Nature’s Best Hope
a Zoom Webinar hosted by
Fort Bragg Bee City USA & Fort Bragg Garden Club
Weds, January 15, 2025, 1-2:30 pm
View and participate at Fort Bragg Town Hall, 363 N Main St, Fort Bragg, CA 95437
Fort Bragg Bee City USA & Fort Bragg Garden Club, supporters and partners of Fort Bragg Seed Library, are hosting a webinar, via Zoom, with entomologist, Doug Tallamy, renowned author and advocate for nature preservation. The webinar, titled Nature’s Best Hope, includes presentation by the author followed by a 30 min Q&A at the end of the presentation.
The Garden Club has arranged with the City of Fort Bragg to make the webinar available to the public on the big screen at Town Hall, 363 N Main St. Anyone interested is welcome to attend. Doors open at 12:30pm. The presentation is free, but donations to the Garden Club’s fund for native plant installations in Guest House Park are greatly appreciated. Two copies of Doug Tallamy’s books will be raffled, courtesy of Gallery Bookshop, Mendocino.
Doug Tallamy is one of the nation’s leading conservationists and an evangelist for the importance of native plants to preserve what remains of the natural ecology of North America.
His message across his many books, including bestsellers, Bringing Nature Home and Nature’s Best Hope, is that the loss of biodiversity, depletion of natural resources, and environmental degradation endanger all life on Earth—and that nature preservation is a crucial and urgent matter that requires immediate attention and individual action.
With a vision of replacing half the 40 million acres of lawn in the U.S. with native habitat, he co-founded Homegrown National Park (HNP). He charges the monoculture lawn is a landscaper that for ecological purposes might as well be a parking lot. “Every suburban lawn in America has the potential to be an ecological oasis.” To do this, HNP calls on everyone to add native plants and remover invasive ones everywhere that we live, work, learn, pray, and play, creating a network of interconnected habitats to provide food and shelter for birds, insects, and other wildlife.
As an entomologist, Tallamy’s research has focused on the connections between plants and insects and how those relations are critical to birds. He developed his understanding of native ecosystems through rigorous field studies that examined native versus introduced flora as caterpillar hosts and bird habitat. He is Professor of Agriculture and Natural Resources in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware. More on HNT at https://homegrownnationalpark.org. Info courtesy of Fort Bragg Garden Club
