WOW! Thank you so much for all of your hard work slowing them down! I’m intimately familiar with every one of those locations, having lived in Eureka, Nevada for 13 years as a photographer. I even working for some of “those” mining companies, so I’m intimately familiar with how those companies function. I always felt off working for these companies (those jobs funded my art making). I went so far as to donate back to nature what I made from a few of the jobs.
When I worked in Indonesia on the identification and protection of new conservation areas on Borneo island I used to present our work as different from other Nature Conservancy projects where we buy land to preserve species and ecosystems - in Indonesia we were simply trying to Buy Time to Preserve Options since the oil palm industry was and continues to run roughshod over some incredible intact primary diverse rainforests. Our work did that in a few instances, far too few for my impatience, but we were able to halt or slow the conversion of huge tracts of forest into oil palm plantations and in a couple cases get them conservation protection status. You are doing the same thing in the Mojave with the same strong headwinds of renewable energy development, mining exploration, groundwater depletion and human community expansion. Keep up the great work Patrick, and CBD fight on in the courts to make the BLM and other state and federal agencies do their jobs right!
I do appreciate your notes from the climate edge. Living in Florida, we have some similar challenges, and I draw inspiration from your attempt to document the happenings on the desert landscape. Both ecosystems are at great peril from corporate interests (over-development here is leading to deforestation, habitat loss and biodiversity decline), and I take note of how you are holding key interests responsible - or at the very least, sharing what you know that rarely (if ever) ends up in the news. Thanks for keeping this stack up and running with good content.
Thank you for your inspirational efforts to save these precious places!
WOW! Thank you so much for all of your hard work slowing them down! I’m intimately familiar with every one of those locations, having lived in Eureka, Nevada for 13 years as a photographer. I even working for some of “those” mining companies, so I’m intimately familiar with how those companies function. I always felt off working for these companies (those jobs funded my art making). I went so far as to donate back to nature what I made from a few of the jobs.
When I worked in Indonesia on the identification and protection of new conservation areas on Borneo island I used to present our work as different from other Nature Conservancy projects where we buy land to preserve species and ecosystems - in Indonesia we were simply trying to Buy Time to Preserve Options since the oil palm industry was and continues to run roughshod over some incredible intact primary diverse rainforests. Our work did that in a few instances, far too few for my impatience, but we were able to halt or slow the conversion of huge tracts of forest into oil palm plantations and in a couple cases get them conservation protection status. You are doing the same thing in the Mojave with the same strong headwinds of renewable energy development, mining exploration, groundwater depletion and human community expansion. Keep up the great work Patrick, and CBD fight on in the courts to make the BLM and other state and federal agencies do their jobs right!
Same battles up here in Oregon. Economic forces vs habitat forces. Meanwhile the whole West is heating up, drying up. Rapidly.
I do appreciate your notes from the climate edge. Living in Florida, we have some similar challenges, and I draw inspiration from your attempt to document the happenings on the desert landscape. Both ecosystems are at great peril from corporate interests (over-development here is leading to deforestation, habitat loss and biodiversity decline), and I take note of how you are holding key interests responsible - or at the very least, sharing what you know that rarely (if ever) ends up in the news. Thanks for keeping this stack up and running with good content.