Posts Tagged With: restoration
Removing Privet Helps Restore Native Bee Populations
When plants travel the world, they escape the checks and balances of their ancestral ecosystems and can multiply without bounds, competing with native plants for light, nutrients, and water. Do non-native invasive plants also disrupt native bee populations? Jim Hanula, research entomologist with the SRS Insects, Diseases and Invasive Plants unit, explored this question by comparing bee … Continue reading
Categories: Forest Watersheds, Invasive Plants, Restoration, Threats
Tags: Chinese privet, native bees, pollinators, restoration
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Bringing Longleaf Pine Forests Back to Louisiana
Now is a good time to help bring back longleaf pine forests to Louisiana. That was the message for the 186 people who came from across the state and Texas to attend the Longleaf Restoration Field Day held this fall in the aptly named Long Leaf, LA. Longleaf pine forests once covered some 90 million … Continue reading
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