Rust2Green: Utica, NY
Over the last fifty years, older industrial cities throughout the Northeastern and Midwestern United States have experienced dramatic economic decline and outward migration. To counter this narrative of decline and ...
The Future of the Forest: White-tailed Deer and their Impact
Throughout many parts of the Northeastern, Southeastern and Midwestern United States a rise in the population of white-tailed deer has lead to a diverse set of impacts on the landscape. ...
Climate Change, Food, and ‘Sharing’ among the Iñupiat of Wainwright, Alaska
Indigenous peoples living in high Arctic environments have developed sophisticated ecological and social relationships with the animals, plants, and inanimate objects that define their complex and dynamic habitat. These relations ...
Farming for Wildlife in Skagit County, Washington
Balancing the needs for agriculture and threatened wildlife is a complex issue that many rural communities now face. Conservationists and farmers have often found themselves at opposite sides of a ...
Building Local Food Systems and Assessing Landscape Outcomes in Ithaca, NY
Proponents of the local foods movement argue that major environmental benefits can be generated through sourcing foods locally. But two key question remain. Can we know what the environmental benefits ...
Biomimicry
“Biomimicry” is the science and practice of looking to nature’s best biological ideas to solve human problems. It is a new term to describe an action that is not so ...
Precision Irrigation
A large portion of the world’s water is used for agriculture and most of this water is going to waste. Precision Irrigation is a concept and practice that aims to ...
Farmscape Ecology at Hawthorne Valley Farm
Agriculture and biodiversity are often pitted against each other as working towards opposite ends. Farmscape Ecology has been presented as a way to bring these two normally opposing forces together ...
Marketing Local Food of the Capay Valley
The local food movement is an approach to lowering the ecological footprints of our food supply. However, a main bottleneck in making local foods mainstream is ensuring that consumers know ...
Protecting Landscapes in Rural Pennsylvania
This case study provides an overview of the various threats to the rural landscapes of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania and the various approaches a local land trust is taking in order ...
Controlling Invasive Species in Hell’s Canyon, Idaho
Hell’s Canyon, Idaho has million’s of acres of land with elevations ranges from 0 to 7000 feet above sea level. With its rugged terrain and steep elevation changes, biodiversity has ...
Rural Conservation Strategies in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania
This brief case study provides an overview of the various threats to the rural landscapes of Susquehanna County and the various approaches they are taking in order to protect it. ...
