📢 Updated deadline - 15 October 📢

Call for Papers for @AntiquityTAG 2023

Session: “On the Wetland’s Edge: Iron Age Settlements, Environments and Cultural Interactions”

Qs and Submissions: TJR486@student.bham.ac.uk

https://tagnorwich2023.wordpress.com/on-the-wetlands-edge/

#TAG44 #TAG2023 #archaeology #wetlands #prehistory #ironage #CfP #conference #archaeologyconference #wetlandarchaeology

If you have any questions about living in the #wetlands of #Polesia, ask now.

BOTANY FIELD TRIP, SATURDAY, 9/16, BROOKLYN, NYCMARINE PARK IS THE LARGEST PARK IN BROOKLYN, AND CONTAINS 530 ACRES OF GRASSLAND AND SALT MARSH. COME JOIN THE TORREY BOTANICAL SOCIETY TO EXPLORE THIS IMPORTANT URBAN ECOSYSTEM, AND THE PLANTS THAT CALL IT HOME!TRIP LEADER: PRIYANTHA WIJESINGHEREGISTER: HTTPS://WWW.EVENTBRITE.COM/E/PLANTS-OF-MARINE-PARK-BROOKLYN-TICKETS-714729875297#BOTANY #BOTANISTS #BROOKLYN #NYC #EVENTS #FIELDTRIPS #WETLANDS #GRASSLANDS CC: @xris

Still processing Monday’s #birding photos, and I am pretty charmed by this immature kingfisher with one of his feathers stuck on his snoot after preening. 💙

#wetlands #Oregon #BirdPhotography

The vast bog that helps fight climate change

will this critically important peatland be listed as a #UNESCO #WorldHeritage site?

#carbon #FlowCountry #wildlife #habitat #wetlands #ClimateAction #Scotland https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-66728187

Tää on OK.

#suot #wetlands

#MeerMittwock #SeaWednesday

Napa River and Bay Trail

The waters, #wetlands and uplands you see along the Napa River Bay Trail are part of an interconnected watershed system that drains into the San Francisco Bay. Except for the section north of Imola Avenue in the City of Napa, the route is also part of the ambitious 500 mile-long region-wide San Francisco Bay Trail, now a little more than half completed.

#Napa #NapaCounty #SFBay #California #hiking #walking #biking #birding #BirdWatching

https://napaoutdoors.org/parks/napa-river-bay-trail/

@clive @DKMJ Interesting idea! As the article says: there are ways to handle beaver conflicts - or rather: to prevent the conflicts ever to arise. And #beavers are so skilled at creating super #wetlands, giving space to lots of other species!

Wetlands are bewitching ecological wonderlands! Basically every time I go #birding in the wetlands I come home wanting to belt the song “The Swamps of Home”!

“In my soul is the beauty of the bog; in my memory, the magic of the mud.
I know that blood is thicker than water, but the swamps of home are thicker than blood!”

#wetlands #Oregon

(Link is to audio of Carol Burnett singing this song in the original Broadway production of “Once Upon a Mattress”:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Udydm_Mf4Q

I am happily flummoxed I got decent photos of these dear river otters that approached me curiously today! I was so awed and flustered I spent the 30 seconds of their closest approach staring, hoping they weren’t trying to warn me off, and absolutely forgetting to use the iPhone I’d fished out of my pocket (as they were by then too close for my zoom lens!)

I wasn’t even 100% sure whether there were 3 heads or 4 in that shifting Celtic knot of otters!

#RiverOtter #wetlands #NaturePhotography

Oops.

No, she's not responsible for this. We expected this tree would fall much earlier.

#IdąPsięta $Polesia #forest #wetlands

after supreme court ruling last spring, many US wetlands lose protection.

"This rule spells out how the [Supreme Court] decision has undermined our ability to prevent the destruction of our nation's wetlands, which protect drinking water, absorb floods and provide habitat for wildlife."

#environment #nature #wetlands #law

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/29/1196654382/epa-wetlands-waterways-supreme-court

#wetland #ecologist, why post so much about the #housing minister and the #housingcrisis ?

#urban development is a major driver of #wetlandloss in #ontario and the Provincial Policy Statement (under the Planning Act) is the source of protection for Provincially Significant #wetlands. The Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing is the lead Ministry for the PPS as well as policy instruments like the #greenbelt Plan.

Housing matters to wetlands.

#onpoli #conservation #environment

"There is a clear need to bring back the beaver to Britain to help us manage the growing impacts of climate change such as flooding, droughts and wildfires. Unfortunately the environment secretary is delaying the decision on allowing their licensed release into the wild. Indeed she even seems to be considering a potentially disastrous removal of beavers’ protected status, a further sign that this government is weak on environmental issues.”
#Beavers #Wetlands #UKPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/03/beavers-are-back-but-scientists-fear-defras-silence-on-protection-deal

To mow, or not to mow?

#wetlands #Polesia

"The Biden administration weakened regulations protecting millions of acres of wetlands on Tuesday, saying it had no choice after the supreme court sharply limited the federal government’s jurisdiction over them."

#US #USA #America #Wetlands #EPA #Environment

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/30/epa-rule-weakens-wetlands-protections-supreme-court-ruling

@breadandcircuses Now I feel conflicted; wouldn't #MiyawakiForests be pretty much the same type of #wetlands they describe in this article?

Which leads me to my next question, which is: if the Miyawaki forests *are* essentially the same as these wetlands, is there then no positive aspects of the forest to outweigh the potentially armageddon-provoking negatives?

EDIT: Sorry, I didn't realize my web client inserted the "Long post" cw. lol

@breadandcircuses be sure to pave any #wetlands that you find as well!

Indiana lost more than 260 acres of wetlands since rolling back protections
https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/indiana-lost-more-than-260-acres-of-wetlands-since-rolling-back-protections
#ycombinator #IPB #wetlands

We studied more than 1,500 coastal ecosystems - they will drown if we let the world warm above 2℃

https://theconversation.com/we-studied-more-than-1-500-coastal-ecosystems-they-will-drown-if-we-let-the-world-warm-above-2c-211431

> Rising seas are pushing coastal ecosystems to the limit of endurance. Now international research reveals a “tipping point” will be reached if we allow more than 2 degrees of global warming.

#climate #wetlands #coast