[Summit] Leaves

[Delgado, Mona Moller]

Dear Anna,

if you need another good excuse, leave your leaves where they are for the
good of nature.  Most butterflies, insects and other crawlers lay their
eggs in the leaves and by removing all our leaves we disturb the local
ecosystem.

Biologists at the *National Wildlife Federation*
<http://blog.nwf.org/2014/11/what-to-do-with-fallen-leaves/> are urging
people to stop raking their leaves. Here’s why:

*1. It’s unnatural.* Leaves are meant to stay where they fall for all the
reasons below. “A leaf layer several inches deep is a natural thing in any
area where trees naturally grow,” NWF says on its website. The leaf layer
is its own mini ecosystem.


On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 7:44 AM, Anna Kuperman <annakuperman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Due to many excuses that I think are completely valid but I will not bore
> you with, I haven’t raked my leaves. If I do it in the next couple of days,
> can I call somebody and ask them to pick up my big brown bags? Any ideas?
> Thanks so much. Enjoy this balmy weather.
>
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