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Dan Carter

Dan Carter

@prairiebotanist.com

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Ecologist of Midwestern fire-dependent ecosystems & volunteer land steward @ Mukwonago River Oak Barrens. Opinions mine. Among them is the need to stop viewing grasslands, savannas, & woodlands through a productivist lens. He/Him

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Dan Carter @prairiebotanist.com · 1d

More greenwashing. Cattle have NO business on a savanna preserve in SE Iowa. #prairie nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Ranchers are using ‘virtual fencing’ to move their cattle — and help save prairies

Virtual fencing uses GPS collars, sounds and electrical cues to move cattle across a landscape. Along with saving ranchers time, researchers say this new technology can help protect, and create, wildl...

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Dan Carter @prairiebotanist.com · 1d

If this had not come out, I probably would have sent this campaign a trivial donation. Democrats need to provide options that aren't octogenarians, but almost all men that present like this are frauds. Yet, I was starting to build some hope around this guy...but Nazi tattoo. JFC.

Dan Carter @prairiebotanist.com · 1d

Dan Carter @prairiebotanist.com · 9d

egg-regious

Dan Carter @prairiebotanist.com · 9d

The comments here are exactly why we are regressing right now . JFC direct it at the enemy, and political reality will allow for better policy. The right is so much better at that (voters and who they elect).

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 10d

Photos coming out of Western AK are devastating.

Hardest hit are indigenous villages off road system, many miles by air from supplies. Most built on river deltas w/ no high ground to which to escape.

Cuts to NASA/NOAA mean worse weather data. Cuts to EPA mean no grants for erosion control. Etc.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 10d

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Homes flooded in Kipnuk

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

Dan Carter @prairiebotanist.com · 10d

Of course most of our land is wasted on a gas additive and CAFO feed...we could produce more energy and real food and completely abandon a huge fraction of it.

Dan Carter @prairiebotanist.com · 10d

A better solution even than planting prairie is a just having a shifting patchwork of fallow land, because common milkweed finds it on its own, and so do the monarchs.

Dan Carter @prairiebotanist.com · 10d

I'm very happy if people plant prairies, and it helps monarchs a bit, but common milkweed is transient, and often the more conservative milkweeds with staying power aren't used, or only in a limited way.

Dan Carter @prairiebotanist.com · 10d

A lot of that is in the research USFWS presented with the proposed listing. We can plant prairies, and that helps a little, but the reality is common milkweed is transient. The real solution is something there is no political will to do--make ag less profoundly toxic to life.

Dan Carter @prairiebotanist.com · 10d

Yeah before roundup-ready crops, ag probably meant *more* milkweed.

Dan Carter @prairiebotanist.com · 15d

Oh well.

Dan Carter @prairiebotanist.com · 19d

woodsandprairie.blogspot.com/2025/09/scyt...

Repeat scything of aggressive species facilitates recovery of herbaceous conservatives.

This report - including failures and successes - was submitted to the Cook County Forest Preserves. It is unfinished and will be updated as...

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Dan Carter @prairiebotanist.com · 19d

This is the kind of greenwashing that people literally eat up.

Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 19d

For 20 years The Nature Conservancy’s Zumwalt Prairie has been billed as a model for “sustainable grazing.”
I walked in expecting a conservation success story.
What I found looked a lot more like a feedlot in waiting. 🧵

The Zumwalt Prairie

Dan Carter @prairiebotanist.com · 19d

Fascists are to blame. Yes Democratic leadership are mostly cowards and need to be replaced, but fascists doing fascist things and voters voting for fascists are to blame. That issue at that time did not decide the election either.

Dan Carter @prairiebotanist.com · 24d

Very little around here looks so good, but I could certainly direct you to some of the better spots.

Dan Carter @prairiebotanist.com · 24d

My native state simply sucks. It’s run by cowards and sell-outs on one hand and sell-outs and bigots on the other.

The Gazette @thegazette.com · 24d

State panel revokes Des Moines superintendent’s license following his arrest by federal immigration officers

State panel revokes Des Moines superintendent's license following Friday arrest

A state educational licensing board has revoked the license of Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts following his arrest by federal immigration officers last week.

www.thegazette.com

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Kurt Vonnegut @kurt-vonnegut.bsky.social · Sep 23

“How could he amount to anything if he did not use loaded dice? How has he used loaded dice with you? The laws that say he can fire anybody who stands up for the rights of workers—those are loaded dice. The policemen who protect his property rights but not your human rights—those are loaded dice."

Dan Carter @prairiebotanist.com · 24d

Fastastic!

Dan Carter @prairiebotanist.com · 24d

Differential grazing history may have also affected the soil.

Dan Carter @prairiebotanist.com · 25d

And she believed it. She needs primaried

Dan Carter @prairiebotanist.com · 27d

Got refunded. I was told that they were sure of the plants the seeds came from but that sometimes the asters cross. Hmmm...these weren't intermediate in any discernable way, and I hope they check again.

Dan Carter @prairiebotanist.com · 28d

Really none of them ought to be.

Dan Carter @prairiebotanist.com · 28d

Grammatical error in Abstract!

Dan Carter @prairiebotanist.com · 28d

I scrutinize all plants I receive now closely. In some instances I've stopped ordering from vendors. In any case usually refrain from ordering things for which ID a little difficult (shouldn't be for growers though).