My first-floor classroom (I’m a high school teacher) windows look out on a courtyard in the middle of our school building. I moved down here from a second-floor outward-facing classroom a couple of ...

Before European settlement, when 95% of Ohio was blanketed in forests, red-shouldered hawks were common. But rampant deforestation that left only 10% of the state tree-covered by the early 1900s sent ...