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Core Reserves
Posts in this category are about Core Reserves. Their purpose is to maintain fully functional ecosystems with a complete suite of native species. Reserves provide essential habitat for a wide range of plants, mammals, insects, birds, fish, and other organisms. Other creatures need protected habitat to survive and evolve and many can only do so in the absence of human development.
(Adapted from ConservationEconomy.net)
Senate Bill Will Help Protect National Parks Across the Country
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Agricultural Urbanism in Illinois
This piece from Grist looks at Prairie Crossing, a planned community in Illinois that integrates agriculture into its village-like setting.
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New Mexico Wilderness Bill Sent to Senate Floor
The Campaign for America's Wilderness of the Pew Environment Group today applauded the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee for approving The Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks Wilderness Act (S. 1689) and sending it to the full Senate for consideration.
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