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AuthorsFeature HomepageFish, Birds and AnimalsForests and PlantsHabitat RestorationLatest NewsLisa John RogersNew YorkNewsRecreation and TourismScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration Efforts5 Reasons to Build a Backyard Frog Pond
-Building a frog pond offers a variety of benefits and is a great way to connect with your local environment.
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Books, Authors, Art and MusicFeature HomepageForests and PlantsHistory and CultureLatest NewsNewsRecreation and TourismScience, Technology, ResearchWinter Wellness Pantry
-As winter sets in, it’s the perfect time to reflect on your year of foraging, plan for the coming seasons, and ensure your pantry is stocked and your health fortified.
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FoodForests and PlantsLatest NewsMichiganNewsRecreation and TourismScience, Technology, ResearchTourismSmashing pumpkins in Traverse City to reduce trash
-As part of a waste diversion effort, more than 3 tons of pumpkin waste are being composted in Traverse City.
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Books, Authors, Art and MusicFeature HomepageFoodForests and PlantsHistory and CultureLatest NewsMichiganNewsRecreation and TourismScience, Technology, ResearchA Foraged Great Lakes Woodland Chai Tea
-As the season shifts and the air chills, the warmth and sustenance that the wild foods of fall offer become evermore appealing, among these appealing concoctions is Woodland Chai Tea.
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Forests and PlantsLatest NewsNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeScience, Technology, ResearchU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsWisconsinEnvironmental groups and industry at odds over plan to conserve old-growth forests
-Environmentalists say the plan doesn’t go far enough while industry says no action is needed.
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AuthorsFeature HomepageFoodForests and PlantsHistory and CultureIndigenous CommunitiesLatest NewsMinnesotaNewsRecreation and TourismScience, Technology, ResearchStaci Lola DrouillardWater Quality and Restoration EffortsNibi Chronicles: The Gift of Manoomin
-The rice harvest — manoominike — has officially started across Ojibwe country. Columnist Staci Lola Drouillard talks with her cousin about harvesting and processing wild rice, as well as the importance of water quality for growing “the good berry.”
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CollaborationFish, Birds and AnimalsForests and PlantsLatest NewsMichiganNewsOhioResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchPoints North: The Last to Leave
-A researcher in Ohio was surrounded by hundreds of dead ash trees. They had been wiped out by the emerald ash borer. But in that same forest, she found a lone tree thriving. Could this be the key to saving ash from extinction?
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Feature HomepageFoodForests and PlantsHistory and CultureLatest NewsNewsRecreation and TourismScience, Technology, ResearchForaged Fruit and Nuts: Wild Apples & Abundant Acorns
-Autumn brings with it a bounty of fruits and nuts that often go unnoticed in our modern culinary landscape. Among the most abundant and overlooked are acorns and wild apples.
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Points North: A Natural Ending
-Peter Quakenbush’s dream is to create a conservation burial forest – a place that would both preserve the woods and give people the option to be buried in nature. But not everyone is on board with that idea.
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Advocates urge Hogsett to save Indy’s at-risk urban forests
-The proposed 2025 city budget lacks funding to protect urban forests.
