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"In early 2024, Michael Fedoroff trekked out to Tuckabum Creek in York County,
Alabama. The environmental anthropologist was there to help plant 300 stalks of
rivercane, a bamboo plant native to North America, on an eroded, degraded strip
of wetland: a “gnarly” and “wicked” area, according to Fedoroff. If successful,
this planting would be the largest cane restoration project in Alabama history.
He and his team got the stalks into the ground, buttressed them with hay, left,
and hoped for the best.
A few days later, rains swept through the area and the river rose by 9 feet.
“We were terrified,” said Fedoroff. He and his team raced back to the site,
expecting to find bare dirt. Instead, they found that the rivercane had
survived — and so, crucially, had the stream bank."
Via
Reasons to be Cheerful:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
