One Tiny Owl: Otherworldly Photos From California’s Woolsey Fire — News : NPR

The Los Angeles Times' Wally Skalij discusses how he made the often surreal images, and how covering wars in Iraq and Kosovo prepared him to cover mass shootings and other tragedies in the U.S.(Image credit: Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times) via One Tiny Owl: Otherworldly Photos From California's Woolsey Fire — News : NPR

Ballona Freshwater Marsh: 3 November, 2018 — SANTA MONICA BAY AUDUBON SOCIETY BLOG

Did you know or did you remember that years ago what is now the Freshwater Marsh was a weedy field and a center of contention among land owners in Playa del Vista, developers and advocates of the Ballona Wetlands? It was completed as the Freshwater Marsh in February of 2003 and wow! Look at it […] …

Special Guests; Wild Horses and Public Lands — Wild Horse Education

Note from our founder: LLeigh Over the last month Wild Horse Education has been working on many projects including field work, reports to government officials, negotiation, protests and litigation. But we have also found time to show the world of wild horses to some special guests. We met with a professor from a prestigious university […] …

Food as Medicine: Anise (Pimpinella anisum, Apiaceae) — Crooked Bear Creek Organic Herbs

Anise or aniseed (Pimpinella anisum, Apiaceae) is an herbaceous annual that grows to almost a meter (3.3 feet) in height.1,2 The lower leaves of the plant are dark green, heart-shaped, and shallowly lobed, while the upper leaves are feathery. In the summer, the plant produces small, white flowers in an umbrella-shaped head, and, in the …

A Thanksgiving Feast – For the Birds — Oakland County Blog

WILDER SIDE OF OAKLAND COUNTY Wintery weather arrived early in Oakland County and with it came a flurry of bird feeding questions; among the top of the list were two questions. The first was actually more of a comment with a negative connotation, but I considered it an implied question: “Squirrels keep robbing seed from […] …

Watch Rare Footage of the World’s Most Endangered Rhino — TIME

Conservationists have released footage and photographs of the world’s rarest rhino, which counts fewer than 70 members among its population and is confined to a single national park in Indonesia. While camera-trap images of the Javan rhino have occasionally surfaced, a WWF spokesperson says the photographs released Monday are only the third manually captured set… via …

California AG warns felony charges if wild horses are sold for slaughter — Straight from the Horse’s Heart

https://www.youtube.com/embed/3Y_LAHTvTcQ?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent By Andrew Sheeler as published on the Sacramento Bee “To slaughter for commercial consumption mustangs that have roamed California for over a century is not only atrocious, but unlawful,” California Attorney General Xavier Becerra warned U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue in a letter that the U.S. Forest Service would be in violation …

Hey Everybody Come And See How Good I Look! — Through Open Lens

F/6.3, 1/100, ISO 500. Wild Turkey What exam do young witches have to pass? A spell-ing test! Interesting Fact: Wild Turkeys get around mostly by walking, though they can also run and fly—when threatened, females tend to fly while males tend to run. At sundown turkeys fly into the lower limbs of trees and move […] …