Monthly Archives: December 2020

(Click here to listen to an audio version of this blog!) The biotic community supported by playa lakes is impressive. Almost three hundred and fifty plant species have been described around the playas in the PLR. Some of these plants … Continue reading →

(Click here to listen to an audio version of this blog!) Playa Lakes are transient bodies of surface water that form in the arid, southern Great Plains. They are especially abundant in the “Playa Lakes Region” (PLR) of northwest Texas, … Continue reading →

(Click here to listen to an audio version of this blog!) Over the past couple of weeks I have been talking about “re-wilding.” The basic idea of a re-wilding plan is to return a human-degraded ecosystem as close as possible … Continue reading →

(Click here to listen to an audio version of this blog!) I’ve talked about “re-wilding” ecosystems before. In Signs of Spring 8 (April 6, 2017) I discussed George Monbiont’s book Feral and his proposal to re-wild as much of the … Continue reading →

(Click here to listen to a audio version of this blog!) One of the things I got to do this past November as a new citizen of the state of Colorado was vote on a ballot initiative entitled “Proposition 114.” … Continue reading →