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Wage war on weeds, but nurture natives


Wage war on weeds, but nurture natives
Ann Lovejoy
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One silver lining of the pandemic is the great increase in new gardeners. Many are most interested in growing some of their own food, but others are equally intrigued by the idea of supporting bees and other pollinators. At least half the questions I get are about plants gardeners don’t recognize. Is this a keeper? Is it a bad weed? Should I pull it or cut it? Can it go on the compost heap or in the green waste bin, or should it be bagged or burned?
Before you start ripping out plants, it’s wise to learn more about them. How do they grow? Are they aggressive or harmless or beneficial? Which critters depend on them for food and shelter? Do they belong here? There are often several different answers to such questions depending on who’s being consulted. Which answer is “right?” In order to make an informed decision, it’s like they say in the Music Man: “Ya gotta know your territory.” ....

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'It's the Most Natural Thing': A Gitxsan House Group Closes its Territory to Logging


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Gitxsan Elder Shubert Gunanoot has been keeping watch over a gate installed by his house group, Wilp Git’luuhl’um’hetxwit, to control access to the territory.
Photo by Amanda Follett Hosgood.
On a remote forestry road in northern B.C., a family keeps vigil. For the past month, members of Wilp Git’luuhl’um’hetxwit, a house group of the Gitxsan Nation, have spent day and night watching over a gate that they installed here in early May. Its purpose is to control access to their
Lax’yip, or territory, and ensure any logging that happens there is done with consent from the house group. ....

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