S: At 24,000 strong, isn’t the California National Guard large enough to handle any protests?
G: Sure, but Marines are trained to kill.
S: Sounds authoritarian.

S: I’ve been thinking.
G: About what?
S: If you can buy a gold card for $5 million, does that mean illegal immigrants are guilty only of being poor?

S: Climate change, nuclear weapons, absurd inequality, humans don’t seem intelligent.
G: It’s not possible to be intelligent, only less dumb.

S: Will one of these cardinals be the new Pope?
G: Well Sabrina, having a bird brain does appear to be a requirement for the job.

S: Is Passover celebrated tonight?
G: Yes, but fortunately you weren’t the oldest in the litter.

S: Do house cats need an emergency savings fund?
G: Sabrina, you have a safety net, but if the current administration has its way, you may have to borrow a book on mice hunting, if of course, public libraries remain.

S: There is no set relationship between a country’s trade deficit and how well it’s economy is doing.
G: Careful who you criticize, it will be hard to find you in an animal shelter in El Salvador.

Merchants Millpond in North Carolina is home to some three thousand species of flora and fauna. Three adult American alligators are known to thrive there. After four failed visits to find one, the fifth attempt yielded this semiaquatic cold-blooded crocodilian.

S: Is race a biological reality or a social construct?
G: If only we could ask the children of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.

S: I’m concerned about the future of democracy.
G: You’re more perceptive than half the U.S. population.

“Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources… Do not let greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.” – Theodore Roosevelt

There is a strong correlation between federal land protected and a county’s employment growth rate. The current administration seems not to know or care.

Headwater Economics. West Is Best. p. 19.

Our newest EPA Administrator states “…we will take great strides to defend every American's access to clean air, clean water, and clean land.” Very well. Call and tell your representatives you support policies that accomplish those goals.

Hanging Rock State Park in the Sauratown Mountains of North Carolina started as a
Civilian Conservation Corps project. Government investment in public lands is critical to the well-being of our wildlife and our citizens.

A few acres of paradise border Rudee Lake in Virginia Beach. A Great Blue Heron manages to thrive adjacent to heavy oceanfront development.

Wetlands boardwalk at Lake Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge. It’s North Carolina’s largest body of freshwater. Immense flocks of geese, swans, and ducks overwinter here.

Spruce Knob, at 4,863 feet, is the highest point in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Rainfall on the eastern half of Spruce Mountain can slowly makes it way to the Atlantic Ocean via the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay. Bay water quality starts here. Rain to the west flows to the Gulf of Mexico.

Sea oats waving in the wind, witnessing another splendid sunrise at False Cape State Park, one of the last remaining undeveloped, unspoiled beaches on North America’s east coast. A botanical jewel spared by those who recognize the importance and support the conservation of public lands.

Sea oats are an important and very precious plant. it’s a pioneer species that puts down a particularly deep and extensive pattern of roots, and because of that, it’s especially effective at trapping and stabilizing these shifting sands.