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Trash species are wildlife habitat too… 🐰

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Much like how junk food like hot pockets and candy bars are food and provide some substance, habitats with invasive species still offer a home to wildlife and are part of a healthy ecosystem. While invasive degrade an ecosystem they don’t destroy it like asphalt and buildings do.

The reality of our landscape

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The reality of our landscape 🐄 🌽 🌳 🌳 🌱 🐷

Farm crops and pasture represent roughly 1 out of four acres in New York State, only exceeded by forested acerage which is roughly 2/3rds of the state’s land cover.

While a lot of the forested acerage is Forest Preserve and park, a significant portion of the remaining acerage is farm woodland in support of farm operations – timber used to heat farm houses and make hot water for milk houses, milled in support of farm construction, used to provide hunting grounds, and sold as an additional income stream to the farm.