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Let’s hear it for urban community forestry and urban bird watchers. I love thinking about people-plant-place relationships.
If you see this, post a bridge.
I will celebrate #BlackBirdersWeek 2024 by using the prompts in the New York City Urban Birds Explorer Guide, a bird and tree zine.
More information: www.localnaturelab.org/initiatives/....
TulipTree/Liriodendron tulipifera is in the Magnoliaceae. Magnolia & Liriodendron are the only 2 genera in Magnoliaceae. While there are 200+ Magnolia sp. globally, there are only 2 Liriodendron sp: L. tulipifera (NE US) and L. chinense (China, Vietnam). What do you notice about the two flowers?
TulipTree/Liriodendron tulipifera is in the Magnoliaceae. Magnolia & Liriodendron are the only 2 genera in Magnoliaceae. While there are 200+ Magnolia sp. globally, there are only 2 Liriodendron sp: L. tulipifera (NE US) and L. chinense (China, Vietnam). What do you notice about the two flowers?
"What do you get if you cross the planet’s richest 1%, a global legal system adapted to their investment whims, and the chance to squeeze billions from governments?"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...?
‘Litigation terrorism’: the obscure tool that corporations are using against green laws | Arthur Neslen
Investor-State Dispute Settlements are legal, huge and often hush-hush – and fossil fuel firms and others are using them to hold the planet to ransom
www.theguardian.comI made a zine! MADCapHorse: A Zine about Trees. View and download at drive.google.com/file/d/1rSjR....
Recommended read from "Today in Tabs": Art & Autocracy by Greg Allen published at The Brooklyn Rail. brooklynrail.org/2024/05/art/...
Art & Autocracy
Maybe this is a time to look for something else in art, to look at art that resonates with this moment on the precipice of authoritarianism, and to learn from it. What can be gleaned by reconsidering ...
brooklynrail.org
Local plant life. Princess Tree, Witch Hazel Nipple Galls, Lilac flowers, Cherry Laurel flowers feeding Red Admiral.
🫐 or Not?
Serviceberry fruit is a POME! I learned this botanical fact yesterday.🍎
Basically a student just told me that the late penalty wasn't significant enough for him to adhere to the submission deadline. 🤯
#flowersOnSunday at Queens Botanical Garden: Hawthorn; Eastern Redbud.
I missed Dandelion Day on April 5th. Happy Dandelion Day!
I look forward to reading your paper! One of my book clubs has been laser focused on conservation science colonialism.
"Future outbreaks of HPAI could also be controlled and even prevented via reforms to global meat production, Kuiken says."
Folks in Ao/NZ... this is on our horizon. If you see unusual clusters of bird mortality, don't touch (!), but do report to MPI 0800 80 99 66
bbc.com/future/artic...
'Unprecedented': How bird flu became an animal pandemic
Bird flu is decimating wildlife around the world and is now spreading in cows. In the handful of human cases seen so far it has been extremely deadly.
bbc.com
Finally!
Fifteen years after the EPA said greenhouse gasses are a danger to public health, the agency finalized rules to limit climate-warming pollution from existing coal and new gas power plants.
Coal and new gas power plants will have to meet climate pollution targets
Fifteen years after the EPA said greenhouse gasses are a danger to public health, the agency finalized rules to limit climate-warming pollution from existing coal and new gas power plants.
www.npr.org🦆 Is there a term for the final weeks of the semester like there is for the last year of the presidency?
I twitched a bird (lifer!) then I noticed these lichen on a Kentucky Coffeetree.
This cancel makes total sense.
"“The development of cold-storage warehouses has banished in large measure the divisions of summer and winter, and the epicure can feast on pecan-fed turkey and canvas-back duck on the Fourth of July with as much relish as he can at Christmas.”"
In the 1800s, wild birds were as much a commodity as beef or lumber, and elaborate supply chains brought frozen ducks and geese by rail from ponds in Nebraska or Texas to luxury restaurants in Manhattan. Wild game was also the defining element of American cuisine - if you could afford it.
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Reskeet with a banger picture of your cat.
True or False: The #CalleryPear is one of most despised tree species in North America.
Just enough stoop to separate the private and public realms.
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Since 1965?!
I wrote about Newbern, Alabama, a small town that heard you have to let Black people vote in elections so they *stopped holding elections*
Black residents are suing to force the town to hold its first regular election in decades!
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
A Small Alabama Town Stopped Holding Elections In 1965. Black Residents Are Begging a Federal Court to Change That
In a judiciary controlled by conservatives, the best liberals can hope for is a chance to uphold basic principles of democratic governance.
ballsandstrikes.org
This Yoshino Cherry in Washington Sq Park achieved peak bloom (70% open flowers) on March 28, 2024. #phenology
