Dear Hearts,

Worried about the destruction of the rainforest and other environmental disasters? Me too. But you can strike a blow for biological diversity and do something about climate change right here at home on your own piece of this Good Earth.

Whether you live in town or the country, I hope you will join us in a quiet revolution in land management. This grassroots magazine is about that revolution and the people who are leading it.

• They're turning degraded land back into prairie.
• They're reconstructing wetlands instead of draining them.
• They're clearing overgrown oak savannas and watching the wildflowers and red-headed woodpeckers return.
• They're practicing sustainable forestry.
  
• Instead of mowing, fertilizing and watering huge lawns, they’re putting in wildlife friendly deep-rooted native perennials that soak up moisture and return it to the water table.
• Many are volunteers pitching in to restore public and private lands.
• Some are farmers producing healthy food from healthy land.
• They're taking their cues from the CO-2 absorbing, resource-conserving native plant communities that evolved over thousands of years.

Let’s strike a blow for cleaner air and water and greater biological diversity in this age of global warming and imperiled soil and water resources.

This magazine can help you make it happen on your land whether it’s your back yard or the back 40.

Join us, won’t you. I think we’re onto something.

~ Mrs. Woods