Jessica, thank you for your kind comment. I'll never get over that I work as a simple gardener, yet a third maybe more of the plants I work with are rare and endangered, some VERY rare and endangered.
I get frustrated giving nature tours or tours of our facility, pointing out a plant, and telling folks, "This one of the rarest flowering plants in North America," only to have them look at me unimpressed, as if to say, "What else does it do?"
I get it. It’s like when I give a talk about species extinction and people ask what creatures are at risk. I give names to animals in our world that aren’t terribly “exciting,” like insects they haven’t heard of, and their expressions are...underwhelmed. But I always say that if I reach just one person, my work has been successful. And we really never know when we’ll reach them - now or later.
That 91% wetlands loss has been a tragic loss for migratory birds along the Pacific flyway. It's a shocking reminder of how much harm we have done, one cut at a time.
Oh my, yes! The Tijuana Estuary, south of where I work, can be filled with terns, gulls, and shorebirds. The rest of the coast must have been like that 200 years ago.
You don’t know how that action of adding the seablite to the exhibit will impact others...it is an important step you are taking. 🌍
Jessica, thank you for your kind comment. I'll never get over that I work as a simple gardener, yet a third maybe more of the plants I work with are rare and endangered, some VERY rare and endangered.
I get frustrated giving nature tours or tours of our facility, pointing out a plant, and telling folks, "This one of the rarest flowering plants in North America," only to have them look at me unimpressed, as if to say, "What else does it do?"
Thanks again. Your note encourages me.
I get it. It’s like when I give a talk about species extinction and people ask what creatures are at risk. I give names to animals in our world that aren’t terribly “exciting,” like insects they haven’t heard of, and their expressions are...underwhelmed. But I always say that if I reach just one person, my work has been successful. And we really never know when we’ll reach them - now or later.
That 91% wetlands loss has been a tragic loss for migratory birds along the Pacific flyway. It's a shocking reminder of how much harm we have done, one cut at a time.
Oh my, yes! The Tijuana Estuary, south of where I work, can be filled with terns, gulls, and shorebirds. The rest of the coast must have been like that 200 years ago.