December 2020
Webinar: Creating Outdoor Spaces that Connect Children to the Natural World
With rich, inspiring images from around the world, author, educator, and landscape designer Nancy Striniste explains why and how to bring the beauty, adventure, and sustainability of nature play to backyards, schoolyards, churchyards, neighborhood parks, early childhood settings, and more.
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Webinar: The Challenges of Restoring Urban Native Habitat
Patches of native habitat in urban and other degraded areas provide important ecological services. Focusing on Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York and Orange County Great Park in California, where complex habitat was integrated with civic needs, Dr. Handel explores strategies for restoring connections between fragmented and degraded remnant habitats.
Find out more »Webinar: Grassroot Seed Propagation of Native Plants
Growing native plants from seed is a different way to interact with our native flora and an inexpensive way to produce a lot of plants. Be part of a grassroots movement to sow native seeds and increase the number of native plants in the landscape with an abundance of genetically diverse seedlings.
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Webinar: Expanding Biodiversity – Attracting Birds to Your Yard
This presentation emphasizes the importance of planting natives as both a sustainable approach to gardening and an opportunity to attract birds to your yard.
Find out more »February 2021
Webinar: The American Oaks – Diversity, Ecology, and Identification
Familiarity with oaks is vital for anyone looking to garden for biodiversity. Tim will show us how to identify most of the twelve species native to New England and offer guidance on species selection, installation, and maintenance for establishing oak trees in our managed landscapes.
Find out more »Webinar: Regenerative Design – How Living in Agreement with Nature Helps Organizations Thrive
This program will explore how adapting an ecological framework that acknowledges biological limits supports healthy design.
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Webinar: Oak Red-List Project – Main Threats to Oaks and Saving Oaks from Extinction
In this presentation, Dr. Westwood will discuss the economic, ecological, and cultural value of oaks, and will explain the threats each species faces and the conservation efforts underway to save the oaks.
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