February 15th is Susan B Anthony Day. On this day, we commemorate the birth of American social reformer Susan Brownell Anthony who played a huge role in the women’s suffrage movement. Through her friendship with another women's right advocate, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, they promoted women's suffrage … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2018
The New Orleans Marsh
I've often wondered how New Orleans got itself into such a predicament as they did with Hurricane Katrina. I knew it had something to do with the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico and filling in the marshlands, but wasn't sure how that played into the disastrous results caused by Katrina in … [Read more...]
Native Plant Demonstration Site Survey
Reference my earlier post entitled Plant Conservation Alliance (PCA) and the reference to one of their strategies called the National Seed Strategy. Another of their strategies is developing the Native Plant Demonstration Site Network. Paraphrased below with permission of the PCA is a brief … [Read more...]
2018 EE Local Grants Teleconference Scheduled by EPA
The following announcement was taken from the EPA Environmental Education website: EPA will host an additional opportunity for potential applicants to review the 2018 EE Local Grants Request for Proposals with an EPA staff person. There will be a teleconference at 1 p.m. ET on February 14, … [Read more...]
Sowing Native Seed
Heather McCargo is the Executive Director of The Wild Seed Project, a Maine 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that educates the public on propagation techniques to encourage increasing native plant populations. She will be one of the speakers at the 24th annual Ecological Landscape Alliance (ELA) … [Read more...]
The American Garden – A Life or Death Situation
As I listened to Neil Diboll give the keynote presentation "The American Garden – A Life or Death Situation" for my Wild Ones chapter's 22nd annual Toward Harmony with Nature Conference, I recalled the article I had read by Elizabeth Kolbert entitled "Turf War." Many of the sentiments she wrote … [Read more...]