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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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15MayThursday Night Nature: Seeding Ecosystems of the Future with Evelyn M. Beaury, Ph.D. (May 15, 2025)
Climate change is impacting the distribution of biodiversity across time and space. Our gardens can be incredibly useful tools to support biodiversity conservation, such as by supporting native plant…
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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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10AprThursday Night Nature: Stream Restoration and Conservation in Action with Sandy Urgo (April 10, 2025)
During this lecture, Sandy will highlight two of six major restoration projects completed by The Land Conservancy. The presentation will focus on Yards Creek Preserve in Blairstown, New Jersey,…
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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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17AprThursday Night Nature: The Art and Science of Growing Native Plants from Seed: Why, When, and How with Randi Eckel, Ph.D. (April 17, 2025)
As we incorporate more native plants into our landscapes, there are so many good reasons to use plants propagated from seeds. But wild plants have evolved a dizzying array…
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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…