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Book Review: "The Hidden Company That Trees Keep"
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." For all you lovers of poetic, deeply felt,...
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Aug 42 min read
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NRCS/EQIP
If you're reading this blog you're at least thinking about taking action on invasive management on your property, and if you're thinking...
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May 41 min read
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Half Acre
Here are before and after pics of a dense honeysuckle, buckthorn, privet, and multiflora rose infestation cleared today by myself and...
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Apr 302 min read
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Coexisting With Big Brown Bears
Not just cuddly little black bears either, but Marsican brown bears (Ursus arctos marsicanus) in the Central Apennines in Italy. These...
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Apr 81 min read
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To Herbicide, or Not To Herbicide....
That Is the Question.... Â (What follows is an abridged version of an article published on the Ecological Landscape Alliance (ELA) ...
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Mar 115 min read
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Random Thoughts On A Beautiful Winter's Day
Seeing as how this is supposedly a blog about invasive management, and seeing as how there are some divergent ideas about whether...
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Feb 164 min read
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Rewilding Part Deux - The Backyard
"To use the world well, to stop wasting it and our time in it, we need to relearn our being in it." Ursula Le Guin I got some feedback on...
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Feb 108 min read
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Speaking Of Invasives....
How about that yard full of invasives - non-native grass, forbs, shrubs, trees - most Americans (and until a few years ago myself) see as...
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Feb 62 min read
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It's Cold Outside
It’s cold. Actually cold, not kinda sorta cold, or just below freezing, or 45º today and 25º tomorrow ‘cold.’ No, it’s cold, ten degrees...
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Feb 13 min read
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Fieldworker’s Casebook: Brush Piles
Brush piles - who wants ‘em? Who needs ‘em? I mean, who wants a bunch of dead sticks in their beautiful woods, yard, or field, right?...
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Jan 185 min read
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Book Review: "The Age of Deer"
I read this book last winter, but it's stuck with me as I've worked with clients on trying to reduce deer pressure on regenerating...
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Jan 101 min read
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Poetry Corner
Lichen Robert Wrigley Not a moss but slower, a kind of lumpenproletariat fungus come in bunches no one keeps an eye on. Grandmother ones,...
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Dec 20, 20241 min read
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On A More Serious Note....
Don't have a lot to say about the paper I've linked to below, except that as far as I'm concerned anyone and everyone with the least...
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Nov 21, 20241 min read
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Thinking It Through
Having plenty of time to think while I’m out in the woods hunting the elusive NNIP (non-native invasive plant, of course…), some...
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Oct 12, 20243 min read
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How to....
Yep, another "how to" post on controlling those pesky, darn, irrepressible invasive plant species. It's fall here in Vermont (or late...
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Sep 15, 20242 min read
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So What?
When I was in university - back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth - there was a question we were trained to ask each other in critical...
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Aug 4, 20243 min read
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Always Learning
For the past two months, while working on a grant driven restoration project for the Winooski Valley Park District, I encountered the...
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Jan 26, 20242 min read
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Just Because....
Tentatively identified using iNaturalist as Dacrymyces chrysospermus, or, Orange Jelly Spot. I found it on a downed cedar while marking...
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Dec 3, 20231 min read
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...And More!
So you're now an invasive management pro, always wearing your work gloves and carrying your Corona folding saw (not an official...
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Nov 9, 20233 min read
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So Now What?
While reading my previous post a thought occurred to me, specifically, that ideology requires practice, or as we used to say in graduate...
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Sep 24, 20234 min read
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