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Northeast Seed Network – A seed strategy for the Northeast U.S.

by Michael Piantedosi, Director of Conservation, Native Plant Trust Over the last few years, an increase in demand for New England native plants has intersected with a well-documented bottleneck in…

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The Plant a Trillion Trees Podcast with Eva Monheim. Excerpt from Episode 143: Matthew Aghai is a dedicated reforestation expert, applied scientist, and executive leader at Mast Reforestation

This is an excerpt from Episode 143 of The Plant A Trillion Trees podcast. With International Society of Arboriculture-certified arborists Eva Monheim and Hal Rosner. Eva: Matthew Aghai is a…

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<em>Trametes versicolor </em> Turkey tail is one of the most common mushrooms in North American woods, 

Mycological Strategies for Surviving

By Paul Stamets

Today, we only have 10-15% of the forest debris that nature has needed to build the food webs for sustainable ecosystems. Widespread deforestation, factory farming, population expansion, industrialization, and concomitant pollution are ongoing threats imperiling our ecosystems and the foundation of our food webs at a time when unprecedented waves of humans walk the Earth needing water, sustenance and shelter. What do I recommend?

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Book Review: Nature’s Best Hope

A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard

Written by Doug Tallamy; Published by Timber Press February 2020
Reviewed by Angela Tanner

As the world hunkers down in the midst of  a pandemic, Doug Tallamy’s latest book Nature’s Best Hope offers, as the title suggest, hope, and we all need a little of that. Drawing topics from his earlier book Bringing Nature Home, Tallamy explains, with examples and statistics, what is happening to the ecological systems around us, and why we should care.

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