my delicious loose ends
Rainforest Life
“I have strong memories of many moments of joy and amazement when I lived in the tropical rainforest: listening to the deep reverberations of chimpanzees drumming against large tree buttresses to mark their territories, or watching from the terrace of my bungalow in western Ghana as the carmine sun turned deep purple before going down over an unbroken canopy of rainforest trees. I remember my astonishment when big fish belonging to half a dozen different species jumped into our boat as we drove slowly up a narrow tributary of the Amazon River.” —Claude Martin, On the Edge: the State and Fate of the World’s Tropical Rainforests
Non-perennial Rivers and Streams
A new study found that between 51-60% of the 64 million kilometers of rivers and streams on Earth that they investigated stop flowing periodically, or run dry for part of the year.
Dos Rios Ranch Floodplain Restoration
“Our Dos Rios project is the largest public-private floodplain restoration project in California, a leading example of green infrastructure that lowers flood risk and brings life back to the San Joaquin Valley to protect endangered species. Ten years and $40 million from eleven different…
Waters of the U.S. 2019
Waters of the U.S. is an incredibly beautiful film that tells the story of the rivers, streams, and wetlands of Alabama, and the Clean Water Act.
Native Plant Restoration
Volunteers teamed up to make progress on a native plant interpretive trail along the Santa Clara River.
