Woooooooooooo… Green-Wood’s Headless Hawk is said to only fly on All Hallow’s Eve… mostly because every year it bumps into a tree limb and doesn’t work up the courage to do it again for another year.
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Nobody has said it for a while, but I have had people here say “don’t do politics, I just want to see pretty pictures.” Don’t do politics? How do such people expect there to be pretty pictures without politics, particularly when politics is hell-bent on destroying those pretty pictures?
Opening up Tongass National Forest to the clear-cutters; stripping protection for wolves for the killers; polluting our air, water, soil, and food for the profiteers; ravaging Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument for his Potemkin wall. (Here’s 125 Trump rollbacks of environmental safeguards.) And all the climate denial bullshit.
That same ideological attack has resulted in a quarter million unnecessary deaths, devastated families, and saddled Covid-survivors with dreadful long-term consequences (Trump is still in court trying to kill the ACA and its preexsiting conditions protections). That coked-up filth, Donald Trump, Jr., said on Thursday night, after more than 1000 Covid deaths that day, that the death toll was “almost down to nothing,” as a ghastly Fox-blonde smirked.)
Trump and his death-cult party have been an environmental and conservation disaster. He’s going to burn everything to the ground as long as he can. God-damn every motherfucker who votes for these people.
Backyard and Beyond 
Good for you; rage on!
I welcome your thoughtful political writing in your blog. I agree with what you say. You have given links to articles I may not have seen, otherwise. We won’t have any pretty pictures if it is all destroyed. So thank you for all of it.
AMEN!
It’s not like we can get it all back once it is destroyed. And for what? To make some person already rich even richer?
BTW I really like your daily blog posts.
God damn them all. May the 3rd be with us !
Do all the politics you want. You never offend me, These things need to be said. I am infuriated anoint the Tongass. I pray soon this national nightmare will end. Thank you for educating me about the natural world and for expressing informative opinions.