nature's way

it's nature's way of telling you..something's wrong

On the way to my ranch, I passed the new Lagunitas development in Carp.....they took perfectly good ag land and let it sit for ten years until Lagunitas was finally approved..first it was sold, then downsized and now the bull dozers will build some more housing for Carp.....this area in on the way to Ojai and Highway 150 where I hang out alot..I'm on the way to a little hike....like I said, on my ranch..out here...

but Lagunitas looks mighty bad to me....unnecessary....and will probably default when the houses don't get sold....like Lavender Court downtown.....

anyway, I get to my ranch and walk around and see some cool things....my dead fox friend has been dismembered...all that's left is some fur, a leg and his skull... I think that's a fox skull..the scavengers took care of business..at least someone is doing their job right!!

and I see some thistle plants starting to reform...the wind is blowing and seeds are being scattered everywhere..that's called dispersal and the nativists don't undersatnd this simple concept, so they try to remove everything that is non-native...

like in Los Osos..the Morro Coast Chapter of the Audubon Society is bent on removing a stand of blue gum eucalyptus trees in a preserve because they are from Australia, or "non-native" according to these muttonheads.. they want to replace the trees with native species and install interpretive signs...what ever happened to just going for a walk without some idiot explaining things to you???

like this idiot, the former president of the chapter, flipping off someone who confronted him about the eucs...I think this little hippie is now on my radar....Ponterelli is his name...

I would think the Audubon Society would know the value of blue gum eucalyptus trees to raptors...put a sycamore and a blue gum side by side, and a hawk or owl will choose a blue gum..and sycamores are beautiful trees that thrive next to eucs....so plant more sycamores!!!
but no, they jump on the native only bandwagon to get money..and the Fish and Game Dept keeps enabling these non-profits and demonizing the trees...after all, the Audubon Society is named after a guy who studied birds...his name was John James Audubon and he was born in Haiti!! not exactly a native guy..but I do believe he would have wanted the eucs to stay..these folks using his name to make money and destroy trees are imposters!!! the original intent of the AS was conservation and now it has changed to "habitat restoration" which is code for the native only cult to destroy plants and animals that are labeled non native..

Save Sweet Springs trees is on facebook...

A Sand County Almanac provides abundant thought for those of us working in community forestry. Although Leopold states that "planting a pine is an act of creation" , he also argues against a mere "zeal for roadside beauty" that doesn't take into account the history of the land or the balance of its historic species. He warns that changes made in the service of improvement can also bring wounds:
Each substitution of a tame plant or animal for a wild one, or an artificial waterway for a natural one, is accompanied by a readjustment in the circulating system of the land. We do not understand or foresee these readjustments; we are unconscious of them unless the end effect is bad...we are so busy with new tinkerings to think of end effects...

the eucs in Los Osos and elsewhere have been naturalized....they belong here...they are not evil, they don't bully the native species because native species sometimes don't thrive in their so-called "natural " environment...this is all just crazy and what smells better than eucalyptus after rain?? nothing...nothing does

ok so the Audubon Society and Nature Conservancy are two non profits on my radar..the owls and hawks that use eucalyptus don't give a crap whether it is native or not...and as mentioned they choose the eucs that stand side by side with sycamores because the eucs provide better protection...that's a fact....I've seen it with my very own eyes....
there is a movement on to nativize California ....without regard to the multitude of non-natives that grow simple because it's natures way... it's nature's way of receiving you...