Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category
Native habitats and evolving lawn and landscape cultures
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Lawn Culture
Everyone loves a beautiful, freshly cut green lawn, well, almost everyone. More and more people are moving away from the traditional large grass covered areas, opting instead to use more trees, shrubs, and other plants, and they are “going native” with the varieties.
I suspect that this trend will continue, as water [...]
August 30, 2009
Tags: Add new tag, Landscapes, Lawns, Native habitats, Native landscapes Posted in: Backyard habitat, Backyard habitat information, Biodiversity, Biodiversity and pest control, Environment, Exotic plants, Habitat, Habitat Management, Invasive plants, Landscapes, Lawns, Native habitat, Native landscapes, Native plants, Non native plants, Preserving biodiversity, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife habitat 
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Environmental Services | Preserving Biodiversity
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Environmental Services | Preserving Biodiversity
One of the often overlooked areas of vegetation management, and it’s related environmental services, is it’s role in preserving the environment through preserving biodiversity. The biggest threat to our environment is the loss of native species, to species which are not native to our area. Good vegetation management practices help [...]
September 28, 2008
Tags: Biodiversity Services, Environmental services, Green services, Preserving biodiversity, Vegetation management Posted in: Biodiversity, Biodiversity Services, Ecology, Environment, Environmental services, Exotic Vegetation Management, Green services, Infrastructure, Infrastructure management, Infrastructure services, Infrastucture, Preserving biodiversity, Vegetation management No Comments
Infrastructure Services | Protecting Infrastructure
Infrastructure Services | Protecting Infrastructure
What is infrastructure?
The Infrastructure is what we rely on to get the things we need to carry on business and daily life. It includes our transportation lines such as roadways, waterways, water supply, and rail lines, our industrial sites such as tank farms, and pole yards, and our utility lines, such [...]
September 28, 2008
Tags: Biodiversity Services, Infrastructure, Infrastructure management, Infrastructure services, Protecting infrastructure, Vegetation management Posted in: Biodiversity Services, Environment, Infrastructure management, Infrastructure services, Infrastucture, Preserving biodiversity, Vegetation management No Comments
Value of Natural Biodiversity Services
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Biodiversity can seem to be a complicated issue. The seeming complexity can be furthered by oversimplification leading to misunderstanding at one point, and the exaggeration of the complexity at another. Nowhere is this more evident than in the valuation of biodiversity services.
Biodiversity services, that is, natural biodiversity services as opposed to human efforts to [...]
September 28, 2008
Tags: Biodiversity Services, Environmental services, Green services, Natural biodiversity services, Preserving biodiversity, Valuing biodiversity services Posted in: Biodiversity Services, Biodiversity and pest control, Ecology, Environment, Environmental services, Exotic Vegetation Management, Exotic plant migration, Exotic plants, Green services, Invasive species, Native habitat, Natural biodiversity services, Nature, Pest control, Preserving biodiversity, Valuing biodiversity services One Comment
Biodiversity Services
Biodiversity Services
Preserving biodiversity may be the major ecological and environmental issue of this century. Whether it is in the worlds rainforest regions, the Pacific Islands, Europe, Asia, Africa, or right here on the North American continent, in East Texas. Any species that cannot continue to exist due to fire, chainsaw, or even other, invasive plants, [...]
September 21, 2008
Tags: Biodiversity, Biodiversity Services, Ecology, Environment, Environmental services, Green services Posted in: Biodiversity, Biodiversity Services, Ecology, Environment, Environmental services, Green services, Habitat Management, Non native plants One Comment
Backyard Habitat Help
Backyard Habitat Help
Backyard habitats can be great for the environment, for the entertainment and education of children and adults, for the control of unwanted insect predators like mosquitoes, and for many other less tangible reasons.
Most of the work can be done by the motivated homeowner, but sometimes a little help is needed. we [...]
September 15, 2008
Tags: Backyard habitat help, Backyard habitat information, Education, Environment, Nature, Wildlife Posted in: Backyard habitat, Backyard habitat help, Backyard habitat information, Education, Environment, Habitat, Habitat Management, Nature, Pests, Uncategorized, Wildlife No Comments