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[slopforhogs]

“Babirusa” by muzina_shanghai, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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[janedoemayb]

I just learned about the white bears of British Columbia. How did I not know this before?

[blondebrainpowered]

Leucistic Loon on a remote lake in British Columbia, Canada.

Photographer: Chris Whitty

[todaysbird]

Today’s bird are these rooks who spend the winters here with their flock, and watched and followed a European Red Squirrel to its cache, and after it had left with its walnut, plundered the rest of it.

[nabsthevulture]

Can we get a group picture of the research coyotea?

These are both full of coyotes, I do not desire dragging them all out m'friend

[nabsthevulture]

Fine. Here’s the tub squad, not including more that I do not feel like pulling out

KO-FI

[janedoemayb]

I can’t find the Kamchatka Bear doc anywhere for free.

[janedoemayb]

I need a cozy night in. Does any body have a rec for a nature documentary that they enjoyed lately? Any subject is cool.

[janedoemayb]

I’m looking at Kamchatka Bears: Life Begins or Backyard Bears of Transylvania. Have you seen either of those?

[janedoemayb]

I started with Backyard Bears of Transylvania.

My experience with the recommended site (ihavenotv.com) was a little sketch but I found it available in a few other places. Stop reading now, if you don’t want spoilers.

If you watch, you will get to see beautiful bears (lots of cub footage) and scenery. The historical bits mentioned in the blurb comprised no more than 2 mins of the film. The rest of the film was the same sad story we’ve had in the US: people feeding bears, bears losing their fear of people, the expected consequences.

In the case of Romania it appears to made worse by overpopulation, wild bears were bred to be hunted by a previous leader. Tho it wasn’t addressed in the film, I suspect old cultural norms also contribute. If I’m not mistaken, restaurant/roadside bears were legal there until they were forced to change their wildlife laws in order to join the EU. So feeding bears might still seem ‘normal’ to some folks. I saw a film about the bear rescues a while back. I think it was from vier pfoten/four paws. I recommend all of their rescue docs, if you can handle the sad parts.

[janedoemayb]

I need a cozy night in. Does any body have a rec for a nature documentary that they enjoyed lately? Any subject is cool.

[janedoemayb]

I’m looking at Kamchatka Bears: Life Begins or Backyard Bears of Transylvania. Have you seen either of those?

[janedoemayb]

I need a cozy night in. Does any body have a rec for a nature documentary that they enjoyed lately? Any subject is cool.

[nabsthevulture]

This bucket smelled like fart just fyi

[headspace-hotel]

I have no patience for negativity toward "boomers" anymore.

Almost everybody doing the work to restore ecosystems, grow native plants, and preserve rare species is 50 or older

The people I work with IRL have told me that my presence is encouraging because it means "the younger generation is getting involved with this stuff too." There's really not very many people my age

Who do you think was fighting this fight in the 1970's

[headspace-hotel]

I'm saying this as a Gen Z who is woefully lacking in these skills

Social media and the internet have really decimated my generation's ability to network and organize with people IRL

Not in the sense that That Damn Phone causes your skills to atrophy, but rather, Gen Z has no idea how people organized before social media, and no idea what anyone over 40 is doing for good in the world

The vast majority of local native plant, wildlife, and gardening organizations have NO social media presence

I could never have understood this until I started working IRL with people who are absolute powerhouses of knowledge, resources, and action about plants, animals, ecosystems, and conservation...who simply, barely know how to email

[headspace-hotel]

Google is not a resource

It can link you to a few resources, but it is ultimately a complicated device to make you Buy Product

Google will not even show you the best websites out there for learning about the ecosystem. At all. Google recognizes few possible interpretations of your query other than "Google, show me a bunch of advertisements for [thing] so I can Buy Product." If your research doesn't end in Buy Product, Google has no interest in helping you.

Many people think that the way of finding things out before Google was books

But that's more wrong than right.

The way of finding things out before Google was community.

Because there's some old lady in your community who has been gardening and observing wildlife for 40 years who is somehow running a sprawling native plant gardening organization and providing everyone else in your town with seeds and random produce, and she has a library's worth of knowledge absorbed from reading every book and talking to every guy who has any experience about plants, and this old lady has 87 close friends who are somehow involved in every local governmental department and private organization and business, and if she can't answer your question herself, she will be able to hand you a little scrap of note paper with the name of the exact person you need to talk to. She doesn't have an email address

[headspace-hotel]

Gen Z seems to regard "having connections" as a bad thing and a way of cheating your way into opportunities that you don't deserve

In reality, it's "opportunities" and "deserve" that indicates something deeply wrong and dysfunctional with our society. Outside of the numerous artificial competitive scenarios we are placed in where we strive against others to perform the ideal persona of worthiness as a human being, "having connections" is just how things get done.

Same with "being a Karen." Taking out your petty frustrations on a powerless retail worker is one thing, summoning every ounce of Upstanding Member Of Society in your middle aged white woman body to rend asunder the guy who approved of bulldozing a wetland is another

[headspace-hotel]

@false-binaries I mean honestly that's not far off

1. go to physical place that seems closest to the thing you want to learn about (community garden is great, nature center or farmer's market is also great)

2. observe a person that seems open to chatting with others

3. ask something along the lines of "Hi, I've been trying to learn about [thing], but I'm pretty new to it, do you happen to know anything about it?" Express curiosity about the work done by the place you are in

4. If you manage to hit it off with someone, just kinda hang out. Other people will show up to chat with the person you are talking to. You are now talking to those people as well.

to be fair this works very well for me partly because it's the south and people will talk for 30 minutes after meeting in the middle of the grocery store. but we need to normalize community

[theexhaustedmermaid]

Libraries are great for this! Also, just hang around places you know there's people interested in what you're interested in.

I used to participate in a knitting circle at my library. Met all sorts of people there without a email or any social media. At the aquarium I volunteer at, there's an old dude who is very passionate about whales and he sits in front of the beluga exhibit every Thursday. He knows everything about local ocean conservation and collaborates with the local river keepers. Again, no social media and only has a joint email with his wife.

Thing to keep in mind is these people love to talk about their interests so you'll get lots of info. You can also check local news papers as many people put community events in there!

[glorious-spoon]

^ can recommend libraries, professionally. also check out cooperative extension programs - they can be a great way to connect with people who are into this kind of thing

and yeah. local newspapers! the actual print copy, which you can also probably find at your local library. plenty of places still do the bulk of their advertising there

[leebrontide]

I can not overemphasize that gardeners WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT PLANTS.

I sit my ass on my urban front porch and people walk by and ask me about my plants. It’s FANTASTIC. It’s also normal culture for gardeners because a lot of us get free plants/seeds this way.

I’m in my 40s, bridging that gap between seniors with no email and zoomers with no land. I can direct either towards resources and yes I DO know where you can get involved and yes I DO have milkweed seeds but you do need to refrigerate them before you plant them.

Seriously if you see someone tending a native plant garden they are dying to tell you about it and shove cuttings at you I promise.

[identitty-dickruption]

sometimes you have to take a long hard look in the mirror and say. okay buddy. you stayed up until 2am stressing about shit. you had a nightmare last night. you’re exhausted. don’t expect anything special from yourself today and don’t handle any dangerous goods. sparkle on

[deadbirdsdaily]

When you donate a salvaged bird to the museum, please record as many location details as possible. The more data we have on a bird, the more valuable they are to research which in turn helps living birds!

Coordinates are great! If you just put the address, consider recording the county. Yes, I can and do look up the county but my hands are usually covered in dead bird, so it’s less fun. You get a gold star from me if you write down the county!

That being said “my deck” did make me laugh more than it should.

[janedoemayb]

Hope you don't mind a visit from the happiness train. No pressure. ♥️ tell us five things that make you happy! and then send this to ten people who liked or reblogged something from you :-)

Thanks for stopping at my station. 1. unexpected messages (and expected ones too) from friends really brighten my day 2. spending time in the woods, the river, or the ocean 3. the perfect hoodie 4. good, loud, live music 5. discovering new things, literally and figuratively 6. MailArt

not necessarily in that order

[earthenremains]

~stillwater~

[itsthebeastpeddler]

New babies in the shop tonight! Livestock Restock :)

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[3liza]

Rough Treatment #6 - Bony Aristocrat

graphite on paper ~4.5 x 8" 2013

[for sale]

This piece has a small ivory stain on the upper part of the page. This is intentional. Page will be shipped flat with standard USPS shipping in a protective Tyvek envelope with cardboard backing. The Rough Treatment series is a collection of sketchbook pages that became a little more “finished” than sketchbook pages usually do. They are offered as an affordable option for patrons to own original art.