There was a noticeable absence of media coverage for Earth Day 2026. As advocates for wild spaces this was not unexpected . . .
but still . . .
Federal support is being systematically reduced and eliminated and that should be a red flag.
We’d like to encourage readers of this blog to engage in a bit of keyboard advocacy supporting wildlife and wild places.
It’s actually easy and effective to write your representative, their connections are a browser search away.
Our week was very low key.
Summer colds and house projects took up most of our energy. Lists of books read really isn’t blog post worthy. Neither is writing about what was accomplished.
We’re pretty sure you aren’t interested in what got checked off a ‘to-do list’. Understandable . . . we managed to use the time to re-energize.
Of course we did work in a trip to the river. The fishing was not that great, but weather was perfect, lots of birds flying round. Mostly we sat by the river and relaxed. It was nice.