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ADV - NE - Jennifer de Mooy in conversation with Clinton Dexter-Nienhaus: Water, Carbon, Time, Duluth
318 Central Ave. WDuluth, MN 55807
You are invited to a very special event with environmental writer Jennifer de Mooy on Thursday, November 5th 7 PM at Zenith Bookstore. She will be in conversation with Clinton Dexter-Nienhaus, Head Naturalist at Sax-Zim Bog. They will discuss Jennifer’s new book Water, Carbon, Time: Exploring Peatlands in a Warming World. This will be a fascinating conversation since Sax-Zim Bog is discussed in her book. Please invite all your friends who love nature, the outdoors, bogs, and Sax-Zim Bog! Jennifer will personally sign her book after the discussion. If you can’t make it, you can order a personally signed copy to pick up after the event. This event is FREE, but please RSVP with the button on this page to help us with planning.
Bogs, fens, mires, moors, muskegs, and pocosins—they are found in nearly all the world’s climatic zones but are easily overlooked in our landscapes. Yet these murky ecosystems formed of decay are both full of life and crucial to our planetary wellbeing: covering only about three percent of the earth’s surface, peatlands store more carbon than all the world’s forests combined. In Water, Carbon, Time, Jennifer de Mooy shares her personal discovery of these natural wonders in all their variety and understated beauty, bringing much-needed attention to the restorative possibilities of their spongy depths.
De Mooy first encountered peatlands on a trip to Ireland with her father, but her later work on climate change policy in the United States motivated her to investigate options for reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Her interest was practical: could peatlands combat global warming? To deepen her understanding of these unique wetlands, she embarked on a quest from bogs and fens in Minnesota and Maine to bofedales in Peru and muskegs in Canada and Alaska. A vivid account of her journey, Water, Carbon, Time describes these peatlands in all their richness and mystery: what they are and how to find them, the diversity of ecological life they support, and how their hidden systems promote climate resilience.
As she learns more about the importance of peatlands, de Mooy emphasizes all we lose when they are damaged by drainage, fire, and the broader sweep of climate change. When peatlands are threatened, we risk releasing stored carbon from their soil, where it has accumulated over millennia, into the atmosphere. In parts a travelogue, an ecological history, and a call to action, Water, Carbon, Time demonstrates there is still hope for these precious ecosystems—and their potential as a natural climate solution right beneath our feet.
Jennifer de Mooy has worked in conservation, environmental protection, and climate policy for forty years. For two decades she designed and implemented projects with The Nature Conservancy to protect and restore natural habitats, and for ten years she worked with the Delaware state environmental agency, promoting climate mitigation policies that enhance the capacity of plant communities to absorb and store carbon.
Clinton Dexter-Nienhaus is the Head Naturalist for the Friends of Sax-Zim Bog, a position that he has held for 10 years. He is an Environmental Educator and Naturalist and as Head Naturalist for the Friends of Sax-Zim Bog, Clinton's roles vary including teaching and scheduling education field trips in the Sax-Zim Bog, teaching Minnesota Master Naturalist courses, coordinating a number of Citizen Science endeavors in the Sax-Zim Bog, and documenting and identifying all species found in the Sax-Zim Bog. His interests in the natural world include fish, dragonflies and damselflies, birds, reptiles and amphibians, moths and butterflies, lichens, prairie and boreal forest plant communities and ecology, beetles, ants and grasshoppers, and everything in between!
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