The unsung Heroes Underground - Mycorrhizal Fungi And the Wallis Annenberg WIldlife Crossing
Filling the EcoPile beds which are used to farm the mycorrhizal fungal spores
Mycorrhizal fungi - an underground network of fungi, that works in concert with plants, are getting a lot of attention recently. These soil organisms are central to the strategy of restoring native biology to support the planting of the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing.
Katherine Pakradouni, SAMO Fund Nursery Manager for the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing Project Nursery, explains:
"Mycorrhizal fungi serve a critical role in our environment, not only in carbon sequestration, but also in their relationship with plant life above ground. At the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing Project Nursery, we're highlighting the role that mycorrhizal fungi plays in the health of the landscape by harvesting and farming hyper-local mycorrhizae as a part of the approach to restoring the native soil biology which will be used to inoculate both our plant stock in the nursery, as well as the soils used on the crossing project itself.
The goal? To reintroduce native soil biology into the disturbed soils in support of a comprehensive design approach to ecological restoration.
Don't believe us? Just look at the difference that an abundance of mycorrhizal spores (or the lack thereof) can make in growing new plant life in this instagram post.”
The Los Angeles Times recently published an article about how mycorrhizal fungi can capture greenhouse gases in their underground network and the role they play in reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Read the article in Los Angeles Times
“The unsung heroes underground: How fungi are reducing the carbon in our atmosphere”
