Also the term “marginal land” to justify cattle grazing.

To see a land that can’t produce crops and insist therefore it must be grazed by nonnative bovines is to fail to speak the language of the land, to see the biodiverse habitats of endangered species, to see wild life and wild places

Yes, my view to this piece about ecological services is “yes but” they have intrinsic value regardless of benefits to humans. It just is also important for humans to understand they are destroying life in a way that will destroy them too.

It also ends the stigma & INSANITY of school lunch debt for kids who struggle to afford school meals… often their only meal of the day.

This is why SNAP is also important - since most on it are children, elderly, disabled, or working parents.

Don’t like it?

Pay living wages

That it’s not a national policy for public school children who are mandated by law to be in school & is denied by Congressional members who themselves enjoy a taxpayer-funded subsidized meal program - is a disgrace. It’s a barrier to improved literacy, childhood hunger & climate-friendly food.

The Bureau of Land Management, which oversees 245 million acres of public lands, mostly in the West.

It is exactly like that.

If only I could pause time to read all the books, catch up, and start again.

Fantastic, Sarah. I’d love to see more of your murals up.