I have been using Mastodon for nearly three months now, and I can certainly say that it is very refreshing. I’m really glad I made the move and can easily accept the platform’s limitations and quirks because in exchange, I have a very positive experience.
Misc
Dormant Shrublands Are Not Fuel
Very often, when it comes to wildfires in Southern California, our hillsides of chaparral and sage scrub are described as being “heavy with fuels” in summer. In winter and spring, people speak of “fuels” that are going to build up when the vegetation awakes from its summer dormancy. That fuels my objection.
Thoughts on California Proposition 30
While this coming election makes a lot of choices really easy* there’s Proposition 30, on the California ballot: this is an environmental/climate related measure and simpy put, it would tax higher incomes (above $2 million annually) in order to help speed up the adoption of and transition to electric vehicles (via tax credits, charging infrastructure investments). A smaller amount of the collected tax would go towards wildfire prevention measures, and all that is bundled into some kind of “clean air” language. I guess that all sounds rather good?
The Los Padres National Forest Can Use Your Help
The Forest Service wants to log and grind 235,000 acres of habitat in the Los Padres National Forest in the name of fire safety and their science is questionable, at best…
June 2012 Throwback
The mid-month throwback to photographs and activities from 10 years ago, in July 2012. Special COVID-19 edition! :P
May 2012 Throwback
May is typically the time for “May Gray”, when the shift to summer weather pulls the cool ocean air in over the landscape west of the mountains, and this inversion causes dense, low clouds to build — the marine layer. Some people refer to it as “the overcast” as well. We’re not seeing that much of it so far in 2022, unfortunately, just a bit more atmospheric haze. The weather was more typical ten years ago, in May 2012, and you’ll see some of that in the “throwback” for this month, below.