A beautiful way to reduce flooding in your neighborhood
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Replacing lawn grass with native plants—species like riverbank lupine, coneflowers, and Indiangrass with deeper root systems—reduces stormwater runoff and erosion while providing habitat for local birds, insects, and mammals, helping neighborhoods adapt to more extreme rainfall as climate warms.
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