Land trusts thrive despite, and because of, the Great Recession — High Country News The latest gains bring the total area protected by the nation’s land trusts to 47 million acres — more than twice the area covered by all of the national parks in the Lower 48 states. And in recent years, local land [...]

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UPNE – Integrated Landscaping: Lauren Chase-Rowell “A first-rate model for forward thinking landscapers everywhere. It’s time to bring nature back into our lives, and this book shows us how.”—Richard Louv, author, The Nature Principle and Last Child in the Woods “From initial design to plant choice to installation, this book will guide you in the [...]

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Exploring Humanity’s Place In the Journey of the Universe by : Yale Environment 360 …There’s starting to be a sense now that  there’s a moral issue about degradation of the environment, that there is something here that’s larger than us, something that’s given birth to all life forms and sustains us. And if we degrade [...]

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http://www.projectnoah.org Project Noah is a tool to explore and document wildlife and a platform to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere. Become a top spotter! Grab a photograph of an interesting organism and share it with the community. Discover thousands of organisms from around the world. Document nature with your mobile phone. Posted about [...]

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Forest management efforts in Connecticut paying off as American chestnut tree makes a comeback | The Republic via Ct Environmental Headlines Scientists have been working on restoration since the 1930s, and in the last several years, American chestnut specialist Sandy Anagnostakis has been breeding blight-resistant trees by crossing the American species with its Chinese cousin, [...]

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