Another island extinction likely caused by invasive species.

Quote: "Perhaps somewhere, a small furtive family of shrews are hanging on, elusive survivors, secure in the knowledge of their own existence and waiting to prove the pessimists wrong."
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The Colorado River Indian Tribes may soon become the third Indigenous government in North America to grant personhood rights to a river.

“The river is my grandfather.” @debkrol.bsky.social www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

On this day in 1964, a Humboldt National Forest Ranger gave a grad student permission to cut down an ancient bristlecone pine in Nevada, knowing that it was at least several thousand years old, but neither being aware that they were going to destroy the oldest known living thing on earth.

Read John Hersey’s powerful, unforgettable August 1946 New Yorker article, “Hiroshima,” describing the horrific devastation of the city as recounted by six survivors: a clerk, a doctor, a tailor’s widow, a German priest, a surgeon, and a Methodist pastor—the first unvarnished account of the bombing.

I told you we’d be back

Sometimes one can find strange comfort in remembering that others have already seen our inexorable demise, and articulated even many decades ago what we're experiencing today. Take for example the poet Robinson Jeffers, writing in 1937 --