The "Homegrown National Park" movement, a conservation approach based on starting in your yard, provides guidance and an opportunity to do something positive during what seems to me an overwhelmingly negative time.
Douglas Tallamy, in his book, Nature's Best Hope, lists ten steps:
- Shrink the lawn
- Remove invasive species
- Plant keystone genera
- Be generous with your plantings
- Plant for specialist pollinators
- Network with neighbors
- Build a conservation hardscape
- Create caterpillar pupation sites under your trees
- Do not spray or fertilize
- Educate your neighborhood civic association
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