Village and Wilderness

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Insights
Hawk moth. © Tom Chase

February 18, 2026

Nature’s return on small investments

December 20, 2025

What might take root when microhabitats meet college campuses?

October 22, 2025

Where science leaves off, the stewards’ ingenuity begins…

September 10, 2025

Climate change is no longer a distant threat—it is here, reshaping daily life and pressing communities everywhere to find practical ways to adapt. 

Among the most promising of these adaptation initiatives…

Tom Chase – April 10, 2024

Several summers ago I was wandering around my yard’s own microhabitat on Martha’s Vineyard Island, when I came upon a small but strikingly beautiful flower that I’d never seen before…

How to de-fragment the landscape

Habitat fragmentation poses one of the most difficult problems for communities adapting to climate change. Where the landscape is broken up by housing development, industry,

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How to Un-Develop Land

Perhaps your community is like mine: years ago, sensing that the character of our landscape was being lost through development, conservation-minded citizens created a land

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Submitted by Robert S. Young, PhD, PG and Katie Peek, PG – June 2022

It is important to understand that coastal salt marshes are dynamic systems. As sea level rises, marshes will erode or drown on the seaward margin, and they will expand landward on the upland margin…