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Nature sure is neat, huh?
Fun facts & deep thoughts for a better tomorrow 🤙

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Surf portraits from the #westcoasttripleplank
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It's always good to remind all of y’all that this is STILL HAPPENING on stolen land, often without indigenous consent, in high-risk deferral areas, despite what the government says 🤯 written and created by @nerdyaboutnature

Green veils are strips of trees that act as a visual barrier from roads that keeps folks from seeing the destructive practices that industry uses to “manage” our forests, and they first came about in the early 90’s during the Timber Wars & the War in the Woods.

As easy as it is to cast blame on the forest industry for clearcutting and using methods like this to deceive and sway the public, it’s important to remember that as a society nothing exists in a silo. Yes, industry has done and still does some questionable, horrific and ecologically irresponsible things, but government is responsible for setting guidelines and rules for those companies to abide by, and those are set by the demands and values of citizens.

It’s up to us, the people, to demand rules and regulations from the government to protect the world we live in from the demands of ourselves so that we can not only survive as individuals, as families with children, but as a species. We need to hold government accountable for making the changes they promised to make 3 years ago, and redistribute power from the few corporations running the industry to give it back to our communities whom live amongst these lands.

So next time you’re driving and you see a green veil…ask yourself if that’s the kind of world you want to live in.

📸@nerdyaboutnature is one of the best accounts on IG!!

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Inviting listeners to consider what systems change may mean beyond the individual level, @nerdyaboutnature brings deep contemplation on what it means to resist in times like these to this week’s episode.

1 How can we all unite in a way where we can influence change to the top 1% who really don’t want things to change because they benefit immensely from having things the way that they are?

2 These are very difficult times to be living amongst. Everything is in question…  3 Our whole structure of what we thought life meant, was supposed to be, is kind of thrown up into this ambiguous questioning right now because our future is so uncertain in so many ways…  4 You can’t create change in a system that doesn’t actually want to change. So it’s not the people, it’s the system.  5 Ross Reid on How We Talk About What Matters, For The Wild; Photo @joelwcaldwell of Ross Reid walking among old growth

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🎵 by @green_house1976 courtesy of @leavingrecords

#RossReid
#NerdyAboutNature
#ScienceCommunication
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#OldGrowth
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Inviting listeners into his deep connection with the forest and the natural world, @nerdyaboutnature brings an inspirational energy and commitment to this interview.

Connecting around their shared love for old growth and wild places, Ross and Ayana consider what it means to get people interested in protecting the places that sustain us. How can we inspire the connection with the land that brings people to defend it.

Ross shares the journey behind his work as “Nerdy About Nature,” and the passion for education, science, and the outdoors that drives the project. Breaking down what he wants people to get from his content, he considers how to get people to pay attention to the issues that matter without feeding into the seemingly endless loop of the attention economy. Ross and Ayana delve into critical questions about advocacy and activism in times of social media, and consider what it would truly mean to engage in action that connects and protects.

This conversation brings together rooted optimism, an understanding of the importance of education and knowledge sharing, and a dream of better systems that protect both people and the land. Ross leaves listeners to investigate their own connections to the land and to consider the many ways it is mediated by cultural and political intervention.

Based in the Cascadian bioregion, Ross runs a passion project called Nerdy About Nature in which he shares fast-paced, fun, informative videos about nature and the world around us as a means of breaking down barriers to access factual science-based education, while providing critical insight and constructive conversation on environmental and social issues to encourage positive changes in this world to create a more diverse, inclusive, equitable and just future for us all.

🎵 by @green_house1976 courtesy of @leavingrecords   Photo @joelwcaldwell of Ross Reid walking among old growth
 1 Anyway you can make a divide, social media seems to be doing that.
 Slide ID in comments…. Anyway you can make a divide, social media seems to be doing that.

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Terry and the @mif_ubc program were thrilled to join Ross Reid (@nerdyaboutnature) for a fun and informative walk through the forest. 🌲

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Nature is the blueprint.

Watch members of the Redd Fish Restoration Society use helicopters and heavy equipment to build a bioengineered structure on the Tranquil River, in Tla-o-qui-aht territory, on Vancouver Island. Made with salvaged logs, the structure aims to reverse erosion caused by two centuries of clearcut logging.

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Working for the watershed.

On Vancouver Island, abandoned and decaying logging roads are causing hillsides to collapse, sending debris and sediment into critical salmon habitat. Learn about the Redd Fish Restoration Society’s slope stabilization work and how it’s helping a healthy, mature forest ecosystem once again take root.

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On November 20th, a total of 79 volunteers came out to help clean-up Florencia Bay, including the Surfrider Youth Club! In just 3-hours, 374.8lbs of debris was removed from a stretch 2km of coastline. Volunteers came up with creative and collaborative ways to safely remove tricky debris, including a tire and a saturated carpet weighing in at almost 100lbs alone!

Other marine debris removed from the beach included:
🌊 175L of styrofoam
🌊12 hard plastic and foam buoys
🌊141 single-use items (a large portion being aluminum cans, shotgun shells and female sanitary products)
🌊62 plastic bottles
🌊 1000+ hard plastic fragments and micro plastics
🌊10 cigarette butts
🌊 1 oyster crate
🌊 30 textiles and shoes
🌊29.4lbs of fishing/aquaculture rope
🌊7.8lbs or soft plastics and wrappers
🌊6 scraps of metal
🌊20 glass fragments/bottles
🌊15 pieces of treated wood

Thank you to all our volunteers for there incredible work and shared passion to protect these valuable coastal spaces.

If you’re interested in supporting our Chapter and the work we do, please consider checking out our 2023 Sessions Fundraiser Online Auction (link in bio), open now. Or you can donate to us directly through our website (link in bio). 💙

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The locals keeping a close eye on us during some kelp monitoring surveys last summer - check out this little fluffball!  This sea otter is known as a ‘pioneer’ - a lone male making his way south from populations in the Clayoquot Sound down into the Barkley Sound to check it out and see how habitable it is before bringing his friends and family to the area. After sea otters populations were extirpated from Vancouver Island during the fur trade of the 16th to 19th centuries, new populations were introduced from Alaska in an attempt to re-establish the species in the area, and its incredible to see them thriving and spreading!

Sea otters have long been recognized as an example of a keystone species whose presence has a disproportionately large effect on their natural environment relative to their abundance. These dominant predators help maintain ecosystem balance and, as pictured above, form mutualistic relationships with kelp species!

Healthy kelp forests are a good indication of wild salmon health and, as taught by the Nuu-chah-nulth principle, his-shuk-nish-tsa-waak (everything is one).

Stay tuned for more findings from our kelp monitoring series this year!

🎥 @nerdyaboutnature

#seaotter #wildlife #nature #kelp

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Remember the two chum from our last post? They made a redd! A salmon nest! A pocket of eggs buried within the gravel.

Fast forward to spring, and these developing embryos are in their pre-hatching period - small, round, and pale orange. As they near hatching, they will turn vibrant in colour. As soon as one egg starts hatching, it releases an enzyme into the water, triggering a mass hatching event!

However, these tiny eggs face a significant threat: redd scour. Heavy floods and storms can move the gravel and rocks of a redd around, washing away the eggs. Climate change is causing more frequent and intense precipitation events, leading to increased water velocity and erosion of riverbanks and streambeds, leaving salmon redds more vulnerable than ever before.

Yet, despite these challenges, these tiny eggs hold the promise of new life on the West Coast, serving as a foundational part of our coastal ecosystems as they mature.

🎥 @nerdyaboutnature

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Salmon really tie the watershed together.

In this four-part series, Ross Reid gets boots on the ground with the Redd Fish Restoration Society on Vancouver Island to show how they work with local communities, including Ahousaht, Hesquiaht, Toquaht, Tla-o-qui-aht and Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ First Nations, to restore a watershed damaged by two centuries of clearcut logging.

“A redd is a salmon’s nest,” says Jessica Hutchinson, executive director of the Redd Fish Restoration Society, “and the redd requires connectivity. It’s dependent upon the health of the river, the health of the forest, the health of marine ecosystems. The redd is where it all starts and where it all finishes, but everything in between must be cared for as well.”

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REPOSTED FROM @nerdyaboutnature: I sat down with Charlotte Dawe from the Wilderness Committee to chat all about biodiversity in BC, the Canadian Species at Risk Act, takeaways from COP15 and much more on the most recent podcast episode - tons of great takeaways, like this extravagant shortcoming of SARA in BC. 😳

Watch / listen on YouTube, Spotify, Apple or wherever else you get your podcasts, all via the link in my bio!

@chaardawe @wildernews

#podcast #biodiversity #bc #sara #speciesatrisk #policy #cop15 #un

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