Getting back to nature is learning experience

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: August 1, 2004| Author: PETER MALLER | Copyright information

Getting back to nature is learning experience

By PETER MALLER pmaller@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel

Sunday, August 1, 2004

West Bend -- Ten-year-old Cody Whitaker knelt by a plastic tub filled with water and bugs, trying to decide whether a particular 24- legged specimen darting beneath his magnifying glass was an aquatic sowbug or Dobsonfly.

If a Dobsonfly, it signaled that the critter's home in Silver Creek was relatively unpolluted. But a sowbug, which is...

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