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In defense of foraging
We should feel free to go out and (responsibly) harvest food from the wild
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Gabe Popkin
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Some good news: Wetlands are doing way better than we thought
But the future of these life-nurturing ecological superscapes remains perilous
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Gabe Popkin
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The wood-wide web: A story too good for its own good?
Hard questions about one of our most popular scientific narratives
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Gabe Popkin
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Could one of our most important trees disappear with barely a whimper?
A mysterious disease aided by an apathetic bureaucracy could doom the American beech
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Gabe Popkin
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Genetically engineered trees have been planted in American forests
The back-story and some reflections on a wild tree story
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Gabe Popkin
Speaking to the future with loppers and hand saws
Planting trees is overrated. We need an army of tree pruners.
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Gabe Popkin
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Has America entered a new era of deforestation?
When you read the word “deforestation,” what image comes to mind? If I had to guess, it would be trees being felled somewhere in the tropics — perhaps…
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Gabe Popkin
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The Nature Beat is an attempt to fill a major gap in the journalism landscape. I write and publish stories and essays about nature, trees, forests and all the living things that keep our world going.
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