WHAT IF YOU COULD HELP boost biodiversity, increase your opportunities for nature exposure and establish robust ecological communities in your own back yard? And what if, by doing so, you could also participate in a grand experiment whose designer dubs it the “biggest conservation effort ever”?
Doug Tallamy has issued a rallying cry for gardeners and nature lovers in Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard. In the book, Tallamy outlines his Homegrown National Park project. The name is a nod to the potential influence of private property owners, who hold deeds to 78 percent of the country’s land.
“ readers can really make a difference,” says Tallamy, “because you’re already
