Meet the Ecologist Who Wants You to Unleash the Wild on Your Backyard

SMITHSONIAN • April 1, 2020

Douglas Tallamy wants to see land replanted with native North American flora, supporting a healthy array of native North American butterflies, moths and other arthropods, providing food for a robust population of songbirds, small mammals and reptiles. He even has a name for it: Homegrown National Park.