Forests of the US Mapped
A lot a detailed information packed into this very cool map. You’ve frequently heard me say, “we live on the edge of the west.” You can really see that here, the western edge of the Ouachitas and Ozarks clearly the…
Biogeography
Patterns of life in a changing world
Our world is changing. How shall we think about that? What tools of thought, of perspective, might help us think about and understand the changes we feel swirling around us? Climate is, of course, the big change, in natural systems…
Sediments are an epic poem of earth history
Great Rachel Carson quote, via Kate Orff (@KateOrff Twitter): The sediments are a sort of epic poem of the earth. When we are wise enough, perhaps we can read in them all of past history. For all is written here.…