A soothing watercolor video
and two quick actions to defend public land
It’s been a minute! I miss you!
I’m also in the last stage of Poking the Squid book production: painting! Which I do all day every day, and is why I have not been in touch.
This is a painting of a frog swimming with the scientists Max Lambert and Melina Packer, and it’s in a chapter about how environmental toxicology has been really obsessed with whether frog gender is changed by toxics, and not focused enough on the impacts of chemical pollution in freshwater on human cancer rates. I’m very lucky to spend my days this way.
Meanwhile, if you feel assaulted by daily updates on how aggressive this administration is being about privatizing, selling, mining, logging, and otherwise trashing YOUR public lands: that’s because you’re right, they are. And they’re doing it as fast as they can so that you won’t notice in time.
NOT ON OUR WATCH, JERKS.
Action items this week:
Call the USDA executive secretariat (it took me two minutes) and tell them you oppose memo 1078-D06 which opens up HALF OF FEDERAL FORESTS to “emergency” unregulated logging. This will end the lives of many endangered species, is not good wildfire management, and will pollute drinking water and release tons of stored carbon.
Call your representatives and tell them the same thing, to defend federal forests from this logging, and also tell them to OPPOSE the appointment of Kathleen Sgamma, who is an oil and gas advocate, and believes there is “too much federal land”, to run the Bureau of Land Management.
You read that right: a person who believes there is too much federal land has been nominated to manage…federal land. She will sell it to fossil fuel companies.
STAY STRONG I LOVE YOU.
Perrin