Despite vital talk of global warming and increased carbon levels from burning, one thing remains certain and even more primary: the earth is a world of fire. The oxygen that plants separate […]
Green and Not So Green Energy
I started this blog as a place in which to think about energy in the desert landscapes of British Columbia and Washington, in a way that also included beauty as part of […]
Reverse Nunataks
A nunatak is an unglaciated island of stone and a few survivor species in the midst of a glacial landscape. Recent studies in Sweden have shown that some Swedish spruce trees survived […]
There’s Gold in The Hills
By accident, we have turned our hills into giant gold sluices. Road Gutter, Okanagan Landing Note how it very efficiently sorts gravel out from water. The water is lost to the ecosystem, […]
Hints at a New Science of Life
The science of botany got its start in plant classification and botanical gardens. Because of that, contemporary human understanding of plant communities largely revolves around species and their interactions. The results can […]
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