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Blue Bracelet
Open Space Restoration combines nature with fiction, so to get the most out of each writing here is a brief trackline for this story: Grackles are a courageous bird when it comes to chasing raptors, who could easily turn tail and eat them. At this time John Wurm is showing good progress in [...] -
Cows, Global Warming and the Art of Moodoo Economics
It is not often that I get a chance to commune with domesticated nature, but during the last few weeks I have been working at a 150 acre cattle ranch removing exotic vegetation out in Okeechobee County. An unexplainable sense of guilt waifs towards me as I drive into the methane gas abyss. Circumventing [...] -
Cabbage Palm – Nature’s Resolve Revisited
Dr. Tom Poulson writes in response to an earlier post titled, Nature’s Resolve Discovered-The Real Heart of the Cabbage Palm. “The cabbage palm with almost all of its lower trunk missing is interesting. Unlike other trees, like oaks, palms grow only from the tip so, if you harvest the “heart” of the palm [...] -
Hitching a Ride on a Cabbage Palm
Cabbage Palmetto, Cabbage Palm, Swamp Cabbage, Sabal Palm are all the same name for Florida’s and South Carolina’s State Tree. Each boot or slat that grows around the younger Cabbage Palm is a mini habitat. As the palm grows older the boots gradually drop off and the trunks become slick. I often stop and look at [...]