From the Field
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Ethical Engagements with a Naughty Plant
August 30, 2024I first encountered Japanese knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum) on a 400-acre botanical sanctuary in southeast Ohio where I was completing an intensive internship in the conservation of native medicinal plants. As the sanctuary was a refuge for threatened Appalachian medicinal plants, like goldenseal and ginseng, the sanctuary did not… -
Fire is Medicine
July 11, 2024As fire season begins again in the Pacific Northwest, it is inevitable that the news will fill with images of explosive, flaming fronts and headlines will tally the acreages consumed, the structures engulfed, the lives given, the landscapes lost. But while wildfires in North America and elsewhere are indeed becoming…