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Category: invasive species

Garlic mustard, bittersweet, mile-a-minute vine are just a few of the hundreds of invading, alien “plants out of place” that make it more difficult for native plants and animals to survive.

Posted on January 31, 2018January 31, 2018 awareness birds climate change environmental heroes interior department invasive species native forest restoration post-coal energy renewal river/waterway health U.S. Forest Service

Rx for Appalachia: Non-profit restoring native forests to mountains devastated by coal mining and logging

DURBIN, WEST VIRGINIA—Near the top of Cheat Mountain, bulldozer operator Bill Moore grimaces at the wreckage littering the steep slope below. It looks as if...

Posted on April 7, 2017April 21, 2017 e-cology environmental heroes invasive species

Restoring the mighty chestnut starts with planting the right seed in just the right way

BROOKEVILLE, Md.—From a distance, the neat rows of white markers protruding from the undulating acreage resemble a diminutive Arlington National Cemetery. Up close, however, it’s...

Posted on March 29, 2017November 14, 2017 e-cology environmental heroes invasive species

March of mound ants is Rx for Maryland savanna

BALTIMORE COUNTY—To an amateur archaeologist, the humped hillocks dotting the stretch of fallow pastureland might look like the remnants of burial rituals abandoned long ago...

E-cology Reports

Book cover Greetings Readers, February 10, 2021 by Elizabeth McGowan - Elizabeth McGowan here. Please click to my author website to learn about my journey to publishing Outpedaling ‘The Big C’: My Healing Cycle Across America. You can sign up for my NEW newsletter about riding and writing, and also invite me to be a speaker for your book group, cancer support group or other cherished institution.… Read more >
Ingenuity + money = flourishing enterprises on Central Appalachia coalfields April 24, 2019 by Elizabeth McGowan - Whitesburg, Ky.—If hollowed out minelands and communities of Central Appalachia are to be restored in some fashion, then the vision for the region’s future has to extend beyond infrastructure for federal prisons and natural gas pipelines. That’s what Eric Dixon of the Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center says he hears as he crisscrosses the area. "Communities… Read more >