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To Rebuild NYC's Beaches, A Native Plant Savings And Loan

2013-06-19 22:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Public Radio: Across the New York region, people are still working to rebuild homes and businesses after the havoc wrought by Hurricane Sandy. But the storm also devastated the dunes and native flora of New York's beaches. When the city replants grasses on those dunes, it will be able to draw on seeds from precisely the grasses that used to thrive there. That's because of a very special kind of bank: a seed bank run by the Greenbelt Native Plant Center on Staten Island. Heather Lea Liljengren has been a seed...

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