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Women of the Earth
The Key to Restoring the Prairies Has Four Legs
Rancher Chia Thrane uses goat grazing to manage noxious weeds in Montana.
How This Oyster Farmer is Reinventing Aquaculture
Women of the Earth features stories of women across America who are leading a new movement to restore and protect the land. By focusing on women in land stewardship roles, the series will explore women’s unique relationship to the earth and their innovative undertakings to heal the earth from climate change.
How This Oyster Farmer is Reinventing Aquaculture
Season 2 Episode 2 | 18m 16s | CC
Oysters are powerful ecosystem engineers—they filter water, reduce ocean acidification, and build reefs that act as natural breakwaters, protecting our coasts. But the plastic gear used to farm them is doing irreversible harm to the very ecosystems oysters help restore.
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