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DOUG TALLAMY'S HOMEGROWN NATIONAL PARK
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There can be no purpose more inspiring than to begin
the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous
diversity of life that still surrounds us.
-- E. O. Wilson, 6/29/1929 to 12/26/2021
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Entomologist/conservationist Douglas Tallamy uses the E.O. Wilson quote in Nature's Best Hope to introduce a chapter that explains why and how to join the HOMEGROWN NATIONAL PARK (HNP) movement. Guidelines for optimizing each of Tallamy's suggestions can be found in his core books:
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  • Bringing Nature Home, Timber Press, 2007, updated 2009. Contains the original research that describes ecological damage created during mankind's industrial era. Appendix One starts with a list of desirable New England native plants with wildlife value. Appendix Two is a gardener's wonderlist that catalogs beloved species of butterflies and showy moths, as well as the names of host plant species that attract each genus of the family lepidoptera.
  • With Rick Darke, The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity. Timber Press, 2014. Their gardening guide enables you to create a garden that fulfills your human needs and the needs of our vast society of wildlife companions.
  • Nature's Best Hope, Timber Press, 2019.  Jam-packed with ideas for rethinking/rewilding/rescaping/ restoring your landscape to a productive natural web of soil and habitat that restores biodiversity to your property. Wonderful pictures of many caterpillars we all need to learn more about (and see also the David L. Wagner book under More Resources below.) Chapter 11 summarizes what each of us can do. 
  • ​The Nature of Oaks, Timber Press, 2021. According to Tallamy, the oak is the premier keystone tree species, which supports far more life forms and interaction than any other North American tree. If this book doesn't inspire you to do something to rewild your property, nothing will!​
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