Dr Douglas Tallamy Nature's Best Hope 1 6 2023 (High Resolution video)

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"Nature's Best Hope" with Doug Tallamy talk discussing the importance of native plants for birds, insects, and biodiversity.
Presented by Gallatin Valley Earth Day in partnership with the Sacajawea Audubon Society and the MT Native Plant Society - Valley of the Flowers at the Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture in Bozeman, MT.
“We are at a critical point of losing so many species from local ecosystems that their ability to produce the oxygen, clean water, flood control, pollination, pest control, carbon storage, etc, that is, the ecosystem services that sustain us, will become seriously compromised.” - Doug Tallamy
Mr. Tallamy brings a new approach to conservation that starts in our own yards. By landscaping with native plant communities that sustain food webs and biodiversity, we can enhance local ecosystems rather than degrade them. If we do this in half of the area in America we now have in mowed lawns, we can create a new “Homegrown National Park”-a 20 million acre network of viable habitats that will provide vital corridors connecting the few natural areas that remain. This approach to conservation empowers each of us to play a significant role in the future of the natural world.
Doug is a professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where he has authored 106 research articles and publications and has taught insect related courses for 41 years. His latest books are the New York Times bestseller Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard and The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Tree. His book Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens (2007) was awarded the 2008 silver medal by the Garden Writers’ Association. Tallamy was awarded the Garden Club of America Margaret Douglas Medal for Conservation and the Tom Dodd Jr. Award of Excellence in 2013.

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@aldolagana7126 22 дня назад

Love your passion , it is evident in your presentations and you live it! I just joined homegrownnationalpark because my 1 acre property has dozens of mature oak trees, not sure of the age, but they have to be between 80-100 years old as a gorgeous specimen white oak is easily 80 feet tall with the lowest branches at 40 feet. When I bought this property, I noticed the oaks were the messiest trees I ever came across, between what they dropped year round, there were literally tens of thousands of caterpillars everywhere and what we thought were spider webs were tons and tons of caterpillar webbing as they dropped from the trees, lol. This dry upland property is perfect for oaks as when there is a mess of acorns, there are hundreds of oak seedlings the next or second spring. I doubt many other tree types can tolerate this sterile upland ridge soil, but the oaks revel in it. (Hickories always get topped by the fierce winter winds we get, but the oaks stand tall.)

@davidparker8752 Год назад

Always a great presentation. His delivery gets better and better as time goes on.

@n7terranmaze Год назад

Important links: www.nwf.org/nativeplantfinder/ homegrownnationalpark.org/

@wonderfulpeoplesavingtheearth 7 месяцев назад

wonderful, again. (i saw that he needed some water after talking for an hour; that seems needed to be provided.)

@clvrswine Год назад

"The ecological I.Q. of this country is really low. We don't get that we are living off the life support that healthy ecosystems provide. If we don't support those ecosystems, we don't have that life support," Doug Tallamy said.

@wonderfulpeoplesavingtheearth 7 месяцев назад

a good reply to people who are not supportive or don't get that our local ecosystems support our life might be "it doesn't take a genius, Einstein." jk

@lorrainegatanianhits8331 7 дней назад

Hot take: Your North American ecosystems (on the whole) have actually become healthier since the European settlement and especially since industrialisation. (I can provide the reasoning for this per your request) As an ex eco-radical, this was also difficult for me to accept. Truth is, for some reason we want to believe that everything is going down the drain. It may be another reason for some of us to blame our shortcomings upon. Like the "I cannot succeed, it's my environment that isn't good enough" -type of thing. Once we understand that industrialism (no matter how egotistical and short-sighted it is) has had a net positive effect on nature, we sort of lose our identity of a person that "fights for the voiceless" or that "cares about our life support". Naturally, we fight against this. We're not really in an ecological war, we're in an emotional war. Read Ted Kaczynsky's "Industrial Society and Its Future" Especially his treatise of the power principle perfectly explains this in more detail.

@lorrainegatanianhits8331 7 дней назад

When talking about "non-contributors" and "detractors": Dr. Tallamy seems to be unaware of the fact that the soil food web is by far the largest carbon flux pathway. While specialised herbivory, say through the caterpillar or gallwasp pathway is more efficient, by mass it still does not compare to the nematode (soil) pathway. So, no matter what plant, invasive or not, contributes massively to ecosystem health. It is estimated that 46% of net primary production is allocated belowground. In some ecosystems, such as scrublands it may be as much as 90%. This is notable since belowground heterotrophy is much more efficient than aboveground (decreased transpiration, decreased oxygenation, increased buffering against adverse conditions, among other factors). Furthermore, plant senescence and the associated soil decomposition of plant matter, while very inefficient, is still a massive input by mass into the heterotrophic group. Yes, specialised herbivory is important, but to call non-natives "non-contributors" or even "detractors" is very ignorant or downright dishonest. edit: It's hard for me not to become uncivilised when hearing his pseudoscientific comments of "detracting energy".