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Just as social and ecological devastation are intricately connected, so too is the repair process. While we cannot heal genocide nor bring back all the people and their whole lifeways, so too we cannot restore ecosystems to their reference conditions and assemblages. However, we can begin to reconcile the damage done through how we tend land and corresponding social networks. Join us to learn about a seven year project based on pilot, mesocosm, and field research in Unceded Abenaki Territory where a degraded riparian forested buffer was restored with native plant polycultures and endemic mycorrhizal fungi. While meeting the study’s four objectives aimed to mitigate phosphorus pollution, increase pollinator habitat, facilitate Abenaki land access. and foster local ecoliteracy, we investigate whether endemic mycorrhizae increase phosphorus uptake and facilitate plant biodiversity. We will discuss site history, methodology, data, and context within the restoration and regenerative agriculture movements as well as implications for bioregional watershed and trophic resilience.
This program is a part Healthy Soils, Healthy Trees research and is funded by COA Urban Forestry Grant.
About the Guest Speaker
Jess Rubin is a restoration ecologist, and educator. She facilitates ecological resilience service Mycoevolveoffering earthworks, education, and research. She also serves as a Myco-Phytoremediation Research Technician in UVM’s Agriculture Landscape and Environment Department while serving in Vermont's Fungal Species Advisory Group.
