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Recognizing & Removing Invasive Species From Your Yard

June Stoyer 11 Comments Environment, Featured Guests, Featured Guests, Gardening

Many people love to buy new species of plants to add something new to their garden but have no idea that they could be introducing an invasive species to their landscape. One of the most common ways of introducing invasive species to your yard is by purchasing firewood. An unsuspecting homeowner can very well introduce such species as the emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis, which has been devastating the ash tree population of North America. This is now a major crisis in the Eastern United States and Canada, as 15-20% of the tree population is ash, genus: Fraxinus spp. (baseball bats are made from ash).

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Author, Jon Soeder: Fingers In The Light

June Stoyer 10 Comments Animals, Environment, Featured Guests, Featured Guests, Health, Inspiration, Wildlife

It is a fact that many people prefer animals over other human beings. With animals, there is no such thing as racism, bullying, or any kind of a popularity contest. However, human beings can really do unspeakable things to one another just for sheer amusement. It is sad that our innate need to control can wind up inflicting so much cruelty, pain and suffering. In life, there are many lessons to be learned. Sometimes you learn them from the things done to you and sometimes from the things you do to others.

Granted, while we may be different as individuals each of us has some kind of a natural instinct or “spark” that is immutable and guides us. What exactly does this mean and where did it come from? Are we really alone or is it just that because we cannot see, hear or touch something, we need proof? This perhaps, is a matter of faith and also a matter of our own reality. In this segment of The Organic View Radio Show, host, June Stoyer will speak to award winning author and famed animal communicator, Jon Soeder about his latest inspirational book which is about his own life of enlightenment.

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