Conservation Sense and Nonsense

Please join me in welcoming Megan Bonnett to the team of contrarians who don’t believe that native plants are the salvation of nature.

Six months ago, an ecologist friend and mentor alerted me that Ferris Jabr was writing an article about Doug Tallamy for The New York Times Magazine.

It is my pleasure to publish (with permission) Arthur M.

The hero of Eradication: A Fable (1) is Adi, a jazz musician and 4th grade school teacher in an unnamed South American country.

Here in the San Francisco Bay Area we are having a spectacular spring after heavy fall and late spring rains.

Garden Rant recently published an article by garden-writer, Marianne Willburn, defending gardeners who prefer a diverse garden over an exclusively native garden.

Conservation Sense and Nonsense spends an inordinate amount of time and energy responding to Doug Tallamy’s claim that insects are solely dependent on native plants because his publications are extremely influential with home gardeners and public land man…

Kollibri Terre Sonnenblume and his writing partner, Nikki Hill, are co-authoring a book tentatively entitled “Don’t Blame the Messenger: A critique of the ‘invasive plant’ narrative.”

One year ago, less than a month after Donald Trump was re-elected President, I announced on Conservation Sense and Nonsense my intention to “hunker down and watch the changes [in the federal government] play out.”

Juian Burgoff Julian Burgoff wrote a guest post for Conservation Sense and Nonsense about the undervalued functions of non-native aquatic plants in 2023.