Archive for February 2016
Post-Wild Planting Solutions
We may be planting in a post-wild world, but all the things we love about nature and the natural world are still the things we need and should be planting in our landscapes today. Thomas Rainer spoke to a full house Sunday at the Manassas Community Center, delivering a message that spoke right to the…
Read MoreBig Tree Hunt
The College of Natural Resources and Environment at Virginia Tech is the creator of the Virginia Big Tree Program, and the New River Chapter recently took a field trip to learn more about it. The purpose of the program is to find and record the biggest examples of many species of trees in Virginia. Measurements…
Read MoreWetlands
I cringe when the word ”Improve”, or “Improvement” is used about land. It’s applied, of course, to describe the process that adapts land for human uses such as farming or construction. This isn’t improvement in any conventional sense of the word. In the 500 or so year history of European use of American land, the…
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