@desertbotany

Botany M.S 🌱✨@CABotanicGarden ✨🌱 From Taiwan 🇹🇼 Stoked on floristics, cats, & environmental justice 🌈 BLM

 Mojave Desert
Joined January 2021
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Prairie strips are a farm conservation practice that requires minimal intervention and delivers huge benefits By converting 10% of cropland to native prairie, farmers can reduce soil loss by 95%, total phosphorous loss by 90%, and total nitrogen loss by 85% A quick summary:
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Scenes from conducting rare plant surveys in areas of the California desert where solar projects are either already proposed or are vulnerable to future development. Is this a landscape we want to "sacrifice"? Is it really a "green alternative" if we clearcut ecosystems?
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We should demand rooftop solar and other less destructive ways of utilizing this technology. This destruction of the desert is akin to the old growth clear-cutting of the 20th century. Large scale solar kills life.
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So it never was about being green, it is about going zero to 60 in three seconds. Your message is "we can continue to waste energy as long as we mine the planet to extinction for "green" minerals," Try thinking outside of the box and using less and saving resources.
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@POTUS46Archive30 Jan 2023
On my watch, the great American road trip is going to be fully electrified. And now, through a tax credit, you can get up to $7,500 on a new electric vehicle.
President Biden test drives an electric vehicle.

ALT President Biden test drives an electric vehicle.

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📢Calling all Botanists! BLM is in the early phases of permitting for the Rhyolite Ridge Lithium Mine which would drive Tiehm's buckwheat to extinction. Join me to take a stand against extinction & save Tiehm's buckwheat. Please sign on! #Teambuckwheat forms.gle/iT2iQUgbrxEo6Rj47
I am on team buckwheat to save Tiehm's buckwheat

ALT I am on team buckwheat to save Tiehm's buckwheat

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Bureau of Land Mangement just told us they no longer support "vegetation mowing" for solar projects because it is "more destructve" than traditional clearing. They now promote "drive and crush" - the idea that 50,000 pound vehiciles run over all plants have the least impact.😵‍💫
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Hey #BotanyTwitter, @desertbotany and I worked on a syllabus for a course called Botany & Society aka 'power plants people'. We're leading discussion on it this semester. It includes topics on colonial botany, capitalism & extraction, and diversity, & inclusion issues & more.
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The BLM's big plan to turn your public lands into a big solar shit show. Register here for virtual public meeting tomorrow. blm.gov/2023-solar-programma…
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These photos say all. Photo one by Teresa Pierce of thousand year old desert ironwood trees killed in minutes for the Oberon Solar Project near Desert Center, CA. Second photo by BRW is the before. This does not save the planet. This is insanity masked as green.
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I have never seen this #grassland type: upland Alkali sacaton (Sporobolus airoides) at Rhyolite Ridge Nevada. Perhaps unique minerals in rocks. These lands would be dug out for massive open-pit Lithium extraction. @bitterwaterblue is working to conserve Tiehm’s buckwheat here 👍
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The Biden Adminstration has also recently opened up millions of other acres of public lands to oil and gas drilling. Their "decarbonization" statements are largely BS, but they do intend replace a lot of biodiversity with solar panels. reuters.com/business/environ…

U.S. will consider new priority areas for solar energy on public lands

The Biden administration on Monday said it would begin a process to identify new areas for solar development in the Western United States to ramp up permitting of clean energy projects on public...

reuters.com
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Queer femmes in botany come hang! #Botany2022
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See ya at #Botany2022! I'll be presenting a poster of the flora I'm writing for my masters thesis in the Silver Peaks of Nevada. As seen in this Dean Taylor map, Nevada is the biggest floristic blackhole in the west - documentation can help with conservation efforts. Come say hi!
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Met my dream girl this weekend, Canbya candida, the pygmy poppy!! This little one is endemic to southern California and fairly rare (4.2). How could you ever resist?
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Today #Teambuckwheat inches closer to gaining protection for #Eriogonum tiehmii! @USFWS proposed 910 acres of critical habitat, an essential step to protecting this species. HOORAY for Tiehm's buckwheat! 💚biologicaldiversity.org/w/ne…

Critical Habitat Protections Proposed for Tiehm’s Buckwheat

Center for Biological Diversity: All Populations of Rare Nevada Wildflower Threatened By Lithium Mine to Be Protected

biologicaldiversity.org
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Arctomecon humilis, the smallest and arguably the cutest of the rare bear poppies, lookin real fine this week!
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Out here putting the 'fun' back into in the Funeral Mountains (Timbisha Shoshone land) with Salvia funerea and Sisyrinchium funereum!
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Arctomecon merriamii in Death Valley NP this past week! It seemed to be one of the few enthusiastic bloomers despite the dry year. Anyone know who the little visiting bee is?
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Was lucky to have a surprise encounter with the intensely aromatic Phacelia palmeri! Its another awesome endemic that grows in the lunar-landscape like gypsum crusts near Lake Mead. Just look at those glandular hairs!
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