Not only do native plants release water into the air which helps cool an area, but they also prevent flooding and erosion after a forest fire because of their deep roots
As natural disasters become more common, many of us are left wondering what we can do in our own backyard to be more resilient to climate change.They can help with extreme heat, flooding, and even wildfires.
"If you have these native plants with the really deep roots holding everything in place, then it's less likely that you're going to have crazy flooding, that you're going to have these mudslides, that you're going to lose all of the plants and everything's going to slide down the hill," Kiers said."It's actually going to be keeping things in place and absorbing that water."Ecologist Billy Krimmel who retrofitted his yard to be covered in native plants.
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