Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard (2019 Timber Press, Portland, Oregon) by Douglas W. Tallamy is a work that is indeed full of hope.  We of the species Homo sapiens have failed abysmally in our efforts to preserve nature and are now in the position where we will either have to restore it or learn to live without it.  What an irony of all ironies that the species most responsible for planetary devastation is now the only species that can possibly reverse that trend.  About the only ray of light that shines on this seemingly impossible task is that in saving the other creatures of the earth we also serve to save ourselves. Tallamy, a professor at the University of Delaware in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, has produced a manifesto for advancing the cause of nature here at the doorstep…