MassACORN - March 2011: Draba

MassAcorn: A co-operative resource network for the Westfield and Deerfield watersheds of western Massachusetts.

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Selection from Leopold's "A Sand County Almanac"

March 2011: Draba

Within a few weeks Draba, the smallest flower that blows, will sprinkle every sandy place with small blooms.

He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowning. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance....

Extracted from "Land Ethic" by Aldo Leopold. 1947.

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ACORN was supported originally (2006-2010) by the National Research Initiative of the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (grant number 2006-55101-16564), and continues to be supported by the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station and UMass Amherst Department of Environmental Conservation.