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Tallamy’s, Bringing Nature Home– the book everyone is talking about

November 10th, 2009 · No Comments

http://www.bringingnaturehome.net/native-gardening

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Exemplary Biodiversity Habitat Mapping in Dutchess County, NY by Hudsonia

May 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Erik Kiviat’s Hudsonia is an important resource for environmental research and education in the Hudson Valley.
Get an eyeful of his perspective here.
http://www.townofdover.us/HudsoniaPresentation.pdf

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Insect “Solution” Stimulates Invasive Plant

September 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Public Affairs: Press Release >

September 3, 2008

Biocontrol agents, such as insects, are often released outside of their native ranges to control invasive plants. But scientists in Montana have found that through complex community interactions among deer mice, native plants and seeds, the presence of an introduced fly [...]

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Ecologist and Marine Biologist Not Worried about Invasives

September 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Friendly Invaders – NYTimes.com

By CARL ZIMMER

There are more naturalized invasive plant species in New Zealand than native species.
It sounds like the makings of an ecological disaster: an epidemic of invasive species that wipes out the delicate native species in its path. But in a paper published in August in The Proceedings of the National Academy [...]

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A Native Romance by a lovely lady

September 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Guest Editorial : Giving Up the Garden, by Carleen Madigan Perkins, Storey Publishing : Terrain.org

At a recent gardening conference, I met William Cullina, the head propagator for the New England Wild Flower Society and the author of several books about gardening with native plants. When I told [...]

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