from Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Merlin Sound ID Crosses the PondA new release of the free Merlin Bird ID app helps you to identify the songs and calls of 685 bird species, and for the first time includes 250 bird species found in Europe. Simply tap the record button and Merlin shows you the name of each species detected in real time—even with multiple species singing. Put the magic of Merlin in your pocket today!
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National Geographic reports
Americans need a less toxic approach to managing the most common cockroaches, which are evolving resistance to store-bought insecticides.
Read story at Killing cockroaches with pesticides is only making the species stronger
Posted in Animals | Tags: Cockroach Pesticide Resistance
CNPS is seeking an innovative and strategic thinker who is passionate about conservation to serve as the organization’s Executive Director (ED) and as a leader in California’s conservation community. Learn more.
Posted in Job Openings | Tags: California Native Plant Society, Job Openings
NPR reports on A group of researchers who found and photographed a woolly mammoth tusk on the banks of the Koyukuk River in Alaska.
A sighting reveals extinction and climate change in a single image
Read article and see photos at A tusk from a woolly mammoth is seen on the banks of the Koyukuk River in Alaska : NPR
Posted in Animals | Tags: Wooly Mammoth
ScienceDaily reports
If a human comes down with a rash, they might go to the doctor and come away with some ointment to put on it. Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins get skin conditions, too, but they come about their medication by queuing up nose-to-tail to rub themselves against corals. Researchers now show that these corals have medicinal properties, suggesting that the dolphins are using the marine invertebrates to medicate skin conditions.
Read more at Watch dolphins line up to self-medicate skin ailments at coral ‘clinics’ — ScienceDaily
NPR reports
June’s full moon gets its nickname from the strawberry harvesting season in the Northeastern U.S. It also happens to be at its closest distance to Earth in its orbit, which makes it a supermoon.
Read more June’s full moon is a strawberry supermoon. Here’s how to watch : NPR
Optimal Viewing time is 7:51 a.m. ET (4:51 PT) on Tuesday.
From Yellowstone National Park
Posted in Park, Uncategorized | Tags: Yellowstone closed
NBC-Bay Reports
Roughly 30 spots of white and blue graffiti were discovered along the Yosemite Falls Trail, the park said
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Read on www.nbcbayarea.com/news/california/graffiti-found-along-trail-in-yosemite-national-park/2918036/
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from Audubon
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The New York Times reports
Selfies Further Endanger Rare Phallic Plant, Conservationists Fear. In Cambodia, video of women suggestively joking around with a protected carnivorous specimen prompted a government admonition: Hands off, people.
Read story at Stop Picking Endangered Phallic Plant, Cambodia Warns – The New York Times
Posted in Wildflowers and Other Plants | Tags: Carnivorous Plants, Nepenthes, Nepenthes mirabilis
The New York Times reports
A woman accused of providing false information about a missing hiker in Grand Teton National Park has been banned from the park for five years, officials said.
The woman, Heather Mycoskie, 40, may not enter the park in northwest Wyoming under a deferred prosecution agreement, park officials said in a statement on Thursday. She must also pay $17,600 in restitution.
The National Park Service said it spent about 532 hours conducting searches and investigations in response to the false report.
Read more at Woman Gets 5-Year Ban From Grand Teton for False Report on Missing Hiker – The New York Times
Posted in Park | Tags: False Missing Hiker Report, Grand Teton
Bay Nature reports on “How Condors Returned to Yurok Land in Northern California”
It took decades of work to prepare for this spring’s Northern California condor restoration on Yurok Tribal land.
Read story at How Condors Returned to Yurok Land in Northern California – Bay Nature
Posted in Birds | Tags: Condors, Yurok Condors
EarthJustice News Release
Orange County Judge Rules Department of Environmental Conservation Has Authority to Reject New Gas Plants Under New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act
Yesterday, Judge Robert A. Onofry dismissed a lawsuit filed by Danskammer Energy LLC, seeking to overturn the Department of Environmental Conservation’s (DEC) denial of a permit necessary for Danskammer to build a new fracked gas plant on the banks of the Hudson River in Orange County.
Read on earthjustice.org/news/press/2022/danskammer-lawsuit-tossed-new-yorks-landmark-climate-law-upheld
Posted in Environment | Tags: New York Environmental Laws
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Solano Count is hiring two Seasonal Restoration Technicians. For Jon details and to apply go to. forum.cnps.org/filedata/fetch
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Wildearth Guardians News Release
In a win for our climate, the Biden administration has agreed to reconsider oil and gas leasing across 4 million acres—more than 6,200 square miles!—of public lands in the Western United States.
— Read more at: wildearthguardians.org/brave-new-wild/show-on-home/victory-for-public-lands-wildlife-and-our-climate/
Posted in Environment | Tags: environmental win, Fracking
NPR reports
You’ve heard of the carbon footprint. Now there is a development on the carbon hoofprint.
New Zealand has announced a plan to tax livestock burps in an effort to curb the country’s gas emissions.
Methane emissions from animals is a well-known issue. Cows alone are responsible for about 40% of those planet-warming gases globally — mainly through their burps.
Read more at New Zealand announces world-first plan to tax cow and sheep burps : NPR
Posted in Environment | Tags: Carbon Footprints, Carbon Hoofprints
The San Francisco Chronicle reports
The otherworldly and iconic Joshua tree, subject of album covers, postcards and untold numbers of Instagram photos, could be listed as a threatened species in California to protect it from desert development and eventual extinction — but state wildlife officials have signaled opposition to the new status.
Next Wednesday, the state Fish and Game Commission will consider whether the twisted, spiky trees, which grow in the Mojave Desert and Great Basin in southeastern California, warrant protection as a threatened species under the state’s Endangered Species Act.
Read more at This iconic California tree could go extinct. But some officials are wary of naming it ‘threatened’
Posted in Environment | Tags: Joshua Trees
from Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Nesting season is in full swing in many parts of the country, and with some stealthy surveillance of your surroundings you may be able to clue in to birds that are actively building a nest, incubating, or feeding young nearby. Learn the top three behaviors to look for that can signal that a bird is nesting nearby, and how you can respectfully observe the excitement of the nesting cycle.
Busting Nesting Myths: Misinformation abounds when it comes to nests and nesting birds—get the straight dirt on some commonly held beliefs from the experts at NestWatch.
Posted in Birds | Tags: Bird Nests
The New York Times reports
More than 1,200 species of arachnids are part of a largely unregulated global marketplace, according to a new study.
Read more at Scientists Uncover a Shady Web of Online Spider Sales – The New York Times
Posted in Animals | Tags: Arachnid Sales, Spider Sales
The New York Times reports
Sales of plastic water bottles and other single-use plastic products will be phased out at national parks and on public lands in the United States over the next decade, the Interior Department said this week.
Read more Plastic Water Bottles to Be Phased Out at National Parks – The New York Times
Posted in Park | Tags: Plastic Water Bottles to Be Phased Out at National Parks
Photos from a visit to the UC-Berkeley Botanical Garden on June 6, 2022.
The garden is currently open daily to the public from ten to five by reservation . Garden members can enter at nine. There is an entrance fee (free for garden members) and paid parking. Reservations are required except for garden members. For more information and to make reservations go to UC-Botanical Garden.
Posted in Garden, Photos (Sandy's) | Tags: UC-Berkeley Botanical Garden
from Marin CNPS
Garden Allies” Monday, June 13 @ 7:30 pm
Guest Speaker: Frédérique Lavoipierre, Author of Garden Allies: The Insects, Birds, and Other Animals that Keep Your Garden Beautiful and Thriving
The birds, mammals, reptiles, and insects that inhabit our yards and gardens are overwhelmingly on our side—they are not our enemies, but instead our allies. They pollinate our flowers and vegetable crops, and they keep pests in check. These creatures are the key to keeping our garden’s ecology in balance. Frédérique will show us how to nurture and welcome these valuable creatures into our gardens.
Register for this Zoom meeting here.
Posted in Garden, Talks | Tags: Garden Allies
from YubaNet and American Society of Agronomy and Crop Science Society of America
Seed dispersal in plants takes on countless forms, yet most dispersal mechanisms fall within the categories of gravity, wind, water, and animal dispersal. Let’s dive into these mechanisms in more detail. Next time you’re out walking, see if you can spot them in action.
Read more at How are seeds dispersed? – YubaNet
Posted in Environment, Wildflowers and Other Plants | Tags: Pollination, Seed Disperasal
Posted in Job Openings | Tags: Eastern Sierra Land Trust, Job Openings
The National Science Foundation reports
In a new study published in Scientific Reports, U.S. National Science Foundation-funded researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History used citizen science data to determine the cause of the anomalous bloom and predict when similar events might occur.
Read article at Using citizen science data to investigate unseasonal flowering in Joshua trees | NSF – National Science Foundation
Posted in Environment | Tags: Unseasonal flowering in Joshua trees
Yale e 360 reports
Eastern monarch butterflies covered 35 percent more ground in the mountain forests of central Mexico this past winter than they did the year before, according to a survey from the World Wildlife Fund.
— Read More at e360.yale.edu/digest/after-long-decline-eastern-monarchs-show-signs-of-recovery-survey-finds
Posted in Butterflies, Uncategorized | Tags: Monarch Butterflies
8 June Every Year is World Ocean Day. the goal is to United Ocean Action Worldwide. Read about events and activities at Upcoming Events – World Ocean Day – World Ocean Day
Posted in Environment | Tags: World Ocean Day
Natural History Wanderings 