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David Suzuki, CBC,

CBC news interview with David Suzuki

Broadcast on July 11th, The CBC ran David Suzuki Suzuki predictions for the Earth.

New busses for Merritt.

The city of Merritt has received two new buses according to sources.

BC Nature AGM 2023, Langley BC.

FYI

Registration closed, the AGM on Saturday May 6th one PM, Langley Golf course.

The Federation, BC Nature, is having its AGM this weekend in Langley BC,

SOURCE: Web capture.

Federation of British Columbian Naturalists.

The Proprietor Review

Post Kevin D Griffiths, The Proprietor Review, Merritt BC CA.

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BC Nature

https://bcnature.org/bc_nature_agm_20

BC Nature is made of members of local naturalist clubs; including ours from the Nicola Naturalist Society.

Roots…

This is good.

Dream of an Iceland…

There is hope in our world, if indeed man has contributed to the recent climate change then he can contribute to its healing.

Music: The Woods, Hollow Coves 🎍

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com

Happy national forest day, somewhere!

Today is National Forest day, a day to appreciate the home of many creatures and humans over time.

Habitat for all.

International forestry day March 21, two sources

Kevin Costner

Happy 68th birthday to Kevin Costner, were would he and Robin Hood have been without forest.

Forest champions

Retirement of David Suzuki

I would change nothing about myself; I will leave that to forces I come up to and continue to grow in experience and comfort of peace.🤳

Nicola Naturalists Society.

The NNS is participating in the annual Christmas bird count again this year. On Saturday the members and president Alan Burger will go out and count and classify numbers of our our featured friends. The goal beyond the pleasant outing and enjoying a fellowship experience will provide data. The data is for here is usually published by February and those that care take note over time and experience in the dynamics of ornithology and its progress or decline.

This will be the 24th Christmas Bird Count in the Merritt count circle. You don’t have to be an expert birder to participate – the count is done in groups and there are always one or more experienced birders in each group. So this is a great way to learn the winter birds in the Nicola Valley. To register please email:   nicolanaturalists@gmail.com

Mallards on Nicola File Photo KDG

Boreal Forest…

Moving North

The boreal forest occupies a great deal of Canada in particular the Northern parts and in the Northwest Territories. The parts of the territories that don’t have boreal forest are called the barren lands, and associated with permafrost and generally a moss on the top of the land that insulates and keeps the permanent frost just below it.

The Boreal forest does progress north as the frost comes out of the land and over time the Boreal forest pushes north.

It is a bit of a hope that the response of this dynamic will mitigate global warming to some extent, however the reliance should be limited as the world 🌎 is in a considerable supply and demand situation and it needs to come to the standard of the zero net carbon emissions by 2050.

Every one a part to play.

So, in the past it’s been our position that if everybody just did something we could probably solve this. Today our position has shifted to if everybody did something they would feel a lot better.

It may be the things that have to be done have to be on an industrial scale and we’ll just leave that thought for now.

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Amazon atmospheric streams.

The other iconic hope is the Amazon rainforest logging and demand for agricultural land as land is depleted of its nutrients is in the forefront of the mindset of many people that are concerned. And rightly so.

This dynamic has affected the atmospheric streams that are picked up as the tropical rainforest emits groundwater out from its tops and through its leaves. These atmosphere streams could be said to have brought water to California in in previous decades.

These are hope situations some of the many circulating around on what’s happening to our planet and what we can do about it.

The one that the Boreal forest will somewhat save us from the extra carbon that is in the atmosphere by its expansion northward to the Great Canadian Boreal forest has some merit.

Im both incidents you are dealing with one or two generations however the demand including oil, minerals and resources is on the thousands of generations that it took to put in place. Before the industrial age and it’s population expanded in the last few generations to encompass a real surge on the planet

Good luck, stay calm and carry on.

Canadian Boreal forest, read 🎄

Trees made this province what it is, opinion File photo KDG

local government risk abatement

The British Columbia government has grants of 2.3 million dollars for disaster risk abatement programs.

Details

The sun west of Merritt, Red from smoke, of the 2017 fire season in the Southern interior of BC File Photo KDG

Know of a risk…

Get on your local government to be proactive.

Stay careful

I will love you a billion years from now sunshine..

File Photo KDG

Parks…

Leave it better then found.

Buds of May Need nutrients Photo KDG

On this Day: May 20th 1946, born singer Cher.

Cher If I Could Turn Back Time…

File Photo KDG

The Nicola naturalist Society is having its monthly meeting on May 19th 2022. The meeting is at 7:00 p.m. in the Nicola Valley institute of technology lecture theater. Free parking, no food or drinking the theater.

Micheal Ebenal to speak on the Kingdom of Fungi

LOCAL BIRDERS
NICOLA VALLEY NATURALISTS

Booster booster who’s the rooster.

Dandy lions and bees. So does everybody know that Google is said to have rented goats and got service from both ends on its lawns at it’s headquarters. That begs the question what other nuisance is employed against the grain of some people’s sensibility.

When coming to the environment one must be careful there is something in it to offend everyone and often it does.

So Bees…

There are literally hundreds of these little creatures that we call bees. Some are pollinators extraordinary which when it comes to some flowering weeds might put them on the wrong side of you. Manicured lawns often do better with lots of watering that seems weeds take advantage of it when there isn’t this much watering.

New environmentally friendly communication boxes..

Utilities box with new graphics Photo KDG

Water table level as of end of July/16 File photo KDG

Source: Gardening Know How, dandelions

Painted lawns

Before we go silly with this there are good reasons for this endeavor as it relates to the environment.

One being :

Reflection

In the absence of naturally occurring coloration a substitute for light colors such as white over dark colors such as black will decrease the absorption of heat and promote the reflection of light and heat back towards space.This is a good thing especially in times when the white reflective pools covered in snow and ice are diminishing and showing dark ground that would love to absorb any heat that was available. As well painted panoramas of live trees may have a calming effect on some people as they walk about or drive about. You could test this theory by painting some relief of weedy ground maybe ad a goat. Some how this idea lacks comfort in my viewpoint. So that leaves the actual property Care at home that would have less of a permanence and be comforting in the fact that it can be managed and it’s not forever.

Firesafe courses

The province of British Columbia how often puts on fire safe courses and I know from experience that they’re easily questioned and open the discussions on what’s the best way to make your property fire safe and at the same time not inconveniencing the present ability of the property.

Window of opportunity

The time in the spring that dandelions are a nuisance is only compounded by the fact that they spread seeds however you can spread your seeds you can put them in a pile on the dry out nicely in the window pick them up and send them away and if you get big black plastic bags to deal with them they’re out of your control by for part of the time that they go to the landfill perhaps try a black polyethylene sheet a black polyethylene sheet glued out on the ground to absorb heat, place the dandelions and Weeds on it and just get an idea of how quickly they can be dried out in a way that makes disposal in a local burial pit practical.

A villain in puberty…

So in one sense we view this photo as a good thing.

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A curb to sidewalk concrete entrance is poured, with feeling slots for the blind. Photo KDG

Being blind to the fact this youngster could be nefarious conductor of heat you might say more everywhere please.No no weeds under concrete!

Yes, and this conductor doesn’t have an orchestra. It only conducts heat and cold and it’s up to you on how you employ it which it will choose to do. So you could plan it’s they so it wouldn’t be lost and lonely and it could be productive preserving heat for when you need it and conducting the cool 😎 when most beneficial to you. That’s also your value to begin it is like contractors city planners and more. The way you put these things out and the way you plant around them can be as planned as you want it to be.

Dandelions you be the judge..

So back to our main topic those dandelions, round up the cost of not buying toxic poisons and make a donation at your local outlet that offers these things or to organizations like mind it to you in your rebirth has a environmentally astute liver.

Happy Earth Month 2022

Stay safe ❤️

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Tomorrow is Earth Day since 1970 the world has had an Earth Day. And the music that’s in the photo of the deer down below is from artist John Denver, proclaiming that celebrate Earth Day everyday is the way to go. Happy planet!

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In 700 rivers/ creeks on the trans mountain, expansion., consultation was made to address them. KDG