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Conservation Burial
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Traditional, natural burial without embalming, and using a plain wooden casket or shroud is also known in the media as "green burial". Natural burial that serves a higher conservation purpose by being a part of efforts to restore or protect a significant tract of land is known as "conservation burial". The Honey Creek project is following standards and guidelines for conservation burial developed at the Ramsey Creek Preserve, and formalized by the Green Burial Council.
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| The Honey Creek Woodlands is protecting a significant natural area that is also a key part of a much larger, landscape level conservation effort, the Mount Arabia Heritage Corridor. Within the monastery land holdings, the Honey Creek Woodlands site is an old terraced farm area that almost certainly grew cotton and other bare-earth crops ending less than 100 years ago. More recently, timber harvest of the predominantly pine forest that had grown from the old fields contributed to the need for active restoration, but also provided opportunities to nurture the area back to ecological health. Beginning in 2006, we started work to identify remaining diversity elements and to use this information to protect and develop hardwood forest, semi-open savannah and eastern wildflower meadows. |
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