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Earth Day at the Shack

By Cristina Eisenberg / On April 21st, 2011
Three springs ago I visited the Leopold Memorial Reserve—the depleted Wisconsin sand county farm Aldo Leopold bought in 1930 known as the “shack.” In the 1940s he recorded in his field notes that without large predators such as wolves to regulate their numbers, deer were eating aspens and other trees and shrubs to death. I wanted to see whether this was still so.
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Rescuing Fruit Diversity

By Gary Paul Nabhan / On October 23rd, 2008
As mentioned in last week's post, Renewing America’s Food Traditions (RAFT), of which I am founder, learned that at least seventy of the heirloom apples unique to New England that remain are so infrequently featured in nurseries, farmers markets and roadside stands that they can be considered threatened or endangered.
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Rx Fire

By [node:field_contributor] / On August 29th, 2008
If we can't trust nature to do what we want, and if we can't suppress fire, then it seems we ought to do the burning ourselves.  This in fact is what humanity has done since we seized the firestick from Homo erectus.  And it is the third strategy of wildland fire management.
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Folk fire and forest history

By [node:field_contributor] / On July 21st, 2008
Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig, long one of the timber industry's biggest supporters has always had a novel alternative history of forest management in the West.

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