The real truth about lawns

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1FLQF6Tvo7/

"The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumour of sadness and change."

E.B. White, Charlotte's Web










   

4 sparrow marsh restoration

Back in its heyday, a freat wilsons snipe spot

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" Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot,the only home we've ever known"

                                                                            --Carl Sagan

Chicago Building Where Nearly 1,000 Birds Died in One Night Last Fall Installs Bird-Safe Window Film | Smithsonian

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/chicago-building-where-nearly-1000-birds-died-in-one-night-last-fall-installs-bird-safe-window-film-180984755/

Finally after a long time, a notorious bird strike deathtrap gets remedied on a renown flyway Lake Michigan shoreline.

"The one who plants trees knowing that he or she will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life."

— Rabindranath Tagore



   

How to make a bug hotel in your backyard as insect populations decline - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/04/23/how-make-bug-hotel-insect-decline-bees/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzEzODQ0ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzE1MjI3MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MTM4NDQ4MDAsImp0aSI6ImFjMzdlMjlmLWM5MTgtNDdiNC04ZTM2LTYyYTlhYmU3NzVlOCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9jbGltYXRlLWVudmlyb25tZW50LzIwMjQvMDQvMjMvaG93LW1ha2UtYnVnLWhvdGVsLWluc2VjdC1kZWNsaW5lLWJlZXMvIn0.oB1VierpuiOColnmL5TfibPI34WwnbBYpfH9FQxjFns&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3krMrR0F8A__srDc5B9rwffj1hO3GjHXAr5mxPHZRY-uhg3X1z3i66ezg_aem_AeCB0J2Mg1kP4u9oZNxzOO3NZhcrz2SsZvpFdzpaa4N6vcus-HkCv9vIYrQvCCM47__2BQDEzfHvrfBRKibEIMt8

Bald eagles residents in Staten. Island

https://nypost.com/2023/09/23/bald-eagle-population-soars-in-nyc/?fbclid=IwAR1MY2Sxmtf3uRVkKaBNpR0cLMJHCRVyWSo2lu646SKJsTGBdQ0sTtelPrk

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished" --Lao Tzu

Horseshoe crabs get new protections thanks to valuable blue blood – NBC New York

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/blue-blood-from-horseshoe-crabs-is-needed-for-medicine-but-a-declining-bird-relies-on-crabs-to-eat/4550837/?_osource=SocialFlowFB_NYBrand&fbclid=IwAR2oOpq6iLlOtPQnXLbYhdovcJ2MylrlI_Cjtq9wCkfR81BSpuh7wenQ9PU

Amid the Sprawl, a Long Island Prairie Makes a Quiet Comeback - Yale E360

https://e360.yale.edu/features/hempstead-plains-long-island-wildlife-conservation-gardens

The tragedy of habitat loss because of over development. Imagine the beauty and wildlife of a vast grassland?