Meeting with guest speaker Dr. Julie Stromberg, Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University: Diversity of Life in a Riparian Garden: Butterflies and Moths.
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Saturday, February 24, 2024
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Urban gardens play increasingly important roles in sustaining regional diversity of flora and fauna. For the past two decades, Dr. Stromberg and her partner have re-wilded their urban acreage in South Phoenix. They report the changes they have made, their rationale, and their consequences in their recent book, Bringing Home the Wild: A Riparian Garden in a Southwest City (U.A. Press). Her talk will highlight the experiences reported in their book, especially those with butterflies, moths, and the plants that support them. Dr. Stromberg spent decades at Arizona State University as a plant ecologist researching the wetlands and riparian ecosystems of the American Southwest. She is the author of a hundred-plus scientific articles and continues to write while also tending a food forest and riparian garden in the city.
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