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Barbara Rahn recommends native-compatible plants for Beaver Island, 2011

Also Beaver Island native-compatible plants guidance 2011

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Date2011-09
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2011-09
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Education
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Beaver Island

Summary

Barbara Rahn’s September 2011 Beacon article uses Doug Tallamy’s Bringing Nature Home to argue that Beaver Island already retains substantial native habitat and should protect it. She lists non-native or invasive plants to avoid and suggests native or native-compatible alternatives, including Bearberry, Sugar Maple, Red Twig Dogwood, Monarda, Juneberry, Asclepia, and Woody Potentilla.

Evidence limits

This records a newspaper recommendation and its cited reading, not a complete botanical inventory, an official planting policy, or an independent assessment of every plant pairing.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, September 2011, "Native Compatible Plants."
    Discusses Doug Tallamy's Bringing Nature Home and recommends avoiding Vinca, Norway Maple, Barberry, Purple Loosestrife, Russian Olive, Oriental Bittersweet, and Burning Bush Euonymous in favor of Bearberry, Sugar Maple, Red Twig Dogwood, Monarda, Juneberry, Asclepia, and Woody Potentilla. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2011-09_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the native-plant guidance article.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2011-09_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Barbara Rahn recommends native-compatible plants for Beaver Island, 2011”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-native-compatible-plants-2011/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 2011, "Native Compatible Plants." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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