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Music, dance, shopping and visits with Santa -- theres plenty of holiday cheer to share.

The Clallam Conservation District is taking orders for its annual Native Plant Sale. The district hosts the sale to provide affordable native plants for wildlife habitat enhancement and environmentally friendly landscaping.

It was a Texas-size (and style) celebration, complete with barbecue, as The Native Plant Center at SUNY Westchester Community College in Valhalla marked its 25th anniversary Oct. 1.  The center was founded as the first affiliate of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas. Lynda Johnson Robb and Luci Baines Johnson, daughters of […]

Group works with builders, developers and landowners to rescue native plants that would otherwise be destroyed.

Some of best late-blooming choices for pollinators belong to the daisy and aster

A big box store sold what they thought was the Hawaiian native plant, called Mamaki. However, once the plant was purchased, the plant owner noticed it did not look right.

Watch for crowd-pleasing woodpeckers and wintering birds in Central Texas skies this month.

We hope you had fun celebrating the estuaries with us and our partners for National Estuary Week. The fun continues throughout the year with our upcoming Explore Nature Tillamook Coast

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service last weekend conducted prescribed burns for habitat improvements and ecological health at the Howard Buford Recreation area near Eugene. KEZI-TV reported that the FWS, along with partners Rivers to Ridges and the Friends of Buford Park, worked on the burn; about 30 firefighters burned some 65 acres.

City codes sometimes encourage or condone ornamental shrubs, trees and other plants that are an invasive threat to our native Kansas plants.