Monday, July 15, 2024

“What this landscape is meant to look like”

Is It Too Late to Save the Southern Grasslands?

"…I recently went looking for the grasslands restoration projects newly established at Radnor Lake State Natural Area and Warner Parks, both in Nashville. With the spring wildflowers already bloomed out and the fall wildflowers still setting buds, July is not the ideal time to visit a grassland restoration site, but I was thinking about the buffalo — that magnificent creature we nearly drove into extinction but saved at the last minute — and I wanted to see some of the many restoration projects that are springing up here as awareness of what this landscape is meant to look like continues to grow..."

Margaret Renkl 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/opinion/saving-southern-grasslands.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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