So what is the good news in the litany of malignancy?
Joshua Tree National Park is seeing vandals destroy the famed trees during Trump’s assault-on-America government shut-down. “Off-road” assholes are ripping up other national parks, too.
The Instagram effect of people taking selfies in remote locations is trashing those locations.
“Recent housing growth rates are faster in high flood risk zones for most coastal states.”
Anecdotally, I hear that homeowners in Oregon are telling their garden designers they don’t want any bugs inside or out. Especially spiders! (Ooooh, spiders!) They demand scorched-earth pesticide-use, death to everything up and down the food chain and the future, too.
This monster paid $3 million dollars for a rare, big bluefin tuna. The species is critically endangered, but evidently that whale-killing nation will eat the last one, regardless of the cost.
I live across the street from an entrance to a park. People dump their tires and old flat screen TVs there.
And on it goes…
Here’s a young Red-tailed Hawk carrying…a pinecone. It wrenched this off the top of a tall white pine. I’ve seen Red-tails break sticks from trees for nest-building, but never this before. There are some hints in the literature, though: hawks bringing pinecones to the nest, hawks playing with pinecones.
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