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ÈâÈ⴫ý State project aims to change minds on native plants
With ecology as common ground, Mario Bretfeld, Michael Blackwell, and Eric Duncan have taken on a bit of a marketing project.
They want people to love weeds.
Using scientific acumen, the trio want people to reconsider certain plants as beneficial to the environment, thanks to a project housed at ÈâÈ⴫ý’s Field Station. There, the Safeguarding, Education, Propagation, and Applied Research Laboratory (SEPAL) project safeguards endangered plants and grows highly important native plants that help ecosystems thrive — the latter rarely get planted in home and business landscapes because of commonly available, non-native alternatives.
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