Mother Nature's Son

sit beside a mountain stream, see her waters rise

the restoration of native species at the Channel Islands has been a flop and waste of money and resources..the National Parks Service and non-profit Nature Conservancy will tell you differently...they will tell you the restoration is a big success..some people will tell you anything...

 

 

one need only to look around to see...and when I visited Lake Casitas just over the hill last year, I saw all I needed to see...of course, I saw the bald eagles in the eucalyptus trees...they were building a nest..they are refugees from the Channel Island restoration mayhem...the biologists have tried to force the bald eagles to live on the islands, but they keep fucking with the habitat...cutting down eucalyptus trees and poisoning rodents is not a restoration, it's an abomination....the bald eagles are not nesting successfully on the islands..at Pelican Harbor the nest failed...at Sauces Canyon, eggs were laid but ravens got them! Verde Canyon a nest was found with a bunch of feathers next to it...meaning something killed the chicks....

 

however, the bald eagles are doing very well at Lake Casitas because people have left them and their habitat alone..pure and simple...when they start cutting down the eucalyptus trees at Lake Casitas is when I'll go up there with my Henry..let's hope that day never comes...

ok so we are in a drought and another native preaching jackass has been writing letters to the editor of various papers..the News-Press and the Montecito Journal-both conservative rags...the MJ owns the Sentinel as I've pointed out before and the Sentinel has teamed with this native-preaching jackass to hold a little beer party at the Botanical Gardens..

 

the native-preaching jackass is Dr. Steve Windhager executive director of the Botanic Gardens...unfortunately the reputation of the BG has been hurt with the Fife Symington episode..Fife and Ann skipped town after my expose on them...and I'm not done with them yet...

but this Windhager dude is on my radar..he tells us to plant native plants for the drought and yet he's hosting a beer party with some fuck from the Sentinel...it take 20 gals of water to make a glass of beer! is that a good water footprint? is that a smart way for the Botanic Garden to do business?

and the latest fiasco is they covered the meadow with plastic sheeting to kill weeds so they can restore it to a 1940's flowery vision! the Botanic Garden was never meant to be native-only..it highlighted plants from all over until the plant Nazis moved in...

so today I will start my investigation into the Botanic Gardens with audits, stealth, and undercover visits...and this beer party...do we need to encourage drunk people to drive those winding roads in Mission Canyon?

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