In this episode of Field Notes, Susan Knight gives us three reasons to look forward to spring. I am a huge fan of winter. But once the snow is clearly on its way out, who doesn’t start thinking about spring? And what says spring better than … skunk cabbage? Actually, there are three plants that come to mind when I think of early spring. Unlike those poor birders who have to wake up at the crack of dawn and contend with hordes of warblers descending on them within a two-week period, botanists can