Outdoors

New travel books: Beach, road trip, kids outdoors

25 May 2012

A field guide for beaches, a road trip guide and a couple of books for city-dwellers looking to get outdoors with kids offer inspiration and information for planning adventures this season.

New books for travel and outdoors look at beaches, road trips, getting outside with kids

25 May 2012

NEW YORK, N.Y. - A field guide for beaches, a road trip guide and a couple of books for city-dwellers looking to get outdoors with kids offer inspiration and information for planning adventures this season.

Outdoors: These shrews are deadly in their short lives

25 May 2012

If it werenand#8217;t dead, we probably never would have seen it. While checking our mist nets at the Auburn Sportsmanand#8217;s Club bird-banding station last week, the Ecotariumand#8217;s Theresa Walcott and I came across the only venomous mammal in Massachusetts. We picked it up very carefully.