Algae in a water sample from the St. Croix River, magnified about 200x. (Photo by Aiden T., student from Lee & Rose Warner Nature Center) Just as a forest provides a specialized ecosystem that includes shelter for its inhabitants along the food chain, so too does a river. Having grown up and lived my life…
Category: ecology
D.C. Circuit Rejects Oglala Sioux Tribe Challenge to Uranium Mine — Turtle Talk
Excerpt from the Tribal Brief: This case concerns the proposed Dewey-Burdock in situ leach uraniumextraction project in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The project lands are withinthe traditional aboriginal territory of the Tribe and included in the 1851 FortLaramie Treaty and the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty (15 Stat., 635). The Project areais known to…
Tough Love — Micro of the Macro
Please take a few minutes of your time to look at the beauty that is threatened by us carrying on as usual. Please read Lisa at Micro of the Macro’s post — then take action. The world as we know it depends on it. All photos were taken inside Yosemite National Park in California before…
Doodads — Yard Pics and More
Now that the weather is making things grow and charging my soular battery I’ve been out there and taking more pics. It’s amazing how much the heat accelerates the process. Plus, several weeks ago I took a survey for our local conservation district as to what I would like to see their resources go to…
earthweal EWC — every atom…
Every atom gets its chance to be every thing. When the Chinese call it the 10,000 things, I thought it was just an expression to encompass all, no matter how many. What I know now is that the term is talking about opportunity rather than quantity. In the beginning, when atoms were trying to figure…
dVerse — prosery 5 — All Hallow’s Eve
On one of the few warm and sunny days left of autumn, we decided to ride our bikes along the new stretch of bike trail. The land had been donated by the local chemical company. Where yellow “no trespassing” signs proliferated before was now accessible by all. The woodland trail was full of gentle slopes…
OctPoWriMo2019 Day 14 — Mother Earth
Patient kin Stand tall until We see we are them And they are us. Gaia Spirals finite, infinite loops Recycled bits, when planted at Death, their roots take for life Even our ashes give new life Mother trees watch their Children, patient kin Love stands tall Until we dare To see. Morgan Dragonwillow (with today’s…
Tao Talk 