Please help us reduce our mailing and printing costs by renewing your AVIS membership online before the renewal notices are mailed in March. AVIS needs your support to continue its essential work. We rely on membership dues to help with the day-to-day maintenance of the reservations. Volunteers are the backbone of our organization—they are our organization. Memberships and donations help […]
Life Beneath the Ice and Snow: Turtles in Winter
From the Outside Story series from Northern Woodlands Magazine. Written by Loren Merrill. Illustration by Adelaide Tyrol. For hundreds of years, people believed that, come autumn, barn swallows would dive under the surface of ponds and lakes, swim to the bottom, and bury themselves in the mud for the winter. We now know better – swallows, along with thousands of […]