Bureau of Land Management biologists have been restoring and maintaining this creek in the Navada desert over the past 30 years and it went from being 2 feet wide to a lush green wetland spread over hundreds of feet.

giving clams control over the water suppply

Look at all of this water that comes from the rocky mountains!



https://www.lvvwd.com/water-system/where-your-water-comes-from/index.html

Southern Nevada gets nearly 90 percent of its water from the Colorado River, which begins as snowmelt in the Rocky Mountains.

The snowmelt travels through a series of tributaries into the river, which winds its way south for 1,450 miles and empties into the Gulf of California in Mexico.

Seven western states and Mexico share the river, which serves more than 25 million people.

I've been watching the forest regrow on my property over the past 2 years and it fills me with so much hope.




During the pandemic I had an existential crisis about the planet and was like "wtf am I doing with my life" so I bought some relatively cheap land in the middle of a wildfire burn scar and have been working on building hiking trails, documenting all of the species, making camping sites, and doing habitat restoration by building terraces and beaver dam analogues

When I go down into the valley there are so many flowers you can hear the buzz of thousands of pollinators all around you. Some honey bees (meh), but also a lot of bumble bees and wild native bee species

If you stay there until dusk you hear the buzz turn into an eerie whisper as the bees go to sleep and the moths get to work

The dark silhouettes of bats flying above me against a dark blue and magenta sky

Nature is still out there, just find it and cherish it and take care of it

Remarkable trolling.

i like standard.  When they're being annoying just tell them.

imo standard is cool

Wetfish is not very diverse overall and it can become an echo chamber at times. We need users who shake things up.

Perhaps at times we should have closer moderation to ensure things don’t go off the rails. I think standard generally engages in good faith and does not directly promote division. Largely, standard asks people to question their assumptions and that is a healthy thing to do.