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Regarding the US Government emergency designation in early April ... to roll back environmental safeguards around future logging projects:

apnews.com/article/trump-natio

I compared the map of affected national forests:
usda.gov/sites/default/files/d
(see screenshot #1)

...with a map of national forests (and grasslands) in New Mexico:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil
(see graphic #2)

The overwhelming majority of national forest acreage in New Mexico is affected. :-(

Shijie Ning et al. investigated the response of #Grassland #AbovegroundNetPrimaryProductivity (ANPP) to naturally occurring #PrecipitationExtremes, found that #ExtremeDrought decreased ANPP by an average of 40%, while #ExtremeWetness had a neutral effect on ANPP. The aridity-dependent response of ANPP to precipitation extremes demonstrates the ambient #Climate-dependent resistance of grasslands to these events.
Details: doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtae084

The image is a black and white photograph depicting tall grasses or reeds bending in the wind against a light sky background. The composition is minimalistic, with the grasses taking up the lower portion of the image and the sky filling the rest. There are no prominent objects or figures, creating a serene and natural scene.

#Minimalism #NatureLovers #Serenity #BlackAndWhite #Grassland #Monochrome #PeacefulMoment #OutdoorVibes #NaturePhotography #CalmScenes

The common #farming view that #grassland regions are only good for #livestock amounts to a simplistic traditionality narrative that may discount the potential of these regions to align food production with balanced, diverse & #sustainable consumption. The narrative about what land is good for has been shaped as much by mutable human-made limitations and the #policy responses to them, as by the inherent qualities of land & soil types: doi.org/10.1017/S0956793324000 #landuse #cattle #grazing #meat #dairy

Cambridge Core‘We can only grow grass here’: Unsettling the traditionality of grassland narrative | Rural History | Cambridge Core‘We can only grow grass here’: Unsettling the traditionality of grassland narrative