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29AugThursday Night Nature: PokéPolinators and What Makes the World Go Round with PikaScience (August 29, 2024)
Several franchises of pop culture have derived inspiration from the natural world. The world’s highest-grossing media franchise, Pokémon, is no exception. The cast of PikaScience will explore the plants…
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05OctThursday Night Nature: Restoring Ecological Function vs. Landscaping with Natives with Josh Bruce (October 5, 2023)
Learn the difference between these two approaches to incorporating native plants into the landscape, and how they perform over time. Learn about how the natural environment, and the selection…
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06AprThursday Night Nature: Restoring the Land Together, Joyfully: One Response to the Climate Crisis with Paige Menton (Apr. 06)
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “All of life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” When asked how a person should respond to the climate crisis, climate…
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19OctThursday Night Nature: Retooling the American Garden with Carl Molter (October 19, 2023)
With the shift of horticulture from one of aesthetics and extraction to one of ecology, many gardeners wonder how to best make their existing landscapes more environmentally beneficial. Unless…
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22AugThursday Night Nature: Scent-sational Connections with Rowan University (August 22, 2024)
OUR PRESENTER ENCOURAGE YOU TO BRING A FRAGRANT NATIVE PLANT WITH YOU TO THIS PROGRAM
With direct links to emotion and memory, our sense of smell establishes evocative relationships between…
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11MayThursday Night Nature: Secrets of Butterfly Gardening: What Do Butterflies Really Need? with Mary Anne Borge (May. 11)
What are the best plants to attract butterflies to your garden? Can you have a butterfly garden if you have shade? What other conditions do butterflies need to thrive?…
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18JulThursday Night Nature: Soils and Natives 101 What is the nature of their relationship? with Mark Brownlee (July 18, 2024)
Soil and native plants are an inseparable pair supporting each other literally and metaphorically. How does this relationship work? Join ecologist and botanist Mark Brownlee for an up-close look…
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03OctThursday Night Nature: Soils and Natives 201 – Digging Deeper into the Relationship with Mark Brownlee (October 3, 2024)
Soil type plays a dominant role in limiting the native plants that can grow in any location and which native plant communities emerge across the landscape. At home, we…
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08AugThursday Night Nature: Symbiosis in Flight: The Butterfly-Host Plant Connection with Grace Lenart and Meryl Callaway (August 08, 2024)
Every summer, the Preserve is proud to offer internship opportunities to some up-and-coming industry professionals. Each comes to the Preserve with a unique set of skills and interests. Throughout…
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16NovThursday Night Nature: TerraCycle with Kariina Rand (November 16, 2023)
TerraCycle is a mission-driven company dedicated to the elimination of the idea of waste through the creation of innovative solutions for the recycling of traditionally non-recycled materials. Based in…
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24OctThursday Night Nature: Thar She Glows! Biofluorescence with Holden Cooper (October 24, 2024)
Thar She Glows aims to shed light on the novel study of biofluorescence, focusing on taxa in terrestrial systems. Holden Cooper will discuss the current research in these systems…
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14NovThursday Night Nature: The Bird Collision Problem in Philadelphia with Keith Russell (November 14, 2024)
Birds have been colliding with buildings and other human structures since the 19th century and much of the research that’s been conducted historically to help us understand the phenomenon…