[S4E6] Rivercane Reverie

About this episode

Nicole explores the rare and endangered canebrake ecosystems of the eastern United States and discusses conservation efforts.

In this month's Best Biome, Nicole tells the story of a grassland ecosystem so rare and so endangered that neither of her co-hosts had any idea it existed! We're talking about the once-ubiquitous canebrake ecosystems of the eastern United States, which were quite literally American bamboo forests, complete with their own prehistoric red pandas. Find out what happened to the unique rivercane landscape, and what's being done to save it today. Let the search for 30 ft.-tall grasses become your new obsession! Also, check out these great organizations doing rivercane restoration! Cherokee Preservation Foundation Rivercane Restoration Alliance Chattooga Conservancy Primary Sources : Phylogenetic relationships and natural hybridization among the North American woody bamboos (Poaceae: Bambusoideae: Arundinaria) March 2010 https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3732/ajb.0900244 Campbell, Julian. 2012. Growth of Cane. Bluegrass Woodland Restoration Center. https://bluegrasswoodland.com/uploads/Arundinaria__Growth_of_Cane_.pdf Giant Cane and Other Native Bamboos: Establishment and Use for Conservation of Natural Resources in the Southeast USDA - NRCS 2021…

People in this episode

Host: Nicole

Topics covered

• grassland ecosystems
• rivercane
• bamboo forests
• conservation
• endangered species

Keywords

• canebrake
• rivercane
• bamboo
• ecosystem
• conservation
• endangered
• grassland

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cherokee Preservation Foundation, Rivercane Restoration Alliance, Chattooga Conservancy

Books & works: Phylogenetic relationships and natural hybridization among the North American woody bamboos (Poaceae: Bambusoideae: Arundinaria), Growth of Cane, Giant Cane and Other Native Bamboos: Establishment and Use for Conservation of Natural Resources in the Southeast

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