Status Updates From Bad Naturalist: One Woman's...

Not sure I’m going to finish this one, at 20%. This is a book for a very specific audience. I am not that audience.

I am blown away that the author detailed some history of her area ecologically and never once mentioned the indigenous people who lived there, though she referenced the “explorers” (colonizers) and their records. Apparently, it was densely populated with bison but they just “disappeared”!

Great book! Very interesting and well written true story.
It is really inspiring to read about a woman who bought 200 acres of a Virginia mountaintop and ended up managing a environmental rehabilitation of it.
She had no background or education on this topic. She includes both her mistakes and her successes.

Milkweed, yellow crownbeard, and broomsedge (the latter two growing wild, the first I planted to help the Monarchs) are three of my favorites too, and I'm oh so thankful for the absence of autumn olive and mile-a-minute vine on our 21 acres! We have a hard enough time dealing with invasive Japanese stiltgrass and honeysuckle.