Understanding Public Lands Management and Other Hallucinations of Nature
Its cumulative detrimental effects now threaten our terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. A warming planet and extended regional drought drive air and water temperatures higher, simultaneously as baseline and trend.
Clearcutting and long-term deforestation are accelerants that must stop. Warming waters explode algal blooms that rob aquatic ecosystems of oxygen. Aquatic insect populations deprived of oxygen no longer persist, breaking the food chain, placing trout survival in serious jeopardy.
No, the Air Force didn’t illicitly use this land for a bombing range. This is the handiwork of the taxpayer funded Ely BLM treatment-industrial complex, aided, and abetted by TNC’s (The Nature Conservancy) contracted vegetation models and analysis.
Photo and caption: Katie Fite. Some may have noticed (recently, or decades ago) that the U.S. (USFS) and Bureau of Land Management-U.S.
Author's summary: Threats to ecosystems.