Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Down in Louisisana is a man after my own heart by the name of Matt Conn...........An Environmental Consultant by profession, he has taken to recreating and restoring his own personal 65 acres of property back to their native Bald Cypress/Pecan/Green Ash forest state.........One by one, out come the non-native chineese tallow trees and other non-native exotics and in their place the "Bald Cyprus Association of plants" that upon maturity could harbor a menagerie of 200+bird species,,,,,,,,,,,,,His land improvements have upped the biodiversity quotient on the property with bobcats, black bears and deer all now making their home there...............In a much smaller way, I too have been a land restorationist on the 4 homes that I have owned in Dallas, Pomona, New York, Allendale, NJ and Calabasas, Calif...........Natives replaced exotics with the goal of bringing back indigenous animal species .................As Mr. Conn states in the article,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"It's my therapy, I'm one of those society does not make any sense to me kind of guys, nature does"

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A Hobbyist

Whose

Workshop

Sits Among the

Cypress Trees

By JOHN SCHWARTZ

While some people golf to
unwind, Matt Conn, an
environmental consultant,
restores his wetland,
pouring in hours and
money putting his
pastime
somewhere between
hobby
and obsession.

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Matt Conn trimming trees on his property in Iberia Parish, La

A young cypress on his property.CreditWilliam Widmer for The New York Times

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