City Beneath the Snow

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Porcupines, frogs, shrews, voles and even woolly bear caterpillars all may struggle if the snow that they have long lived with all winter begins to change.

This is bringing increased attention to the cold season, often overlooked in past in North American field studies. And when you lose that insulation, the soil becomes much more susceptible to freezing. Counterintuitively, warmer air temperatures and a lack of snow can actually cause the exposed ground below to become colder. A frozen forest floor spells trouble for animals, even those that hibernate.

We often think of a snowy winter landscape as empty and cold and imagine that the majority of animals are sleeping underground, unaware and unaffected by how much snow is above their heads. Non-hibernating mammals also depend on the soft, unfrozen ground for survival. Voles and shrews, for instance, tunnel away at the layer of soil just below the snow all winter, foraging for nuts and berries and hidden insects in the unfrozen leaf litter beneath the white drifts.

Among the insect life they might encounter are wooly bear caterpillars. After producing a special antifreeze-like chemical known as a cryoprotectant, the wooly bears spend the coldest months buried under snow pack in a state of near dormancy, awaiting the arrival of spring.

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We seen an alcohol abuse counselor and the pilot that flies her around the bush trying to find their way after a brief sexual encounter. These are the inner lives, revealed with care and with skill, the true material of good literature. Marjorie Kowalski Cole put Fairbanks, Alaska, on the literary map.

Her posthumously published story collection The City Beneath the Snow again brings to life the people of that outpost in the boreal forest, besieged by winter for six months out of the year.

Patricia Morrow ForeWord Reviews. Each story in The City Beneath the Snow begs re-reading, whether to absorb the poetic prose once more, or to attempt to resolve an ending that left a question mark.

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