“It’s hard not to feel…well, it has felt like failure there,” says Allen, who recently retired from the U.S. Geological Survey, and has monitored landscape change in these mountains since he was a Ph.D. student in the late 1970s. “We saw the vulnerability. But we could not act substantively enough, quickly enough to deal with it.”
Across the Earth, people are watching the impacts of climate change play out across their homelands, the places they depend upon and love. From rising seas lapping at the shores and inundating coasts to the highest mountains, where snowpacks are dwindling and glaciers receding, we are reeling from how these changes affect every aspect of our lives. In all of this, there is room for grief. These changes are dangerous and disorienting. But building new relationships with the landscapes around us will allow us to survive and give the other species we still share this planet with the chance to thrive.
California burn bosses set controlled forest fires Should they be safe from lawsuits?
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Plein air artists brave the elements to create.
From April 17 through April 22, dozens of artists set up easels in Fenton Lake, Battleship Rock, Soda Dam, Bandelier National Monument, Gilman Tunnels, the Jemez Historic site, numerous fishing and picnic areas along the Jemez river, the Valles Caldera, Jemez Falls and San Ysidro to take part in a paint out sponsored by the Plein Air Painters of New Mexico (PAPNM).
The pieces made during the six days will be on exhibit at the Jemez Fine Art Gallery through May 7.
Wendy Ahlm paints using oils at Ponderosa Winery. (Courtesy of Plein Air Painters of New Mexico)
The Good News About Climate Change: There’s Still Hope
With warming environments, landscapes are shifting. But life is still abundant.
When ecologist Craig Allen looks across the brown, grassy shrublands on the east flank of the Jemez Mountains in northern New Mexico, he feels no satisfaction that he was right.
Right that the world was warming. Right that warming would spur such large, severe fires that the forest he studied for decades would disappear. And right that increasing temperatures here and across the globe have made it too warm for conifer trees to regain even a toehold across many of their old landscapes.
California burn bosses set controlled forest fires. Should they be safe from lawsuits?
Sacramento Bee 1 hr ago Ryan Sabalow and Dale Kasler, The Sacramento Bee
Apr. 22 Across California, property owners and their burn bosses are setting fires. When the weather is cool, calm and wet enough, these planned forest fires are designed to clear overgrown vegetation that could accelerate a wildfire in dry months.
They do this knowing they risk financial ruin from a lawsuit if something goes wrong.
Now, Native American tribes, ranchers, timber companies and conservation groups are teaming up to reduce those liability risks in a battle that pits them against the state s powerful trial lawyers and insurance industries.
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