When the UTK Compost Coalition was founded in 2021, its primary goal was to increase compost access in dorms and across campus. However, in the last year, the club has
A team of volunteers from Microsoft and Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy recently worked on a project to install deer enclosure fences at JK Black Oak Wildlife Sanctuary in Lucketts.
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Jerry Erstrom, of Vale, was known as the weed man both locally and at the state level. Erstrom recently died, a victim of COVID-19, but will be remembered for his battle to control weeds â particularly in the rangeland, when he worked for the Bureau of Land Management and after he retired.
Gary Page, Malheur County weed inspector, said Erstrom along with former county commissioner John Bishop were instrumental in the re-organization of the Malheur County Weed Advisory Board in 1997. The pair lobbied the County Court to reestablish the advisory board which had lapsed for several decades, and Erstrom pushed for the creation of a county department.
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Careful monitoring and up-front investment are necessary to ensure reforestation efforts yield benefits for communities and biodiversity
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In Senegal’s Siné-Saloum and Casamance deltas, green seedlings poke through the water’s surface, standing on end like string beans reaching to the sky. There, in spindly clusters and lines, is the next generation of mangroves: six native species selected, seed collected from mature groves, then planted directly, or sometimes grown first in nurseries.
Some villagers say that without reforestation, they would have left their ancestor’s lands. Mangroves, reaching down into the salty water, provide habitat for fish and oysters that support local diets and livelihoods. They buffer inland communities from storms. But they also sequester more carbon than any other ecosystem; their potential for carbon sequestration may be up to 50 times greater than some tropical forests.