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Protecting Parks From Climate Change
Climate change is transforming America’s parks. Warming temperatures increasingly affect plantings, wildlife, and even pest populations, requiring new maintenance regimes and management techniques.
A Lesson Worth Learning
“Kids,” now in their 60s, who grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, remember Fish Creek as a babbling brook running through Blueberry Bog at the city’s southern edge. It was a place
From Grazing To Gazing
Fifty years ago, Forbes and Martha Merkley ran a successful dairy farm just a few minutes east of downtown Flint, Mich. It was a magnificent spread of land, a gently rolling landscape with open meadows, mature forests, wetlands, and ponds.
Purposeful Preservation
A collaborative effort by more than 20 national, regional, and local organizations provided enough labor and funding to restore a 29-acre preserve within the city of Gainesville, Ga.
Going To The Bats
It’s happening on land a few blocks away from Mark Twain’s boyhood home. You’ll see senior citizens strolling, toddlers on tricycles, women walking and talking, teenagers zipping by on scooters, runners keeping step with each other.