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Gardening for Moths

Chances are you probably haven’t given much thought to building a garden for moths. With the majority of moth species performing their duties at night when most humans are sleeping, it’s no surprise that we tend not to think of them as pollinators, hustling to collect nectar and pollen from our gardens under the cover of darkness. We should begin considering moths, though, when landscaping for wildlife.
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Thinking Big-Picture with Multi-Municipal Planning

While land conservation has always been at the core of the Brandywine Conservancy’s mission, early on we also recognized the importance of complimentary approaches in protecting and conserving the land, water, natural, and cultural resources...

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A Look at Landowner Stewardship

Conserving one’s land is only the first step in a lifelong relationship with landowner stewardship. Late last year, the Conservancy launched a new Landowner Stewardship Program to help its easement landowners with improving the overall ecosystem health of their properties on both a local and...

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Agriculture Spotlight: Spring

Spring is here—the birds are chirping, the spring ephemerals are blooming, and farmers are coming up on one of their busiest seasons of the year. As we have discussed in prior agricultural spotlights, there is no down time in the life of a farmer, and thanks to their hard work over the winter,...

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Piedmont Spotlight: Coastal Plain Forest Communities

Join us as we continue our exploration of the vegetative communities of the Piedmont region of the Eastern United States. In this ongoing series of blogs, we will spotlight specific vegetative communities, define their historic structures, describe the processes that created them, examine past and ongoing threats to their survival, and provide suggestions for long-term, sustainable forest management to help steward them into the future.
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