GardenRiots

Paleontoiogists say that we first evolved as a species on the African savanna, that mixed landscape of grassland and scattered trees.

A friend suggested I read James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey”, more than a year ago….It went on to my list, with 150 other titles.

Trees can be a defining element of a community as a ‘success’ story, a failure or somewhere in-between.

I don’t usually repost what I’ve put on my FB page, but the world just keeps getting crazier politically, so much so that our new reality is being lost in the chaos.

As a science nerd I found this a fascinating read.

One of my most current reads and the book that prompted this posting.When Darwin wrote “Origin of the Species” in 1859, he clarified and developed ideas that had been kicking around by those studying natural history and the origin of life, even the possib…

Taken May 17.

The reversion on this competing leader threatens to dominate the canopy if not removed.

A Juniper like this one, growing out on BLM land around Cline Buttes, attains this squat and sturdy stature only after hundreds of years.

Talk of environmental crises is everywhere, climate change, mass species extinctions, losses of critical habitat, the privatization of once public resources and landscapes (and their subsequent ‘pillaging’ by corporate entities), critically dropping aquif…