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Reading the San Country Almanac again after many years, we are reminded of how little has anything changed… the 20th century was going to do what it was going to do, no awakening or ethical considerations would be allowed to defeat our progressive rush to cover all the land with concrete and sell it off, […]

CALYCANTHUS FAMILY (Calycanthaceae) Calycanthus occidentalis, Spicebush BUTTERCUP FAMILY (Ranunculaceae) Clematis lasiantha, Chaparral Clematis Clematis ligusticifolia, Western Virgin’s Bower BARBERRY FAMILY (Berberidaceae) Mahonia dictyota, Jepson’s Mahonia Mahonia nervosa, Long-leaf Mahonia Mahonia pinnata, Shiny-leaf Mahonia CACAO OR STERCULIA FAMILY (Sterculiaceae) Fremontodendron californicum, Flannel-bush MALLOW FAMILY (Malvaceae) Lavatera arborea, Tree Mallow Lavatera assurgentiflora, Malva Rosa Malacothamnus arcuatus Malacothamnus […]

Derived from work by Barbara R Bocek (work in progress) APPENDIX This summarizes the ethnographic uses of 157 plants known to Harrington’s Costanoan informants. Organization is generally consistent with Munz (1974), with some reference to Munz (1968) and to Munz and Keck (1959), and with genera and species listed alphabetically. Nonnative species are marked with […]

What is necessary to enable labor to produce these things, is land. When we speak of labor creating wealth, we speak metaphorically. Man creates nothing. The whole human race, were they to labor forever, could not create the tiniest mote that floats in a sunbeam—could not make this rolling sphere one atom heavier or one […]

blah balah blaha blah…contining blah Clustered Field Sedge Carex praegracilis CNPS blah Olive Green Cutworm Moth dargida procinctus CNPS looking back Umber Skipper Poanes melane (CNPS) on chaparral mallow malachothamnus fasciculatus Common Ringlet Coenonympha tullia blah Crossing where the water goes across the trail bkag we’re through Byxbee hill in distance…denuded of all life blah […]

from YES magazine How Neighbors Turned Unused Buildings into a Thriving Community Hub As rents rise and independent businesses in Minneapolis lose their leases to large national chains, a first-of-its-kind co-op found a solution. Fair State’s annual Co-Optoberfest brings Northeast Minneapolis together through beer, brats, and Bavarian-style merriment every fall. Photo by Davin Haukebo-Bol. After […]

​ TREE CANADA ANNOUNCES MAJOR INVESTMENT TO RESTORE FOREST AND URBAN GREENSPACES DESTROYED BY FORT MCMURRAY FIRES Edmonton, AB – February 2, 2017 – Tree Canada, the nation’s leading national tree planting charity, today announced a more than $1 million investment to restore the forests destroyed by the devastating Fort McMurray wildfires last year.  Following overwhelming […]

first lupine after many springs coexistence is possible, as a confederation of native environments, connected by Elk Trails