• Natural Landscape

    Review: ‘The Light Pirate’ by Lily Brooks-Dalton

    For December’s #ReadWithMC select, visitors curled up with Lily Brooks-Dalton’s The Light-weight Pirate, a well timed dystopian tale on weather modify and its devastating effects on the earth and the folks struggling to survive there. Informed in 4 parts—power, h2o, gentle, and time—it follows a Floridian relatives as they put together for an approaching hurricane in a landscape currently wrecked by damaging weather conditions styles and increasing sea stages.  Reminiscent of Delia Owens’ In which the Crawdads Sing, readers particularly liked Brooks-Dalton’s vivid producing type, which @abookandadog states “was lovely and I was riveted from get started to end.” They increase, “The character building felt so serious, I *nearly* cried…

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  • Landscaping

    Landscaping options help lure, protect birds

    The Mature Native motion is turning out to be far more and far more accepted by home/land house owners who appreciate the presents of birds and wildlife that arrive with purely natural planting. With winter’s birds flocking to our chook feeders and using shelter in wooded environment, why not take the time now to take into account the birds in your spring landscaping strategies? A several compact conifers and/or cone/seed-bearers, this kind of as Juniper, Mountain ash, Serviceberry, Hawthorn, Elderberry, Rocky Mountain maple, Alder, Sumac — and willows and shrubs, which include things like Snowberry, raspberry, currant, honeysuckle, Oregon grape, Thimbleberry, dewberry and Kinnikinnick — are just the starting of…

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  • Natural Landscape

    Cumulative effects of human footprint, natural features and predation risk best predict seasonal resource selection by white-tailed deer

    Eisner, R., Seabrook, L. M. & McAlpine, C. A. Are changes in global oil production influencing the rate of deforestation and biodiversity loss?. Biol. Conserv. 196, 147–155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2016.02.017 (2016). Article  Google Scholar  Fahrig, L. Effects of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 34, 487–515. https://doi.org/10.1146/132419 (2003). Article  Google Scholar  Pfeifer, M. et al. Creation of forest edges has a global impact on forest vertebrates. Nature 551, 187–191. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature24457 (2017). Article  ADS  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  Tilman, D., May, R., Lehman, C. & Nowak, M. Habitat destruction and the extinction debt. Nature 371, 65–66. https://doi.org/10.1038/371065a0 (1994). Article  ADS  Google Scholar  Fisher, J. T. & Burton, C.…

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  • Art Home Design

    ACDF’s unveils Apple Tree House design in rural Quebec: ‘A fluid work of art’ | News

    &#13 anchor&#13 &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13 Impression: © Adrien Williams &#13 &#13 &#13 Canadian studio ACDF Architecture has shared shots of their recent residential undertaking in the country’s greatly-forested Lanaudière area. Deep in the heart of rural Quebec, the residence was built for an urbanite family members looking for an ultra-fashionable bucolic respite positioned on a 250,000-sq.-foot plot with home to connect with every other and commune with mother nature. Graphic: © Adrien Williams The challenge was informed by the client’s deeply-felt link to a childhood apple tree and relied on a somewhat easy mixture of glass and wood boxes that household diverse capabilities and are centered about a…

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  • Landscape Design

    New Year, New Yard: 12 Steps to Updating Your Landscaping This Year | Gardening Tips and How-To Garden Guides

    As another new year unfolds, have you made any resolutions? Maybe it’s exercising more or eating healthier, but what about your yard? Montour County, Pa., Master Gardener and webinar presenter Carol Burke is feeding monarch butterflies, which are among the pollinators she strives to attract by appropriate landscape planning. Lori Voll-Wallace | Penn State Extension Now’s the time to think ahead for projects that will bring joy to your landscape this year. That’s the message of a webinar presented by Carol Burke, a Penn State master gardener from Montour County with a knack for landscape design and plenty of related helpful hints to share. If you’ve already resolved to update…

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  • Natural Landscape

    Environmental groups honor Patrick Leahy’s contributions to Vermont’s natural landscape

    U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, who is retiring at the conclusion of this time period, is honored for his operate on the natural environment by the Vermont Normal Methods Council at an celebration at Shelburne Farms in Shelburne on Thursday, Oct. 6. Picture by Glenn Russell/VTDigger SHELBURNE — Prior to a group of close to 400 environmental advocates, U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., recalled how he after upset senators from the Midwest when he snuck Lake Champlain on to the record of Excellent Lakes, a designation that lasted less than a month.  The group laughed and applauded. “I acquired some grief from other individuals all around the place,” he mentioned.  Speakers…

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