Philosophy

Ecotone and the Baltimore County Soil Conservation District (BCSCD) have had a Memorandum of Agreement since 2010, the result of which has been 28,000 linear feet of stream restoration, 16…

This fall, Ecotone is delivering on a contract to supply 2,000 trees to the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership.  Perhaps stating the obvious, the goal of the partnership is to…

I recently read a blog post by Seth Godin describing Led Zeppelin’s reflection on the audience’s reaction to the first live performance of Stairway to Heaven: “They were all bored…

Taken from one of the famous quotes of the Kevin Costner movie Field of Dreams, Ecotone applied this philosophy to a local restoration project and took advantage of what nature…

​They might seem an odd couple, Crassostrea virginica and Castor canadensis — the Eastern oyster and the North American beaver. But ecologically, for the Chesapeake Bay, the mollusk and the rodent are a lovely…

A common aphorism asks: would you rather pay to train an employee who ultimately leaves your company or not enhance skills of workers who stay with you? Whenever a good teammate and…

We want to give a shout out to Men’s Journal for its interesting story about Dan O’Brien, a South Dakota rancher. Mr. O’Brien has 800 bison on 9,000 acres, and he sells…

Some big news to share. After a battle lasting over 18 months, the toughest of my life, I was deemed Lyme free today at the doctors today. I still have…

To think like a mountain is to have a complete appreciation for the profound interconnectedness of the elements in the ecosystems. It is an ecological exercise using the intricate web…