- “Animals live in nature and nature is somewhere else”
- Nature should be saved where it is but not where people are
- Wilson Robert MacArthur
- The Diversity of Life
- Half of the US’s biodiversity is East of the Mississippi
- Art shifted from religion to nature as nature started disappearing
- Current policies are maligned because they focus on saving small, isolated habitats instead of ecosystems
- “Islands are where species go to die”
- Size and isolation matter
- Forest edges are more dangerous than internal sections
- Isolation gives forests more edges and fewer interiors
- Lawn maintenance uses as much fertilizer as the whole agricultural industry
- 60% of western water usage is for lawn
- We could not tolerate intruders because resources were so constrained
- Tribalism was important to survival
- Humans prefer short grass
- Intergression is where the foreign plant breeds with a near native plant
- Insects are very picky eaters
- Specie diversity is important for ecosystems
- Nestlings typically eat full meals 30-40 times a day
- Meet the needs of the specialists and the generalists will follow
- Think of turf as an area rug, not wall-to-wall carpet
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