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Stalking the golden swamp bird
First of all, call it the golden swamp bird or golden swamp warbler (GSB or GSW for short). That’s what it is, after all, and wild creatures should be…
May 16
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Gabe Popkin
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April 2023
In defense of foraging
We should feel free to go out and (responsibly) harvest food from the wild
Apr 15
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Gabe Popkin
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March 2023
Some good news: Wetlands are doing way better than we thought
But the future of these life-nurturing ecological superscapes remains perilous
Mar 7
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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
Mar 1
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Gabe Popkin
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February 2023
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
Feb 22
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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
Feb 17
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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.
Feb 1
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Gabe Popkin
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January 2023
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…
Jan 24
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Gabe Popkin
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What does it mean to protect nature in 2023?
We will need to go far beyond cordoning off land and water
Jan 11
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Gabe Popkin
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Why start a newsletter about nature?
Jan 9
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Gabe Popkin
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Coming soon
This is The Nature Beat, a newsletter about trees, forests and all the other living things that keep our world going.
Jan 1
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Gabe Popkin
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