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Don’t Kill A Tree For Christmas. Consider the LIVING Alternative.
Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree, How Lovely Are Thy Branches! Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree, I Wish They’d Leave You On The Ranches! It Makes No Sense, With Climate Change, To Hack You Down, Contract Your Range, You Hold The Carbon Oh So Well, To Keep Our Planet From Turning Into HELL, Oh […]
Back By Popular Demand–Regional Op-Ed. CA: Democracy, Land Use, and Mass Extinctions.
By far, one of the most requested columns I have written. First published by Yuba Net in 2007. Thanks to all that have requested it through the years and understand its importance including former Yuba County Board of Supervisor, Hal Stocker, who was dedicated to protecting the natural beauty of Yuba County. That there be […]
Got Frogs?
California is confused about its nature, literally. For a state that over the past decade has repulsed anything with the letters G, O, P in it, it now manages its own nature through a political program set up by George Bush Jr. Perhaps you’ve heard of it and yes, like anything else associated with George […]
Tribute Trail, Nevada City, CA
Title: Tribute Trail. A Tribute to What? For ten+ years I have been trying to expose this issue as the fraud it is–clearing native vegetation for “fire safety”. Here we go again with the “Tribute Trail” project. In every major fire in CA, areas that were cleared (paid for with public monies) burned to the […]
MAKE IT STOP–A SINGALONG ABOUT W. NEVADA COUNTY’S NEW GOLD RUSH
Sung to the tune of “Let’s Fall In Love” (We keep having to add more and more verses, refrains, to this. We do realize this affects the flow–sorry) Congressmen Do It, “Land Conservancies” Do It, County Engineers Do It, Lotsa’ Fire, Fed, and State Agencies Do it, State Parks, the CCC, and P and G […]
Fling an Acorn for Future Generations!
“HEY, THERE’S A TREE IN THERE!!” Look at all those acorns just lying around in the road, going to waste! C’mon, join the fun!! It’s ACORN FLINGING!! How do you do it? By flinging every healthy hearty acorn you see off the road back into the woods! It’s fun AND convenient!! How many can you […]
The Plant We All Love to Hate
“It has these, well, awful thorny things that stick in my dog’s paws, in my tennis shoes, and they HURT! I hate this plant and we pull it out and there it is again!“ Even before you finish explaining what you saw, I know you’re talking about PUNCTURE VINE (Tribulus terrestris) or as it is […]