A database of wild plants with a focus on ecology and biodiversity. Ecoregions, range maps, habitat and life cycles, native and invasive species.
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For the first time, scientists have distilled the concepts of ecological silviculture into a comprehensive guide, the first truly new textbook on silviculture offered to the global management community in the last 50 years. go.usa.gov/xAFj4
ALT Cover of the new book, Ecological Silviculture: Foundations and Application
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#ResearchHighlight - In #NewYorkCity , @usfs_nrs scientists and their partners analyzed a sample of the city’s 7 million trees and found that they provide services with an annual value of more than $100 million. go.usa.gov/xpeSs
#UrbanNature
ALT New York City skyline viewed from Freshkills Park. Photo by Richard Hallett, USDA Forest Service.
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#ResearchHighlight - Spread of Nonnative Invasive Plant Species in Mature and Disturbed Forests across Landtypes - Native species could help slow the spread of invasive plants in disturbed forests.
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#InvasiveSpecies
ALT Change over time in the ratio of plots with invasive plant species by land type for clear-cut and mature forests. Note how the driest land type (300) has switched places with the moderately mesic land type in the last five years for the clear cuts, whereas this same land type is the least invaded of the mature forests. Image by Cynthia D. Huebner, USDA Forest Service
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It's Tuesday! Let's take a virtual #hike on the #prairie together, discover "10 Reasons to Hike the January Prairie"tuesdaysinthetallgrass.wordp… via @phrelanzer #tuesdaythoughts #nativeplants
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Newly introduced bipartisan legislation would increase the use of #NativePlant materials in U.S. national parks. The Native Plant Species Pilot Program Act would encourage the @NatlParkService to increase the use of #NativePlants on lands it cares for: buff.ly/36F5jfg
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National #OneHealth Awareness Month Day 19 is all about #Soil #health . Without healthy soils, no #plants #animals or #humans have healthy foods #OneHealth - Thanks @USDA_NRCS for the reminder!
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Over a whopping 1,000 acres of #land on Three Top Mountain were recently protected by @BRConservancy near the end of 2019! Thanks to partial funding from @NCCleanwater for making this #conservation possible!
#ncga #ncleg #ncpol #CWMTF
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We’re thrilled that High Quality streams in Pike County, PA are now protected thanks to the support of @OpenSpaceInst @WilliamPennFdn @DCNRnews @DorisDukeFdn and the Land & Water Conservation Fund #LWCF: ow.ly/iAwI50xGMWM
#4states1source
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A little front yard, reprairie suburbia reflection on 2019. #garden #urban #rewild #nature #nativeplants #pollinators #landscapes #design #environment #sustainable #nebraska #prairie
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Learn about little bluestem, one of the "big four" #grasses of the Midwest tallgrass #prairie, from Paul Marcum, INHS botanist: ow.ly/un4U50wJd9t #botany @PrairieResInst @ILplants
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Fascinating article from PennLive.com highlighting a recent Penn State study on the resilience of native plants! The research was done right here in central Pennsylvania at Hartley Wood–part of the The Arboretum at Penn State pennlive.com/life/2019/05/na…
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A nonprofit organization is purchasing ranches in Montana and turning them into conservation land; when they’re done they’ll have protected a landscape the size of Serengeti National Park. In other words, they’re getting it done: npr.org/2019/12/08/780911812…
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Abandoned land might be “an unprecedented opportunity for ecological restoration efforts to help to mitigate a sixth mass #extinction and its consequences for human wellbeing.” @YaleE360
#Rewild #NatureBasedSolutions #NatureNeedsHalf e360.yale.edu/features/could…
