The economy is in free fall.
The markets are collapsing.
Our soldiers are dying.
Our sensitive information is being leaked over text message and gmail.
Random people are being kidnapped and sent to foreign torture prisons.
And Trump is fucking golfing.
“Public education, is the bulwark of democracy” -unknown
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RESIST ✊🏼
They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we are seeds.
Balsamroot is a composite flower (like all asters). Each of the petals is actually a “floret” bearing one enormous petal and a few minute ones creating a “ray floret”, which creates the illusion of a ring of petals.
Balsamorhiza sagittata -
Arrowleaf Balsamroot
Spring is upon us. I’m ready to be in the Grass Valley for this years Balsamroot bloom! Nearly all parts were used as a food source by the indigenous peoples. Asters rule!
Grass Valley, OR
#spring #easternoregon
#pnw #aster #sunflower
Suspension Bridge xkcd.com/3048
Calypso bulbosa - Fairy Slipper
This perennial orchid relies on the art of deception for pollination as it does not provide nectar. Most fairy slippers’ are reliant on one of several mycorrhizal fungi for germination.
Spring 2022, Willamette National Forest, OR
#botany #flower #nature #pnw
#neat
A lush, green forest, mostly in shadows, with sunlight rays highlighting moss dangling from tree branches.
A forest of shadow and light in western Washington state, USA
#Landscapes #landscapephotos #photos #washingtonstate
Grasswidow - Olsynium douglasii var. douglasii - coastal to cascade crest variation.
The anthers (pollen bearers) on these are just lovely. Native to North America from Vancouver island to California.
Hood River, Oregon. Spring 2024.
#botany #flowers #pnw #oregon
A diverse group of five scientists in a lab in Borneo, Indonesia. Copyright Tom Kimmerer
I have proudly been a scientist my whole life. We are now watching the deliberate destruction of American science at the hands of the corrupt regime. Data is disappearing, young scientists are not getting paid, free speech is crushed. We can fix this, but we don't have much time to undo the harm. 🧪🌏
A yellow row of tiny, horn-shaped decay fungi known as Dacryopinax spathularia. They are growing on top of. black-painted oak fence, which the fungus is consuming for energy. Copyright Tom Kimmerer
As a botany undergrad, I studied mycology. Fungi were thought of as non-green plants in the kingdom Plantae. Now, thanks to modern genetics, we know that fungi are more like very slow animals, in the clade Opisthokonta. A mushroom is closer to your dog than to a tree.
Lichen and moss covering a hillside along a mountain trail
Lichen and moss seen along
Thunder creek trail
Rockport WA
I love it there
My favorite cosplay is deer eating fresh Douglas fir tips
That’s so fucking metal
This is the reply I was looking for!
Dog vomit slime mold (Fuligo septica) !!!
#slimemold #eatityoucoward
This is important. Nature-based education and experience, from very young age to very old can’t fix all the ills of society, but it is a big step in the right direction. It connects us to the real world and helps us understand what is really important.
Hypholoma spp. breaking down a nursery log.
A common fungal saprophyte (organisms dependent on dead or decaying matter) in western cascade temperate forests.
A child hugging a massive tree that appears to be smiling
Beauty is in the eye of the treeholder
“We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remembering a day I had the privilege to survey this high elevation, old growth mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana) stand. Oregon,USA.
#natureisneat #ancientforests #oregon
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For this #FireScarFriday, I'd like to share our new paper titled "Spatiotemporal synchrony of climate and fire occurrence across North American forests (1750–1880)" 🧪🔥
We used 1159 fire scar sites to conduct this study!
We found that ...
Up close and personal with the stomatal bloom of Abies procera (Noble fir). Look at those pores!
Peltigera neopolydactyla!
