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#good news #fossil fuels #usa #environment #science #environmentalism #climate change #climate crisis

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Bison graze in the snow at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, near Denver.

© Michael Levine-Clark / Flickr

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Plains Bison in Custer, South Dakota, USA

Stephanie LeBlanc

The Plains bison is one of two subspecies/ecotypes of the American bison, the other being the wood bison.

Status: Near Threatened

Population: 45,000

Scientific Name: Bison bison bison

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Subphylum: Vertebrata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Artiodactyla

Family: Bovidae

Subfmaily: Bovinae

Tribe: Bovini

Genus: Bison

Weight: 701 to 2,000 pounds

Length: 7-12 ft.

Habitat: Grassland

Range: Bison once roamed from Florida to Washington, Canada, and Mexico - The entire U.S.

Predators: Wolves are the primary predator of bison across the continent. Local knowledge also indicates that bears play a role in predation.

Diet: Bison are considered generalist foragers, meaning they eat a wide array of herbaceous grasses and sedges commonly found in mixed-grassed prairies. These types of plants include species such as Blue gramma, sand dropseed, and little bluestem.

Lifespan: The average lifespan for a bison is 10–20 years, but some live to be older. Cows begin breeding at the age of two and only have one baby at a time. For males, the prime breeding age is six to 10 years.

Importance: Bison graze the grasses at different heights, providing nesting grounds for birds. They also roll around and pack down the soil in depressions in the ground known as wallows. Their wallows fill with rainwater and offer breeding pools for amphibians and sources of drinking water for wildlife across the landscape.

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shoutout to this random-ass guy who had this incredibly rare bird sighting

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Along the Merced river

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Spongey moss beneath my knees, damp from recent rain, soaking through clothing to the skin; worth it to capture the tiny world sprawled at my feet.

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Teach the children. We don't matter so much, but the children do. Show them daisies and the pale hepatica. Teach them the taste of sassafras and wintergreen. The lives of the blue sailors, mallow, sunbursts, the moccasin flowers. And the frisky ones – inkberry, lamb's-quarters, blueberries. And the aromatic ones – rosemary, oregano. Give them peppermint to put in their pockets as they go to school. Give them the fields and the woods and the possibility of the world salvaged from the lords of profit. Stand them in the stream, head them upstream, rejoice as they learn to love this space they live in, its sticks and leaves and then the silent, beautiful blossoms. Attention is the beginning of devotion.

Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

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#good news #tech #environmentalism #science #carbon capture #carbon emissions

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#united kingdom #plastic #plastic bans #plastics #plastic pollution #plastic legislation #good news #environmentalism

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#good news #environmentalism #science #conservation #nature #environment #animals #climate change #climate crisis #biodiversity #seems obvious but good to have

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Baltimore's Mr. Trash Wheel: a Decade of Garbage Gobbling Equates to 5.2 Million Pounds https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/baltimores-mr-trash-wheel-a-decade-of-garbage-gobbling-equates-to-5-2-million-pounds/

#good news #baltimore #environmentalism #trash #water pollution #pollution #pollution solutions #mr trash wheel #usa

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Mountain Chickadees have Remarkable Memories–with Ability to Recall Locations of 10,000 Hidden Snacks https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/mountain-chickadees-have-remarkable-memories-with-ability-to-recall-locations-of-10000-hidden-snacks/

#good news #chickadees #birds #environmentalism #science #environment #nature #animals

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Beloved Birds Return to Islands for First Time in 40 Years After Damming Damage Reversed https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/beloved-birds-return-to-islands-for-first-time-in-40-years-after-damming-damage-reversed/

#birds #australia #bittern #dams #dam removal #good news #environmentalism #science #environment #nature #animals

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I don't think spiky isopods are talked about enough

(Source-Macro photography by Nicky Bay)

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I was inspired by 60s psychedelic posters, Coca Cola, and this poster from 1967.

Since I’ve moved, I have had so much more time to work on my art, so this summer I’m going to be pushing out more.

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what if we were eating dinner togehter and u asked “pass the salt” and instead i passed you a Giant Burrowing Cockroach (Macropanesthia rhinoceros)

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“humanity is inherently selfish and bad” bbbrrrghuhjfkg. humanity is seeing a stranger’s grocery bag break open on the sidewalk and harvesting fruits and veggies from the branch-like cracks of the asphalt for them, just because you can. humanity is helping a lost child find their mother on a crowded beach, looking for the ladybug-patterned parasol with their hummingbird-small hand in yours. it’s an elder’s fingers wrapped around your arm as you help them up the stairs because the elevator is broken, and feeling like you’re doing exactly what you’re supposed to be doing, like this is what you would’ve been doing had you been alive centuries or even millennia ago. there will always be a heavily pregnant woman who will smile at your when you give up your seat, a nice blind man in the fruit aisle who will ask you to please pick the riper plantain for him, a tired cashier whose face will light up when you compliment their tattoo sleeve. humanity is connection