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Photo of a Cladonia podetium that is comprised of a thick stalk that’s grey in colour and covered in green scales/squamules plus apothecia at the top that are brown in colour with a bubbly/lumpy surface.
Cladonia sp lichen. NWT, Canada.
Lichen is about 3cm high. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends
Photo of about a third of a large, round, yellow lichen growing flat on reddish/purplish rock. The right half of the photo is lichen, the left half is bare rock. The lichen consists of a middle with a sugared, grainy appearance…hundreds of tightly packed branches radiate outward from the centre.
Polycaulinia sp lichen. #Newfoundland, Canada. Photo covers about 6cm top to bottom. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends
found 3 leatherback turtles in the last 2 days. they migrate between ponds normally but the backyard one is the only one still wet. I catch them up in a rubbermaid and dump them back. a multi acre pond about 4 football pitches away is bone dry. NWFL is really hurting for rain🐢
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
Blue herons are very shy here. Nice to see one closer.
And last summer, our local nursery sold potted Rhodiola rhodantha and it took off and babies in the pot took off. Flowered into November!
I've been growing them for maybe 8 years. They keep producing seed every year! It loves Zone 4 with our long cold winters. It's a LOT of work to harvest, clean, chop, and dry the roots. But it's worth growing my own and saving the wild ones in nature.
I grow a lot of unusual plants.
left to right: Dolomiaea costus (2nd year), Salvia miltiorrhiza (1st year), Acorus calamus (4th year), Prunella vulgaris (upper right), and below that is Rhodiola rosea.
They'll be here in a few months. But until then...wow.
Truckers cannot afford to run their trucks at these prices.
Just about everything you buy moves by truck.
Including all those things we order online.
Costs will be passed on to Americans.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
The copper, lumber, and coal barons shaped today's politics in Montana.
www.mtmemory.org/nodes/view/1...
Not everyone gets Montana. It's because our state was once controlled by the coal and lumber barons.
The Montana Plan:
a breakthrough legal strategy, will stop corporate and dark money cold.
montanaplan.org
“Purity is a notion that has been sold to native people through the colonial system.”
– Jill Falcon Mackin, Gichi Bizhiki, IN: Anishinaabe Sovereignty, The Seasonal Round, And Resistance To The Colonization Of The Web Of Life. Montana State University, PhD thesis 2021.
Part 2: Morus rubra-alba, is a hybridized species between white (silkworm species from Asia) and red mulberry from Northeastern U.S. This hybrid is more resilient to climate warming than either species.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdfr...
The white mulberry was originally brought to North America as early as the 1600s to establish a silkworm industry. It never took off and so now we have it in the northeast.
Mulberries: A Biopolitical Love Story:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7HT...
Mulberries have an interesting history in North America.
Will begin fruiting at only 3 years, and will produce for a century or more!
www.montanafruittrees.com/collections/...
A collage grid of six pics of flowers from my various bits of early spring Garden, a bunch of miniature yellow daffodils, an orange geum, a bunch of snowdrops (late ones),a double white hellebore with red speckles, a pale blue windflower and a very purple iris reticulata.
Happy #SixOnSaturday sky-folk, six pics from my garden this week where we've had a few nice days but are back to grey and rainy now. British weather is changeable at the best of times but in March you have to expect a bit of everything, sometimes all in the same afternoon 🤣🌱
#Bloomscrolling
3 varieties of lichen together on a stick in the snow
We are better together. 🥰🙏
#nature #love #trees #lichen
3:18 "Montana is a really interesting state..."
Yes it is.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD4V...
HJ140 would permit a Chilean mining company to sulfide mine near the Boundary Waters in Minnesota. (link in comments)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD4V...
Land to Hand is a grassroots, community organization founded by farmers, eaters, business leaders, and food system planners from around the Flathead Valley.
landtohandmt.org/about-us/
Four important Indigenous land management techniques...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH5z...
holy crap! Steve! Get home safe!
Close-up photograph of a dried burdock burr with many curved hook-like spines against a black background. A translucent grey banner overlays the image with the text: “Article: Turning Bio-Inspired Ideas Into Patents. Brook Kennedy with Anna Bieri.” Footer text reads: “Zygote Quarterly 39 | vol 3 | 2025 | ISSN 1927-8314 | Pg 101 of 124.”
As bio-inspired design grows, questions about IP emerge, particularly about the line between nature-inspired and tech innovation
Brook Kennedy & Anna Marion explore these complexities in their article
As co-editor of ZQ, I’m excited to share this piece
pg 100: zqjournal.org/pdfs/ZQ_issu...
