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Forsythia Hill Finds: July 2015

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Sunday, July 26, 2015. North American Butterfly Count. The Crozet Team on the hunt. Yesterday thirty nature lovers broke into 3 teams to participate in the annual North American Butterfly Count. For Albemarle County. Taking 4 hours in temps reaching 90 degrees each team covered a different area of the county to record each species of butterfly spotted. I was on the Crozet area team with 12 others. This spider web was hanging over a creek. Most of those participating are Virginia Master Naturalists. Mushr...

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McIntire Botanical Garden Links

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McIntire Botanical Garden Links. Albemarle County, Virginia Piedmont Plant Database. American Public Gardens Association. Blue Ridge Young Birders Club. Charlottesville Area Tree Stewards. Children and Nature Network. Garden Club of Virginia. The Virginia Horticultural Foundation. University of Virginia, School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture Program. Virginia Association of Wetland Professionals. Virginia Master Gardener Association. Virginia Master Naturalists/Rivanna Chapter.

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Necessary Forests: March 2013

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Monday, March 18, 2013. Trees Around Us Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima). Tree of Heaven is the dandelion of the tree world. It arrives unbidden and unwanted; it thrives with zero care; and it’s the devil to get rid it of once it gets its foot in the door. It thrives in the face of pollution, poor soil, drought, salt, heat, neglect, or hand-to-hand combat. And it looses hordes of seeds to be scattered by the wind. Tree of Heaven in Winter. April 1, 2008. A cluster of Ailanthus seeds. The Virginia Dep...

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Necessary Forests: Welcome!

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Monday, April 15, 2013. The blog contains sections from a book I've been working on of the same name. Feel free to ignore it, if you wish. Drafts of several chapters. Are listed on the right hand side of the blog, under "Pages," and. Can be accessed by clicking on the title of the section you want to read. You can skip clicking on the "Necessary Forests" page, since that is the Home page that you're reading right now. Unless noted otherwise in a caption, photos in the blog are my own work.

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Necessary Forests: Introduction

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For me as fish find the water where they breathe and live. Ragged Mountain Natural Area part of area to be lost with new dam. To have views about those things, especially when one of the goals of the book is to encourage us to change. What is the future of forests? What is the future of our forests? Dr Seuss’s The Lorax,. With its story of how deforestation and industrialization make a lovely world unlivable, looks more prescient with each passing day, forty years after its first publication. The changes...

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About The Thomas Jefferson SWCD. The Thomas Jefferson SWCD Board, 2012. The TJSWCD works in partnership with various local, state and federal agencies and organizations. These partnerships allow us to provide comprehensive and efficient natural resource assistance. Being locally directed, Districts are in the position to be able to respond to local concerns. Upon request, our programs and activities can vary to meet the needs of the localities. Board of Directors Elections. Staff since 1986, Alyson holds...

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Ivy Creek Calendar | Ivy Creek Natural Area

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Ivy Creek Natural Area. Click here to open Ivy Creek Natural Area Calendar. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email. Ivy Creek Natural Area.

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Necessary Forests: What Is a Forest?

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What Is a Forest? Our sense of what a thing is. That being the case, it seems only fair to give a sense of the ways I’ve known forests, so you have a perspective in which to place my comments. These are the kinds of moments I remember, in no particular order. Scrambling up steep slopes and sliding down rocky hollows in West Virginia in late fall, the thick layer of shifting oak leaves underfoot as slick and treacherous as ice. Slowly scanning an entire mountainside of stumps at a clearcut in the Cascades...

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Necessary Forests: Why Forests Matter

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For several years now, I’ve been asked to do a presentation on winter tree identification for the local chapter of Tree Stewards. It is an honor to be in the company of a roomful of people who are actually paying to learn more about trees in order to volunteer. My mother. Our mother. Why forests matter: Relationships and our natural context. Why did my mother matter? We could say she produced a range of products- a daily stream of cooked, canned, and baked goods. Clothes she made on her sewing machin...