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• SEX AND THE SINGLE FRESHWATER MUSSEL 

  PUT YOURSELF IN THE PLACE of a freshwater mussel. There you sit, wedged into the gravel of an Alabama river, rhythmically extending and contracting...

  Alabama Heritage, 04/01/06 by Davenport, L J · More from publication

• BIRDING DAUPHIN ISLAND 

  WE MIGRATED SOUTH that blustery April day, flying down the highways in our minivans and SUVs, hoping to collide with a more traditionally winged...

  Alabama Heritage, 10/01/05 by Davenport, L J · More from publication

• ERGOT (ON RYE) 

  A FRIEND BROUGHT ME A SMALL TIN box from a flea market in southwestern Alabama. It immediately brought to mind funky dance steps, hippie acid...

  Alabama Heritage, 07/01/05 by Davenport, L J · More from publication

• NOM DE BLOOM: THE GARDENIA STORY 

  GARDENIAS GRACE MANY ALABAMA gardens, their waxy white blooms wafting a most delectable summer fragrance. But the formal naming of this shrub by...

  Alabama Heritage, 04/01/05 by Davenport, L J · More from publication

• CEDAR APPLE RUST 

  ONE DRIZZLY SPRING DAY, while wriggling through a thicket in Franklin County, I came face to face with a most horrible sight: an entire cedar tree...

  Alabama Heritage, 01/01/05 by Davenport, L J · More from publication

• Fishes and macroinvertebrates of the upper Cahaba River: a three-year study 

  ABSTRACT ABSTRACT In order to assess their degree of impairment, fish and macroinvertebrate communities were examined at fifteen sites on the...

  Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science, 01/01/05 by L.J. Davenport · More from publication

• SOLDIER FISH, THE 

  LEGEND HAS IT THAT ON THE EVE of a particular Civil War battle, one army stared nervously across a narrow creek at the other. Obviously, the morrow...

  Alabama Heritage, 07/01/04 by Davenport, L J · More from publication

• OPOSSUMS 

  EARLY ONE SUNDAY MORNING-too early, in fact-I wakened to an ominous knock at the door. I opened it to find a tearful woman standing there clutching...

  Alabama Heritage, 04/01/04 by Davenport, L J · More from publication

• BOLAS SPIDERS 

  I'M CHARLES E. HUTCHINSON'S biggest fan. Now, I never met the guy, nor know anything about him. But he was the first to see, describe, and...

  Alabama Heritage, 01/01/04 by Davenport, L J · More from publication

• FAIRY SHRIMPS (AND VERNAL POOLS) 

  WE HUMANS DEMAND permanence-in the buildings we build, in the boundary lines we draw, in the relationships we hold. Everything in its place...

  Alabama Heritage, 10/01/03 by Davenport, L J · More from publication