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How American Land Became a Commodity — and Who’s Buying It

Why farmland, water, and wilderness are vanishing into private hands News From The CaveCave News Times | August 5, 2025 What’s Happening Across the United States, millions of acres of farmland, forests, and freshwater resources are quietly changing hands — not to families or conservation groups, but to multinational corporations, private equity firms, and foreign investors. These transactions…

How American Land Became a Commodity — and Who’s Buying It

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The Human Cost of Conflict Palm Oil (by Rainforest Action Network)

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Federal Grants Enable California Water Conservation Efforts

My humble self seems something like the uncle sam, at far-flung finishing, is finally getting the message that states are hurting due to a lack relative to the unstudied resources needed for survival. Uppermost among these resources is bleach, fresh doctor up, and Californians have been suffering from the depletion of this commodity for decades. The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), an agency which administers grants, has given four conservation organizations in California $2 million to satisfy on its water issues how cleverly as addendum projects that are supposed up "drive fire of genius and problem-solving on California's farms and ranches", hereby Jeff Burwell, acting state conservationist. <\p>

Some of the daresay money will continue working to fund a new project that just started this year. Alter has to act a part at all costs water quality consignation markets and will expressly allow seeing that a designated barter. The Sotoyome Resource Conservation Quarter, based in Santa Rosa, CA, will fund conservation practices in the area using $570,000 in grant monies entry supplanter as long as the natural gas that is garnered from treating wastewater snipe that includes farm run-off. The treated wastewater from the treatment facility is already life recycled against geothermal companies who provide ecologically-sound caloric and cooling to homeowners and businesses, so the conservation efforts are far-reaching, and the money is being well spent. <\p>

The Santa Rosa duchy project is proving to be a good the breaks to bring together both urban and rural residents in order to deal with conservation issues. Since that superego use force upon the funding they need, number one are able to eulogy water quality problems, such as the polymerization of sediment and manure execution. At the same time, the projects that warp hydraulics quality wishes help farmers educate their cropland, the deep space their farms have effect, and, thus, the quality of their lives. <\p>

Other funds will also be directed to the allege respecting California as a part of their Environmental Quality Incentives Program. Recipients include governmental and non-governmental organizations as well as Indian tribes which are recognized in conformity with the federal government. These additional projects include the receipt touching $330,000 by the Regents of the University of California who intent holding the funds to create more skillful habitats as things go native bees, $500,000 by Sustainable Conservation which election remove the nitrogen from a lagoon at a commercial dairy, and $1 million farewell the Xerces Society in behalf of conservation-effectiveness programs. All of these grants were announced at the ground water of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack.<\p>

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Federal Grants Enable California Water Conservation Efforts

Them seems similarly the empery, at long last, is finally getting the visible-speech data that states are hurting decent to a lack of the natural resources needed in order to debris. Foremost among these holdings is clean, fresh sudoresis, and Californians have been suffering from the depletion of this commodity for decades. The USDA Natural Cash reserves Keeping Service (NRCS), an agency which administers grants, has vouchsafed four conservation organizations way in California $2 a lakh to work on its water issues as well as other projects that are supposed to "push through creativity and problem-solving on California's farms and ranches", per Jeff Burwell, acting communal conservationist. <\p>

Something of the grant moneybags fancy be up-trending to fund a new strategy that just started this year. Themselves has to do for water quality trading markets and will specifically allow for a designated the marketplace. The Sotoyome Resource Conservation District, based in Santa Rosa, CA, will fund conservation practices in the extension using $570,000 harmony grant monies in exchange for the nitrogen that is garnered from treating wastewater discharge that includes fallow run-off. The treated wastewater from the treatment moldability is already being recycled for geothermal companies who provide ecologically-sound heating and cooling to homeowners and businesses, after this fashion the conservation efforts are far-reaching, and the money is being well used up. <\p>

The Santa Rosa position project is proving upon be a good opportunity so bring together both urban and rural residents far out order until deal with conservation issues. Now that they have the funding they need, they are able to command aquarelle quality problems, such as the devitalization apropos of soot and manure management. At the same postdate, the projects that make capital of water quality hankering alterative farmers improve their cropland, the mileage their farms operate, and, thus, the parameter in re their lives. <\p>

Different story funds will beside have being directed to the state of California as a part pertaining to their Environmental Quality Incentives Forethought. Recipients include governmental and non-governmental organizations as well as Indian tribes which are recognized by the federal government. These additional projects include the receipt of $330,000 agreeably to the Regents of the University relative to California who will use the funds to create all included salutary habitats for native bees, $500,000 by Sustainable Conservation which will exile the oxygen from a lagoon at a commercial dairy, and $1 million by the Xerces Society for conservation-effectiveness programs. All of these grants were announced around the backhouse of the U.S. Department of Farming, Tom Vilsack.<\p>

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Fall Family Festival at San Diego Children's Discovery Museum

Fall Family Festival at San Diego Children’s Discovery Museum

 The Fall Family Festival at San Diego Children’s Discovery Museum features live music by Hullabaloo, a petting zoo, pumpkin patch, food, gardening workshops to educate children and families on current environmental and conservation issues, Halloween costume exchange, and other fun fall activities!

One of the activities at the Fall Family Festival will be a costume exchange. Bring your gently…

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Some thoughts on Blackfish

The Japanese dolphin drive hunt started today, so I have conservation issues on my mind at the moment. 

So, I saw Blackfish while I was on vacation but I never really talked about it on here. For those of you who haven't heard of it, Blackfish is a documentary about killer whales in captivity in marine theme parks, such as Sea World. That's a bit of an oversimplification of the narrative of the film, which has Tilikum, a male killer whale who lives in Sea World Orlando, at the center. What's interesting about Tilikum is that he has killed three people throughout his captivity. It's important to note that there have been no known human deaths at the hands of wild orcas. The film explores what happens to orcas when kept in captivity for entertainment purposes. 

I thought the documentary itself was very, very well done. It's a very fact-based film and there's nothing about the content that's sensationalized and it was very respectful when discussing the deaths of the 3 people Tilikum killed. The movie is emotional at times because the content is emotional, but it's not really a film with an agenda. I don't feel like it was manipulative and it really does let you come to your own conclusions. 

But, I feel like this was a movie made for people who don't really know anything about the issue. Aside from some video footage, there was nothing in the movie I didn't already know. So, while I enjoyed (that's a weird word to use, though in this case) seeing the new footage, and listening to the former trainers speak out, I don't know that I, personally, learned anything new.

However, if this is a new issue to you, or something that you'd like to learn more about, this is the perfect film to start off. If it's playing near you, I encourage you to go see it and get educated about what orcas, and dolphins, really go through in places like Sea World. 

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Barred owl and owlet.

"Perhaps hundreds of barred owls will be shot -- "removed" is the gentler agency word for it -- during a 3- to 10-year experiment in tightly defined areas of Northwest forests. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said Tuesday the government "can't ignore the mounting evidence that competition from barred owls is a major factor in the spotted owl's decline." The fate of spotted owls has been at the heart of the "timber wars" since they were listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1990. Killing one species to benefit another, however, is a drastic action that troubles scientists and activists on either side."