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The Daily Bucket - Life and Death among the Wildflowers
This story takes place during the Recent Before Times. No, I’m not talking about 2019, the era before Covid-19. That’s ancient history now. Let’s refer to that era as the Archaic Before Times.To...
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The Daily Bucket - Views of old growth forest they won't show on calendars
What adjectives come to mind when you think about an ancient forest? For many people, the list will include words like incredible, majestic, awesome, inspiring, cathedral-like, and timeless. There is...
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The Daily Bucket - Recent research and news articles related to forest...
This article is a companion piece to the diary that I posted on August 15, Views of old growth forest they won't show on calendars.Given that major forest fires have dominated the headlines for several...
View ArticleLocal, National, International Energy (and Other) Events Listings for...
These kinds of events are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped...
View ArticleEnergy and Other Events
These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that...
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Scandinavia Travel Part 3 - Beyond the Arctic Circle by Train
The previous diary left all of you standing at the train station in Boden, Sweden, a tad south of the Arctic Circle. Today we will continue our northward trek across snowy fields and forests, past...
View ArticleNo, Smokey Bear didn't cause more wildfires. Humans did. We need leadership...
Our forests are under existential threat from climate change, and the federal response is confused, misinformed and disorganized. There’s not enough time to waste making more mistakes. We need to...
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The Daily Bucket - The Grandfather Pine Tree
Three years ago when I was working in Idaho, I encountered an ancient ponderosa pine tree at the edge of a rocky meadow. It bore the scars of a few centuries of existence. Fire, lightning, snow, wind,...
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The Daily Bucket - Oddities Observed in the Idaho Woods
Ever since leaving Georgia in June, I’ve been taking pictures with the idea of using them in diaries. But when I’m not in the woods, I’m usually feeling lazy. It’s way easier to read someone else’s...
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The Daily Bucket - Idaho Storm Clouds, Photo Diary
Whenever I’m working in the west, I enjoy taking pictures of stormy landscapes. I often have the advantage of wide open spaces, where power lines and billboards don’t interfere with the pictures. When...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Urgency and agency—our winning combo to manage climate...
Now that the effects of climate change are unmistakably present in our daily lives—myriad wildfires around the globe, 100-year floods occuring every few years, eerily warm winters, hurricane warnings...
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When good intentions turn out badly - Canadian wildfires in the context of...
There is a guest editorial in The NY Times by Claire Cameron (Link through the paywall): We Thought We Were Saving the Planet but We Were Planting a Time BombCameron, like many Canadians, once spent a...
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The Daily Bucket - Fall Colors in a Western Conifer Forest
My work area in western Idaho is dominated by green conifers: Douglas-fir, ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine, grand fir, Engelmann spruce, and western larch. The latter species displays bright yellows and...
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The Daily Bucket - Spires
This is a quick diary that I will post when there’s no other Bucket in the queue. I’ve spent most of my life admiring green trees reaching for the sky. This diary is dedicated to other objects that do...
View ArticleOn the first day of Climate Change, my true love gave to me; Trees, lots of...
In my spare thinking time, you know, when I’m at work, I think of lots of crazy ideas about lots of different things. One day I was thinking about carbon capture and trying to figure out a low cost,...
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The Daily Bucket: Friday Sequence, Dismantling a Dangerous Tree
It should come as no surprise that a forester would have a yard full of trees. The benefits of having trees, however, must be balanced aganist the risks they pose.A certain water oak tree (species...
View ArticleSome Food, Agriculture, and Climate Events in April 2024
More details for each event at http://hubevents.blogspot.com which is also a free listservForest Loss in 2023: Regional Contexts and Global TrendsThursday, April 49 - 10am EDT OnlineRSVP at...
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The Daily Bucket: Early Spring Day at Franklin D Roosevelt State Park, Georgia
The area around Pine Mountain and Warm Springs in western Georgia features some of the most rugged terrain outside the mountainous northern part of the state. A high ridge runs for about 15 miles from...
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