Kim Heise Art
@kimheiseart.bsky.social
Watercolors of Florida native plants and animals
South Florida
Website: KimHeise.com
South Florida
Website: KimHeise.com
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Kim Heise Art
@kimheiseart.bsky.social
· Jan 25
Ok, here’s my introduction post: I’m a watercolor artist painting Florida native plants and animals to celebrate them, educate about them, and advocate for their conservation.
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International demand has been high for South #Florida’s newest housing — with shoppers abroad buying up nearly half the region’s newly built residences. (Let's see how President Convicted Felon & Gov. Ron DeSastrous' immigration crackdown affects this.) www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/07/28/i...
International home shoppers are buying lots of South Florida’s newest housing, report says
International demand has been high for South Florida’s newest housing — with shoppers abroad buying up nearly half the region’s newly built residences, according to real-estate data rel…
www.sun-sentinel.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:04 AM
International demand has been high for South #Florida’s newest housing — with shoppers abroad buying up nearly half the region’s newly built residences. (Let's see how President Convicted Felon & Gov. Ron DeSastrous' immigration crackdown affects this.) www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/07/28/i...
A line in SB 180 is being used by developers to try to bully county commissions in Florida to attempt to weaken environmental protections, rural boundaries, and the right to home rule. Orange County could set a precedent with their vote:
Email the commissioners TODAY (becaus the vote is tomorrow)👇
Email the commissioners TODAY (becaus the vote is tomorrow)👇
July 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
A line in SB 180 is being used by developers to try to bully county commissions in Florida to attempt to weaken environmental protections, rural boundaries, and the right to home rule. Orange County could set a precedent with their vote:
Email the commissioners TODAY (becaus the vote is tomorrow)👇
Email the commissioners TODAY (becaus the vote is tomorrow)👇
Pics from the last demonstration against the detention center in the Everglades! Here are two petitions to sign to oppose it:
support.tropicalaudubon.org/a/shut_down_...
www.everglades.org/no-alligator...
#alligatoralcatraz #florida #protest
support.tropicalaudubon.org/a/shut_down_...
www.everglades.org/no-alligator...
#alligatoralcatraz #florida #protest
July 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Pics from the last demonstration against the detention center in the Everglades! Here are two petitions to sign to oppose it:
support.tropicalaudubon.org/a/shut_down_...
www.everglades.org/no-alligator...
#alligatoralcatraz #florida #protest
support.tropicalaudubon.org/a/shut_down_...
www.everglades.org/no-alligator...
#alligatoralcatraz #florida #protest
A good reminder
Most plastics are not recyclable, largely because there is no market for materials labeled 3 through 7.
from @grist.org via @climatedesk.org
from @grist.org via @climatedesk.org
Big Plastic wants you to think you can recycle your yogurt container
Those numbered labels, vetted by private interests, can be misleading.
www.motherjones.com
July 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
A good reminder
Amazing turnout for the Don’t Destroy Th Everglades: Stop “Alligator Alcatraz” demonstration today! Led by Betty Osceola
June 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Amazing turnout for the Don’t Destroy Th Everglades: Stop “Alligator Alcatraz” demonstration today! Led by Betty Osceola
I volunteered at Leadership Blue (FL Democrat convention) in Ft.Lauderdale yesterday and got to hear part of the talk and eat a hamburger! ^-^ I had fun signing people in.
June 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I volunteered at Leadership Blue (FL Democrat convention) in Ft.Lauderdale yesterday and got to hear part of the talk and eat a hamburger! ^-^ I had fun signing people in.
No Kings protest in Coral Springs!
June 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
No Kings protest in Coral Springs!
Hi friends, there’s a proposal to rescind the definition of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act, to make destroying habitat not count as harm. Animals can’t survive without habitat! Submit a public comment before the 19th. You can copy and paste the letter: www.kimheise.com/links
May 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Hi friends, there’s a proposal to rescind the definition of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act, to make destroying habitat not count as harm. Animals can’t survive without habitat! Submit a public comment before the 19th. You can copy and paste the letter: www.kimheise.com/links
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Calling all scientists! There's less than one week left to boost support to protect endangered species' habitat safeguards in the Endangered Species Act.
Sign on to the scientists' open sign-on letter here and please share: biodiv.us/4mojih5
Sign on to the scientists' open sign-on letter here and please share: biodiv.us/4mojih5
Scientists' Letter in Opposition to Rescinding the Regulatory Definition of “Harm” in Endangered Species Act Regulations
May 19, 2025
Submitted via: https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FWS-HQ-ES-2025-0034-0001
Public Comments Processing
Attn: FWS-HQ-ES-2025-0034
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, MS: PRB/3W
5275 Leesbu...
biodiv.us
May 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Calling all scientists! There's less than one week left to boost support to protect endangered species' habitat safeguards in the Endangered Species Act.
Sign on to the scientists' open sign-on letter here and please share: biodiv.us/4mojih5
Sign on to the scientists' open sign-on letter here and please share: biodiv.us/4mojih5
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Op-ed: Now is the time to fight for #Florida's many endangered species. www.theinvadingsea.com/2025/05/12/e... via @theinvadingsea.bsky.social
Now is the time to fight for Florida’s endangered wildlife | The Invading Sea
The Trump administration would gut habitat protections by changing how harm is defined under the Endangered Species Act.
www.theinvadingsea.com
May 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Op-ed: Now is the time to fight for #Florida's many endangered species. www.theinvadingsea.com/2025/05/12/e... via @theinvadingsea.bsky.social
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Column: #Florida is full of expensive restoration projects. It would be cheaper & better to conserve rather than fix after it breaks. My latest for @floridaphoenix.com includes shout-outs to Noah, Kool-Aid Man & Mr. Incredible. floridaphoenix.com/2025/05/08/f...
Florida is full of expensive restoration projects. Conservation would be cheaper. • Florida Phoenix
Before last week, I’d never heard of the frosted flatwoods salamander. Now that I have, I think it’s kind of cool. It’s a wiggly little amphibian with black-and-white stripes, sort of like if you cros...
floridaphoenix.com
May 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Column: #Florida is full of expensive restoration projects. It would be cheaper & better to conserve rather than fix after it breaks. My latest for @floridaphoenix.com includes shout-outs to Noah, Kool-Aid Man & Mr. Incredible. floridaphoenix.com/2025/05/08/f...
Prescribed burns! Amazingly, 70% of conservation lands in Florida rely on regular fire! Some plants don’t even bloom without a fire. Many people don’t know about it, so I made this illustrated zine in 2018 to share some info and I’ve updated it over the years. It’s such a fascinating thing.
May 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Prescribed burns! Amazingly, 70% of conservation lands in Florida rely on regular fire! Some plants don’t even bloom without a fire. Many people don’t know about it, so I made this illustrated zine in 2018 to share some info and I’ve updated it over the years. It’s such a fascinating thing.
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#PlantMoreNatives Fogfruit (Phyla nodiflora) is a wonderful native addition to your freedom lawn, plus many butterflies depend on it as their larval food so they can complete their life cycles. For more on freedom lawns, read: greengardeningmatters.blogspot.com/2021/05/our-...
May 5, 2025 at 10:34 AM
#PlantMoreNatives Fogfruit (Phyla nodiflora) is a wonderful native addition to your freedom lawn, plus many butterflies depend on it as their larval food so they can complete their life cycles. For more on freedom lawns, read: greengardeningmatters.blogspot.com/2021/05/our-...
April 30, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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April 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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🚨 Amendment filed to the state park protection bill, SB 80, that would NOT PROHIBIT the development of a golf course at Jonathan Dickinson State Park, a resort at Anastasia State Park or other reckless development in our state parks - It’s time to take action again to stand up for our state parks‼️
April 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🚨 Amendment filed to the state park protection bill, SB 80, that would NOT PROHIBIT the development of a golf course at Jonathan Dickinson State Park, a resort at Anastasia State Park or other reckless development in our state parks - It’s time to take action again to stand up for our state parks‼️
Scrub Jay with Sand Oak, watercolor, 12x17”
Inspired by Jonathan Dickinson State Park, and other at-risk scrub habitats. Florida Scrub Jays are only found in Florida! I’m told they eat the acorns from the sand oak trees!
#scrubjay #floridanativeplants #artforparks #botanicalillustration #birds
Inspired by Jonathan Dickinson State Park, and other at-risk scrub habitats. Florida Scrub Jays are only found in Florida! I’m told they eat the acorns from the sand oak trees!
#scrubjay #floridanativeplants #artforparks #botanicalillustration #birds
April 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Scrub Jay with Sand Oak, watercolor, 12x17”
Inspired by Jonathan Dickinson State Park, and other at-risk scrub habitats. Florida Scrub Jays are only found in Florida! I’m told they eat the acorns from the sand oak trees!
#scrubjay #floridanativeplants #artforparks #botanicalillustration #birds
Inspired by Jonathan Dickinson State Park, and other at-risk scrub habitats. Florida Scrub Jays are only found in Florida! I’m told they eat the acorns from the sand oak trees!
#scrubjay #floridanativeplants #artforparks #botanicalillustration #birds
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When people cannot afford to pay for rent or groceries, asking them to help fight against fascism is not going to connect.
We must be telling people how we plan on fighting for them and show them who is standing in the way.
We must be telling people how we plan on fighting for them and show them who is standing in the way.
April 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
When people cannot afford to pay for rent or groceries, asking them to help fight against fascism is not going to connect.
We must be telling people how we plan on fighting for them and show them who is standing in the way.
We must be telling people how we plan on fighting for them and show them who is standing in the way.
Detail from Yuma The Florida Panther! Watercolor 36x42” Gopher tortoises are a keystone species in Florida. They dig burrows that many other species live in, including the burrowing owl (which doesn’t burrow its own holes and is completely dependent on tortoises) #gophertortoiseday
April 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Detail from Yuma The Florida Panther! Watercolor 36x42” Gopher tortoises are a keystone species in Florida. They dig burrows that many other species live in, including the burrowing owl (which doesn’t burrow its own holes and is completely dependent on tortoises) #gophertortoiseday
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Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"
April 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"
For “Draw a bird” day, may I offer you this whistling duck (watercolor, 16x16”) from my series Birds At Play, which were used to create a mural in the Mandel Library in West Palm Beach (info about the series and mural are on my blog!)
One of the common bird species we have in South Florida!
One of the common bird species we have in South Florida!
April 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
For “Draw a bird” day, may I offer you this whistling duck (watercolor, 16x16”) from my series Birds At Play, which were used to create a mural in the Mandel Library in West Palm Beach (info about the series and mural are on my blog!)
One of the common bird species we have in South Florida!
One of the common bird species we have in South Florida!
#portfolioday I do watercolors of Florida native plants and animals! Here’s a few I haven’t posted yet.
April 9, 2025 at 2:50 AM
#portfolioday I do watercolors of Florida native plants and animals! Here’s a few I haven’t posted yet.
Another for the long list of reasons why this administration is evil
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Another for the long list of reasons why this administration is evil
Today my friends and I visited Wakodahatchee wetlands (Delray Beach) to watch the baby birds 🥹 this place is incredible
April 7, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Today my friends and I visited Wakodahatchee wetlands (Delray Beach) to watch the baby birds 🥹 this place is incredible
Awesome event at Dr. Von D Mizell-Eula Johnson state park! I didn’t know this park existed in Ft.Lauderdale until “parksgate”. It’s been great to get to know it.
April 6, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Awesome event at Dr. Von D Mizell-Eula Johnson state park! I didn’t know this park existed in Ft.Lauderdale until “parksgate”. It’s been great to get to know it.