Northwest wildlife

Lately, Matthew Kauffman has been thinking a lot about spaghetti – wildlife spaghetti lines, that is.Kauffman, who works for the U.S. Geological Survey…

This particular adventure begins with the search for a bird. However, like many discoveries that venture a bit off course, birder Chris Lindsey found something much more interesting: a Western blue pygmy butterfly. The smallest butterfly in North America.

Lee Johnson goes on walks around his sprawling property at least twice a day. His land, just outside Wauconda, is covered by a dense forest. A neighboring…