very much worth rereading as the utah lawsuit raises the same specter of wholesale privatization of public lands that devoto was writing against www.bernarddevoto.org?p=94
(this is actually kind of a fun one, it's Penstemon frucitiformis far north of the supposed range of var. amargosae but with an evidently glandular corolla, which only that variety is supposed to have! others have observed the same phenomenon a few times)
yep, people sometimes fail to grasp the scale and impact of the proposed solar development in nevada, which doesn't have the benefit of a planning structure like the california DRECP. BRW & CBD (& amargosa conservancy) are doing necessary work, and it's not good that BLM dismisses them every time
Concluding our regional series is this incredible episode on the West, covering violent and internecine workers’ struggles in agriculture, freight, canneries, and logistics (connected industries), as well as the wartime aviation boom
it is the weekend but i'm masochistically wishing i was in the carex dungeon (the supply closet at work where i have my microscope and a million carex specimens from this summer's fen surveys)
not sure how common this is but i've spoken with enough colleagues who have similar stories to know it's not just me--did anyone else go from being a kid who was obsessed with knowing every dinosaur, watching the crocodile hunter, etc. to "not liking science" by the end of high school?
they do mention it in one paragraph, but would like to see this analysis incorporate population numbers to see how much of the effect is people moving away vs. not turning out
fun fact, this plant was nearly wiped out because the soil it grown on is good for kitty litter--a mine was proposed but thankfully halted by the state's critically endangered plant rules
Eriogonum diatomaceum is an edaphic endemic with a very narrow range in western nevada. when we visited this year, they were being pollinated by hundreds of tarantula hawks, which reportedly have some of the most painful stings in the world (no personal experience thankfully)
yes, mostly plants + conservation. i work in natural resources/management rather than academia/research so a bit of a different focus than many of the plant packs i've seen passed around
a personal favorite nevada rare plant: Astragalus lentiginosus var. seaquimetralis. alkali playa margins and spring runoff areas in the west-central part of the state. the name means "half meter" in latin and you can see that it lives up to it
