[…] clean out the understory; the forest can look like it’s slowly dying with no tree saplings available to replace the canopy ones,” he says. “But the real test is when you open up the canopy, either naturally from insects or wind damage, or from a patch cut harvest. Can the deer, at the same […]
[…] Club and Ron Carlton, Andrew duMoulin, and Jennifer Plowden at the Trust for Public Land, as well as input from the Wildlands and Woodlands team members, to guide us in selecting programs and funds for further research. Records for each program were obtained from annual government reports where available and from personal correspondence with […]
[…] has flourished and outpaced supply. Highstead staff collects local seeds from its lands, grows them in its greenhouse, and passes plant plugs onto farmers who grow them for later sale. Photo Credit: Sefra Alexandra Yet most plants sold as “natives” are not grown from local seeds from the ecoregion – a land or water […]
[…] of recycled wood that they plan to sell to raise money for the program. Bird-Friendly New Haven is partnering with Sherwin Williams to buy stain at a discount, she says. Doreen Abubakar, founder and director of CPEN, left, works with Pollinator Pathway volunteers to lay out a site for growing native plants along the […]
[…] educate people about neonics’ danger and environmental harm. The conference, attended by 180 people, was co-led by The Connecticut Audubon Society, Rivers Alliance, and the Connecticut Coalition for Pesticide Reform. Neonics have quickly swept one-fourth of the global market since their launch in 1991. Imidacloprid was the first commercially available neonic used to control […]
[…] and central New England; (5) comfortable with datasets and spreadsheets; ( 6) comfortable working c losely with 1 or 2 other people for long hours. Requirements : valid driver’s license and personal vehicle Supervision : The assistant wi ll be supervised primarily by Highstead’s senior ecologist, but will interact and receive guidance from two […]
[…] Trust (NLT) stepped forward as interested stakeholders in piloting the process for the City of Norwalk. A year in development, the Norwalk Urban Conservation Mapping tool and guide were born. NRWA and NLT used this tool in applying for the NFWF grant to identify the areas in the city that would most benefit from […]
[…] Faison 4 | Brian R. Hall 2 | Barbara C. S. Hansen 5 | Matts Lindbladh 6 | Adriana Marroquin 7 | Sarah A. Truebe 8 1Institute for Liberal Arts andInterdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College,Boston, Massachusetts2Harvard Forest, Harvard University,Petersham, Massachusetts3Department of Geology and Geophysics,University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming4Highstead, Redding, Connecticut5Limnological Research Center, Universityof Minnesota, Minneapolis, […]
[…] important (variables 8 -12 in Table 1) in explaining the ability of an RCP in our study to have protect ed land by late 2009 . To test whether these 12 attributes, or variables , explained a significant amount of the variation in the success of partnerships as measured by their protection of land […]
[…] Appalachian–Great Lakes element. A CKNOWLEDGEMENTS Appreciation is extended to Highstead Director Bill Toomey, as well as Bernard Goffinet, James Lendemer, Cindy Pessoni, Juan Sanchez, and Margaret Shea for their assistance and suggestions. L ITERATURE C ITED Brodo, I.M., S.D. Sharnoff and S. Sharnoff. 2001. Lichens of North America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. […]