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Horrible Holly: A Festive Plant Runs Amok

Modern Farmer

22-caliber shells he’d purchased online from a forestry supply store in Colorado. Later, his focus shifted to urban ecology. In a frequently cited 2009 paper in the journal Frontiers in Ecology , a trio of researchers identified more than 139 shade-tolerant plants that have invaded deeply shaded forests.

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Why California Wineries are Embracing Fire to Avoid Disaster

Modern Farmer

They’re well pruned. principal forestry program manager for the Napa County Resource Conservation District , which provides technical and financial support to the community and educates people about being better stewards of the land. “It Grapevines are very resilient,” he says. “I They’re almost like mini-fire breaks on the landscape.”