DLNR has dedicated this year as the year of the community forest. While we have plans to highlight the work we’ve done over the last 20 years, at the end of the day a lot of it boils down to this photo. Quietly adding more native plants to the forest, shifting that trajectory back toward native.

Here, the 2 native Touchardia lineages (T. latifolia, T. glabra) are ready for outplanting. It might not be loud or flashy, but it is the backbone of our work.