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Judy Isacoff

Writer, naturalist, educator, and garden designer Judy Isacoff has published in regional monthlies, weeklies and dailies as well as professional journals in the field of environmental education. She is a columnist for the Battery Park City, New York Broadsheet Daily and The Broadsheet, and for five years contributed a weekly astronomy column to The Berkshire Eagle. A leader in nature study and curriculum-based gardening at schools in urban and rural settings, Isacoff is passionate about cultivating the sense of wonder through her teaching and writing. Her website: NaturesTurn.org

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EYES TO THE SKY: Awe-inspiring Milky Way nights. Summer stars set

We are like the starry-eyed child in the picture above.
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NATURE’S TURN: Moose — bigger than a horse and smaller than an elephant

The moose is the largest species of deer in the world and among the largest land mammals in the world.
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EYES TO THE SKY: Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS visits Earth’s skies amidst setting summer stars

"The Voyager 1 spacecraft took 35 years to leave the sun’s magnetic influence. It’s traveling one million miles each day. At that speed, it will take 300 years to reach the inner layer of the Oort Cloud. Then, it will take 30,000 years to get through it all. It’s that thick! This is where some comets come from."
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NATURE’S TURN: Feeding the living world around us — late summer garden and field surprises

After four years of growing swamp milkweed, two new milkweed-eating insects arrived a few weeks ago.
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EYES TO THE SKY: Brilliant planet Venus follows sunset. Brightest star, Sirius, precedes sunrise.

Even as we adapt to changing conditions on Earth, the heavenly bodies remain constant.
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NATURE’S TURN: Sleeping bees awaken, Fritillary pollinator of the month

While concerned about the swallowtails, I am heartened by a few Monarch butterflies sailing over the landscape and am reminded to look for a chrysalis where I recently observed a monarch caterpillar.
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EYES TO THE SKY: Arcturus and Vega, evening’s brightest stars. Little brown bat delights. Perseid Meteor Shower peaks overnight 11th – 12th

The Perseid Meteor Shower, the most anticipated and prolific meteor event of the year, is predicted to peak the night of August 11 into dawn August 12.
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NATURE’S TURN: Painted Mountain corn for a changing climate

Inspired to share the adventure of cultivating corn in a small garden—and to make a plan to grow it next spring—I send this story to you.
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EYES TO THE SKY: Stargazing supreme — dark skies, warm nights

Crucial to the survival of our view to the cosmos is working together to significantly reduce light pollution.
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NATURE’S TURN: North America’s Eastern Phoebe — reliable tenant, engaging neighbor

Phoebes find the structures we build adaptable to their own need for shelter while raising young. In turn, our lives are enriched by observing their activities and hearing their “fee bee” vocalizations in our midst.
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EYES TO THE SKY: Here, in the Milky Way galaxy, fireflies flash, barred owls hoot, Scorpion’s red heart beguiles

It is Summer Solstice time in Earth’s northern hemisphere. The Sun, the star at the center of our solar system, is with us most of our waking hours.
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NATURE’S TURN: Town of Mount Washington’s ring of summits — two State Forest Reserves high on list of ‘Last Great Places’

The Mount Washington Forest Reserve Area is one of eight large Forest Reserves in the Commonwealth.
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EYES TO THE SKY: Leo the Lion’s graceful springtime stride

“Darkness is as essential to our biological welfare, to our internal clockwork, as light itself.” — Verlyn Klinkenborg
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NATURE’S TURN: Re-awakening wonder, instinct to protect the natural world

When I first studied wild foods, I was introduced to a skunk cabbage legend about John Cage, the composer, who had lived in a nearby town.
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EYES TO THE SKY: Planet Jupiter, winter stars setting. Eclipse reflection

It was an afternoon like no other: High in the blue sky, the dark sphere of Moon slowly rolled into and over the round, golden Sun.
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EYES TO THE SKY: Great North American Eclipse, April 8, 2024 (Part Two — Special Edition)

On eclipse day, from 2 to 4 p.m., Great Barrington’s Mason Public Library is hosting amateur astronomer Rick Costello, four telescopes with shielded optics in tow.
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