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Cross-pollinated Connecticut Chestnut Comeback

Duncan Brine — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:49:08 +0000

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, which carries a resistant gene.
  
  Some 200 of those blight-resistant seedlings were planted on 2.5 acres at Belding in 2009, and while mortality is eventually expected to reach 50 percent due to die-off from natural competition, Seymour said the vast majority of the trees are thriving.
- Eventually, the native trees will reach maturity and begin cross-pollinating with the newly planted blight-resistant strain, creating seedlings genetically similar to trees native to the site that also carry genes resistant to blight.

New England Moves to Preserve a More Recent Heritage

Duncan Brine — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:44:47 +0000

New England Moves to Preserve a More Recent Heritage – NYTimes.com
- While their creations might seem out of place here, they match the ideals of Thoreau, said Alexander Gorlin, an architect whose book with the photographer Geoffrey Gross, “Tomorrow’s Houses: New England Modernism,” came out this year.
  
  Mr. Gorlin said the plain, functional style of modernism, meant to blend into the landscape, echoed Thoreau’s desire to live simply and in harmony with nature. Gropius, he added, was inspired by another early New England thinker, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Is either contemporary or traditional architecture inherently more suitable for rural landscape?

Brine home in Brine Garden

“Peacefulness and oldness…” | A poignant profile of the adirondacks | NYTimes.com

Duncan Brine — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 02:00:46 +0000

Fearing Climate Change’s Effects on the Adirondacks – NYTimes.com
By LISA W. FODERARO
A full moon rising over Osgood Pond near Paul Smiths, N.Y. More Photos »
- Mr. Jenkins, who is the author of the book “Climate Change in the Adirondacks: The Path to Sustainability,” spends much of his time on the water and in the woods, documenting the ecosystem with a notebook and a camera. He thus brings an unusual perspective to the scene. Where a casual observer might behold diversity and continuity, he projects decades into the future and finds absence and loss.

The Garden Conservancy’s Open Day at the Brine Garden | Oct. 8

Duncan Brine — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:03:48 +0000

The Garden Conservancy’s Open Day at the Brine Garden | Garden Large
- The Garden Conservancy opens the gates of America‘s finest private gardens by inviting the public to visit. The Conservancy’s Open Days Program encourages appreciation of “gardens as living works of art.”
  
  © gardenlarge
  
  The Brine Garden – Duncan & Julia Brine
  
  2011 Open Day
  Saturday, October 8, from 12pm to 6pm, rain or shine
  Pawling, NY

Hudson Valley Food Lovers Festival | We’re exhibiting– Say Hello

Duncan Brine — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:52:26 +0000

Friends of the Farmer | Hudson Valley Food Lovers Festival | FARM ON!
- “FRIENDS OF THE FARMER FESTIVAL”
  for Hudson Valley Food Lovers
  
  Taste the best of the Hudson Valley farm movement.
  July 30th, 2011 | 11am-11pm
  Copake Lake, NY

Anne Raver NY Times | Reveals Brine Garden as Favorite | The Horticultural Society of New York

Duncan Brine — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:34:38 +0000

Facebook Brine Garden page
- Monday: Anne Raver talk on her FAVES at the Horticultural Society “closer to home, Duncan and Julia Brine, who have created six acres of wild, painterly gardens in Pawling, NY.? “
  
  The Horticultural Society of New York
  
  www.hsny.org
  
  April 11, 2011

Anne’s Favorites:

Bill Noble and Jim Tatum in their rolling valley in Norwich, VT;

Dan Hinkley and Robert Jones at Windcliff, overlooking the Puget Sound in Indianola, WA;

Dennis and Cheryl Kamera on nearby Whidbey Island;

and closer to home, Duncan and Julia Brine, who have created six acres of wild, painterly gardens in Pawling, NY

“Gardens of the Hudson Valley” at Rocky Hills Lecture Series

Julia Brine — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:03:51 +0000

The Brine Garden is a chapter of this beautiful new book.

“The line between art and nature has never seemed so blurred as it is in the Brine Garden.”
— Gardens of the Hudson Valley
Nancy Berner and Susan Lowry

Gardens of the Hudson Valley, by co-writers Susan Lowry and Nancy Berner, is the topic of this spring 2011 Rocky Hills Lecture. Photography of some of the valley’s iconic and historic gardens, both public and private, by Sue Daley and Steve Gross, will be featured.

Rocky Hills, the garden of Henriette and William Suhr, is a Garden Conservancy Preservation Project in Mount Kisco, New York. The Rocky Hills Lecture Series is presented by the Friends of Rocky Hills.

Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
Chappaqua Public Library
195 South Greeley Avenue
Chappaqua, New York
Free admission

Charles A. Birnbaum: On Olana and the Upcoming Symposium

Duncan Brine — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:35:08 +0000

Charles A. Birnbaum: The Value of View
- April 16, 2011 symposium at Olana, Framing the Viewshed: The Transformative Power of Art and Landscape in the Hudson Valley.

Frederic Edwin Church: Twilight in the Wilderness (1860) Cleveland Museum of Art

For more information please check out our Brine Garden page

FrOGS Annual Great Swamp Celebration and Art Show, Pawling, NY

Julia Brine — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:00:53 +0000

A wonderful community experience:

October 23, 11am-5pm and October 24, 1pm-4pm, at the Frances Ryan Thomas Memorial Center of Christ Church on Quaker Hill in Pawling, NY.

Join the Brines and other FrOGS to celebrate the diverse beauty of our local, majestic wetland. Enjoy work by local artists and artisans, educational displays, food, and activities.

FrOGS (Friends of the Great Swamp) is an active voice for the protection of the Great Swamp, one of the largest freshwater wetlands in New York State.

New York City: A Diverse Ecological Hot Spot? Rich in Nature?

Duncan Brine — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:25:14 +0000

How Did New York City Become a Diverse Ecological Hot Spot? — New York Magazine – Annotated
- Incredibly, scientists are starting to view New York as an ecological hot spot—more diverse and richer in nature than the suburbs and rural counties that surround it.
- “People think of the rural as this pristine, untouched place, when it’s actually highly controlled and highly engineered space,” says Nette Compton, a senior project manager at the Parks Department. “The fact is urban areas are not as well controlled. They are messy. There is diversity.”