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Go Forth and Forage

February 2, 2014
by Beth

No doubt fruit foraging is happening somewhere, somehow in Denver, but I don’t know about it. In the meantime, you can get an edible forest planted in Kansas City, and you can go forage for...

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“How stupid modern packaging is,” says William McDonough

November 19, 2013
by Beth

I read Joel Makower’s interview with William McDonough on Green Biz and felt that I had met a kindred spirit—about packaging, that is. McDonough is a designer, an architect, an entrepreneur...

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Local Food Summit Denver: Cool Ideas, But Where Are the Women?

February 15, 2013
by Beth

The Local Food Summit in Denver, organized by the Mile High Business Alliance, was informative and great fun. But the strongest memory I took from it is of the woman who asked this question at the...

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What’s Coming for Restoration Nation

July 24, 2011
by Beth

I’m working on changing this blog into more of a how-to site that tells people how to do little restoration projects on their own or get involved with groups that do bigger projects. Since...

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Poets for Butterflies

June 8, 2011
by Beth

Mexican poet Homero Aridjis has been working to save Monarch Butterflies for decades. He was one of the people who persuaded the Mexican government to create the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve...

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Outcompeting Weeds in Spruce Gulch

May 17, 2011
by Beth

On Saturday I hiked up Spruce Gulch, off Left Hand Canyon Road in Boulder, to see the weed research and eradication projects being conducted there. Tim Seastedt, a professor of ecology and...

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Angeles National Forest to Be Restored

May 10, 2011
by Beth

The National Forest Foundation will spend the next five years planting trees in an area of Angeles National Forest that was scorched to the dirt. The Station Fire, alleged to be arson, started in...

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How to Green Your Lawn

February 9, 2011
by Beth

I live on a cul-de-sac in a suburb of Denver with a superb view of the mountains and sometimes hellish winds in the winter. My husband and I have lived here almost 15 years, and we’re about to...

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Forest Restoration for Raptors in Veracruz

January 26, 2011
by Beth

“River of Raptors“: The title of this article from the September–October issue of Audubon sends shivers down my spine. And the way they describe the spectacle: “Day after day...

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Ocean Restoration at Sea Turtle, Inc.

January 14, 2011
by Beth

Did you know that oceangoing predators sometimes rip off sea turtle flippers? And that there’s an organization on South Padre Island, Texas, that cares for such injured animals? It’s...

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Women Take Back Food

December 2, 2010
by Beth

I felt very lucky after reading an article in Ms. magazine about women and the various movements to change food production and consumption in the United States. I live in Denver, and there are so...

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Restore California Meadows, Help Farmers

October 18, 2010
by Beth

Yes! magazine’s summer 2010 issue focused on water, and my favorite article therein described the ongoing restoration of the Feather River watershed in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California...

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The Shit Hits the … Engine?

September 16, 2010
by Beth

Actually, this is not a post about sewage. It’s a post about turning trash into energy, as in Back to the Future III, when Doc comes back and starts dumpster diving to power his spaceship. As...

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Restoring People and Buildings

September 2, 2010
by Beth

The Front Range of Colorado (the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains) is a good place to be if you’re green. I was just reading the August edition of the Denver Voice (the monthly newspaper...

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Randomness in Restoration

June 1, 2010
by Beth

Jonathan Chase of Washington University in Saint Louis devised his own experiment to test whether randomness contributed to diversity in restoration projects. He made a bunch of ponds in big metal...

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Can Degraded Sites Host “New” Ecosystems?

May 26, 2010
by Beth

On the “About” page of this site, I made this sarcastic comment: “We can incorporate habitat restoration into most existing uses of lands. (Mountaintop mining…not so much.)”...

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American Chestnuts, Coming Back

May 6, 2010
by Beth

When I think of beloved trees that have disappeared, I don’t think of chestnuts but of elms, which disappeared from the Kansas City area in the 1970s. I grew up on a street shaded by a canopy...

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In Ojai, California, a Long-Term Riparian Vision

May 3, 2010
by Beth

What impressed me most about this project to restore the Ojai watershed (Ojai is east of Santa Barbara) was the number of groups involved and the care that went into planning. The Ojai Valley Green...

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Restoration Tidbits for the Weekend

May 1, 2010
by Beth

From Louisiana, still dealing with the effects of Katrina and other hurricanes: The South Lafourche Levee District is trying several experimental restoration techniques, including partnering with a...

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New York Muck to Restore Jamaica Bay

April 28, 2010
by Beth

Turns out New York has more to offer than skyscrapers—specifically, the muck from the bottom of its harbor that is going to be used to rebuild salt marsh islands in Jamaica Bay, east of Manhattan...

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Back to Natives Restoring Southern California Wildlands

April 19, 2010
by Beth

Southern California is not usually thought of as a hotbed of eco-restoration. Yet a nonprofit in Irvine, California, has discovered how to educate the public about restoration and pay its own way by...

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EPA Likes Restoration by Occidental

April 16, 2010
by Beth

Restoration efforts at a decommissioned Occidental Chemical Corporation site in Whitehall, Michigan, have won the approval of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Efforts began in the mid-1990s...

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Sunken Ship Releases Oil for 50 Years

April 13, 2010
by Beth

It took until 2002, but the Coast Guard, with the help of some recreational scuba divers, finally discovered what was causing seemingly random oil spills along California’s coast near San...

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Constructing Wetlands Strategically

April 12, 2010
by Beth

Courtesy of Conservation Maven comes news of a constructed wetland in the Netherlands that removes pollutants from a river, helps control floods, and produces biomass to generate energy. Sounds like...

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Art as Rewilding in Scotland

April 8, 2010
by Beth

An island is “made” in Loch Crochag where trees can thrive, away from grazers such as deer and sheep.

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