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Andrew Hipp

@andrewlhipp.bsky.social

Plant systematist, herbarium director, ASPT outgoing president, naturalist, in the Chicago suburbs; posts reflect my views, not my employer's. 2024 book: Oak Origins... check it out: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo236998258.html

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Andrew Hipp@andrewlhipp.bsky.social · 6d ago

Guatemala oaks day one: lunch with colleagues, a panoramic view of the Guatemala landscape at a 100-year-old scale topographic model, studying oaks in the herbarium (USCG), collecting supplies ready for our departure tomorrow morning.

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Andrew Hipp@andrewlhipp.bsky.social · 7d ago

The human situation seems less a come-as-you-are party than a party to which we are bidden to come as our favorite character and, though we are sometimes cheap or shy, we do fairly well. -- Wm Bronk

Andrew Hipp@andrewlhipp.bsky.social · last wk.

"It is now more than forty years that I have paid some attention to the ornithology of this district, without being able to exhaust the subject: new occurrences still arise as long as any inquiries are kept alive." -- Gilbert White, The Natural History of Selbourne, Letter XLIX (May 7, 1779)

LETTER XLIX. TO THE SAME. Selborne, May 7, 1779. It is now more than forty years that I have paid some attention to the ornithology of this district, without being able to exhaust the subject: new occurrences still arise as long as any inquiries are kept alive. In the last week of last month five of those most rare birds, too uncommon to have obtained an English name, but known to naturalists by the terms of himantopus, or loripes, and charadrius himantopus, were shot upon the verge of Frinsham-pond, a large lake belonging to the bishop of Winchester, and lying between Wolmer-forest, and the town of Farnham, in the county of Surrey. The pond keeper says there were three brace in the flock; but that, after he had satisfied his curiosity, he suffered the sixth to remain unmolested. One of these specimens I procured, and... [end of page] 1 [The only foundation for the supposition that crickets and mole-crickets ruminate is that, like many other insects, they have a gizzard, set with hard ridges or teeth, behind the crop.] 2 [The black-winged stilt, an uncommon visitor to this country.]
Andrew Hipp@andrewlhipp.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Our forests can't afford another decade of inaction," U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said in a statement. "It's time to turn the page on the failed roadless rule and return our forests to health and productivity." All in the name of "health". www.npr.org/2026/08/18/n...

Trump administration moves to open untouched national forests to logging

The end of "roadless rule" protections would open millions of acres of pristine forests to commercial use. Supporters say it will lead to better managed forests.

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