the thing about those CITY TREES is they have it so easy and they don't do ANY REAL WORK - one tree says to another in the middle of a field.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/43601482

If you are local please consider signing up to protect your neighbors from state violence: https://www.norcalresist.org/volunteer.html

If you are local please consider signing up to protect your neighbors from state violence: https://www.norcalresist.org/volunteer.html

The best-known wildlife recoveries in the U.S. are often associated with the West. Yet some important gains have occurred east of the Mississippi, among cities, roads, farms, and landscapes altered over several centuries.

Andrew Moore’s new book, Beasts of the East: The Fall and Rise of America’s Eastern Wilderness, examines the decline and partial return of animals that once occupied the region in abundance. Before European settlement and large-scale land conversion, eastern habitats supported bison, elk, moose, woodland caribou, cranes, black bears, passenger pigeons, and Carolina parakeets. Many disappeared as forests were cleared, wetlands drained, and wildlife hunted.

Some losses were permanent. Other species have returned through reintroductions, habitat restoration, hunting restrictions, and long-term management, reports Mongabay’s Erik Hoffner. The state of Kentucky now has roughly 10,000 elk (Cervus canadensis) across a 16-county restoration zone, the largest herd east of the Mississippi. At Nachusa Grasslands in the state of Illinois, conservationists have restored tallgrass prairie on former farmland and reintroduced bison (Bison bison). Forest regrowth across parts of New England has helped moose, bears, fishers, and otters expand their ranges.

An interesting history of the main threats to some iconic American trees and the efforts to save them.

As an arborist I largely agree with the video's thesis that introduced pests and diseases remain the largest threat to our trees, ahead of some of the things that people more often think of, like logging or climate change.

How many lives would have been saved if European cities had taken urban forestry seriously over the past few decades?

Comedy video about going vegan that has a positive message I think people who care about animal welfare and the environment should be adopting more.

Joey nailing it yet again. Landscaping industry is in shambles.

Immigrant rights groups across the Central Coast are speaking out in response to early-morning raids conducted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on May 13, when federal agents served search warrants at several locations connected to community defense organization VC Defensa.

Federal agents knocked open doors to search four locations, including the VC Defensa’s business spaces and the home of organizer Leo Martinez, one of the most vocal immigrant rights advocates in the region. In a press conference the next day, Martinez said federal agents pointed guns at both him and his mother during the raids. While nobody was arrested, Martinez said the search warrants served as an example of ICE and DHS “bullying” community defense volunteers.