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| <blockquote> **It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here.** So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. | <blockquote> **It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here.** So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. |
| <cite>Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire</cite></blockquote> | <cite>Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire</cite></blockquote> |
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| Sometimes we overlook the obvious that is right in front of us. This exercise is designed to help us pay attention to the entities of the landscape. | Sometimes we overlook the obvious that is right in front of us. This exercise is designed to help us pay attention to the entities of the landscape. |
| **Reflections:** List things you noticed about this thing that you did not notice before? Has your feelings or thoughts about this entity changed and if so, how? Next, draw parts of the entity that you found most compelling. | **Reflections:** List things you noticed about this thing that you did not notice before? Has your feelings or thoughts about this entity changed and if so, how? Next, draw parts of the entity that you found most compelling. |
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| <blockquote>A growing number of studies suggest a dim future for desert dwellers in the coming decades, as they face warmer, drier conditions. (...) Many biologists think that desert organisms are living at the limits of survival — and that cooler regions may be out of reach for slow-moving or short-lived species. (...) Others on the resurvey project are exploring how hotter, drier conditions might harm birds and mammals, by studying species’ metabolisms and how much water they lose through evaporation. Ecological modellers can combine these findings with the latest population data to better project how the desert ecosystem might fare as the planet warms. Ideally, scientists would revisit these forecasts in a few decades using fresh data. But fieldwork of this sort is falling out of favour. Staring at the blue mountains on the horizon, Patton says that he doesn’t know who will replace him: very few students today train as naturalists, and museums and national parks are chronically underfunded. “Everyone wants to know how nature is changing and why,” he says. “But there’s almost nobody doing this kind of work" | {{ :dust_and_shadow:ds-reader1-09.jpg |}} |
| <cite>Amy Maxmen, The Ambitious effort to document California's changing deserts</cite> </blockquote> | |
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