As I sit here writing this post in my little cottage dorm room, I can’t help but to feel a little bit sad. We have eight more days until...

The sunlight sprinkles through the leaves onto the wetland floor one breezy Fall afternoon, beneath your feet an Arrowhead plant leaf...

Presenting: The 2022 Edition of the “Week in the Life” of a Highlands Field Site (HFS) student! Last year, an Institute of the...

It’s the end of the semester for the Highlands IE students. The trees and surrounding trails have gone from vibrant verdant green to...

Yesterday, I tore out of my first home and ate it. The ivory colored egg I came out of served as a nutritious first meal. I did not know...

September 30th was a bittersweet day for the spruce crew. Time had been a stressor for our last few days of fieldwork; bear hunting...

“Many many years ago, before humans existed on this earth, the sky held only light. There were no people yet, there were only animals....

As we head into Halloween, a time for candy, costumes, and all things spooky, I wanted to highlight one of our favorite mascots for this...

On Thursday morning of August 25, some of us students hopped into the van with Jason for our first day of internship fieldwork. We drove...

Since I arrived in Highlands, I have been taking in everything to the fullest. I spent the first few days wandering around getting lost...

Everybody knows that salamanders are wicked cool. Since you were little, we have all spent hours and hours turning over rocks and logs,...

The seasons are beginning to change here at the biological station, and the air is turning crisp. For the IE students, this means that we...

North Carolina, and particularly the mountains have a long history of fire detection, the oldest pieces of which can still be found...

The students here at Highlands Biological Station arrived a few weeks ago and have been settling into the new landscape, myself included....

Trees and fields of green blur past me as I kick my legs out and soar down the hill, smiling, laughing, and embracing a feeling I have...

Monday & Tuesday After getting some rest over the weekend, IE students start their week by working on individual research projects (ENEC...

With our semester winding to a close and only a month left until final exams, I decided to reflect on our time at the field site so far....

Are you the type of person going to the mountain, taking a picture, stopping at the tourist center, wandering around tourist towns for...

Not much is known about these elusive little owls.

Modern society is fundamentally reliant on plastics whether we want to admit it or not.