I’ve been sitting on this photo for a really long time — and now that I share it, it is yet another memory, of something that is no more. This “tunnel” of Coast Live Oaks, like a canopy of ancient branches over the Green Valley Truck Trail at the Blue Sky Ecological Reserve (BSER), is now severely reduced, because a good part of the oaks that had formed it fell victim to the combination of drought stress, wind… climate change.
Climate Change
Hurting Ourselves
“We can certainly do great damage to the earth and the plants and animals that live here, but we are hurting nothing other than ourselves.” (Lawrence Hogue, “All the Wild and Lonely Places“)