Ross Reid, Nature Nerd
@nerdyaboutnature.bsky.social
Nature sure is neat, huh? Fun facts & deep thoughts for a better tomorrow 📍Coast Salish & Nuučaan̓uł Lands, 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦
What kind of world do you want to live in? Check out the latest podchat with Laura Griffith-Cochrane on your favourite podcasting platform, all available in my bio, to learn more about these awesome creatures and places just under the waves! #podcast #marine #education #nature #funfacts
Thanks to Ross Reid @nerdyaboutnature.bsky.social for including my 2015 book about Forest Ecology, British Columbia's colonial history, and the Resonance of First Nation's Culture from past to present, in such good company. Check out these books and read. www.nerdyaboutnature.com/books
The Fix Our Forest Act aims to totally f**k our forests. Take action: oregonwild.org/safeguard-ou...
Problems with the Fix Our Forests Act
It's actually planning on totally f**king our forests 😳
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Blows my mind the type of silly compassionless things people find to complain about on the internet these days 🙄
Plant Diversity in Japan is pretty dang incredible! But how did it come to be? A mix of glaciation, geothermal activity, and lots of time! #science #edu #evolution #nature
Plant Diversity in Japan
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Funny to see the BC forestry industry so terrified of the US tariffs hurting business, when they could’ve just embraced the Paradigm Shift introduced by the NDP 4+ years ago and actually been more insulated and resilient to these global shifts…but instead chose to chase short term profits. Classic 😂
Endless growth on a finite planet is probably the stupidest idea anyone has ever had 🙄 Why can’t people / companies just stay in their lane, stay small, and give back when they are successful instead of trying ti take over the whole dang world?! Support local, wherever you are🤙
Drove by a McDonalds earlier and got a craving for a McFlurry and fries…but then remembered that the closest the US has ever come to a class consciousness uprising was spoiled by a McDonalds employee who ratted on Luigi, ironically, for the reward money that they weren’t even paid. I kept driving.
Can we please stop getting hung up on everyone’s shortcomings and just start doing better already…?
Do you ever notice how much our societies have normalized complaining about others for their shortcomings as a way of avoiding or taking responsibility for our own? #japan #hypocrisy #trash #plastic #cars #whalehunt #oldgrowthforest #logging #dobetter
Always faulting others instead of reflecting on ourselves 🙄 Can't just start doing better already?
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The Curious Case of how the Pacific Wax Myrtle came to be where it is today…just in case you needed another reminder that us humans are active parts of these ecosystems, not apart from them 🙌 #education #nature #funfacts #thinkdifferently #pnw
The Curious Case of how the Pacific Wax Myrtle came to be where it is today.
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Maybe one of the coolest trees I've ever come across 😍 #nature #education #funfacts #inspiration
Incredible Vegetative Regeneration in a Magnificent Maple
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A deep dive thought experiment into a sensitive subject in the hopes that we can all grow and push ourselves to do better. Read the whole thing by subscribing to my substack today!
Is Outdoor Recreation a form of Resource Extraction?
Reframing our relationship to enjoying the 'great outdoors'
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This follows up my last post nicely - renewables may be the future of energy, but O&G is just going to pivot and find a way to take advantage of our plastics addiction. Is it too bad of a pun to say that they’ve got plastics on their mind…? Cuz it’s literally in all of our brains 😳
Grist@grist.org · 2y agoExxon is quietly planning a new $8.6 billion plastics plant in Texas. grist.org/accountabili... #TX #Texas #Plastic #Pollution #Climate
Despite the oil-loving rhetoric from trump and the conservatives, the future is renewable. It’s already here in many ways!
Grist@grist.org · 2y agoCalifornia just debunked a big myth about renewable energy. The state went a record 98 of 116 days providing up to 10 hours of electricity with renewables alone. grist.org/energy/calif... #Energy #CA #California #Renewables #Solar
Habitat formation for megafauna in the Coast Redwoods is pretty wild, and theres so much of it! Unfortunately, there's not much demand...because we've killed most of the megafauna 🫤 #forest #ecology #howstuffworks #bears #redwoods #america
Habitat for Megafauna in Coast Redwood Forests
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More carbon stored in complex forests = good Carbon released from clear cutting forests = bad It's simple!
Coast Redwoods store HUGE amounts of Carbon - Some of the biggest stores of carbon on our planet!
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Trying to get in the habit of writing more in preparation for a bigger project I’m eyeing up this year; check out the substack to stay in the loop!
Across the Pond for a Shift in Perspective
Reflections from a spontaneous trip to Japan
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Coast Redwoods have two distinct types of leaves - one optimized for gathering sunlight, and one optimized for collecting moisture...but why? #redwoods #science #education #nature #evolution
Why Coast Redwoods Evolved to have Two Different Types of Leaves
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Let’s take a look at how ecological forest restoration can help create healthier lands and communities! 🙌🌲 #forest #restoration #ecology #nature #science #logging #education
The Results of Ecological Forest Restoration in a Secondgrowth Forest
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From this point forward I will only ever refer to ‘Teslas’ as Naziwagons or Nazitrucks. We need to boycott billionaires, especially the racist ones.
The urge to jump on and respond with 'hot takes' to the past 4 days of enviro and social regulation loss has been overwhelming...instead, I've been trying to take time to stay grounded, think through the visceral emotional reactions to the madness, and move forward constructively. Stay focused🙌
Found some invasive English Ivy in a local Coastal Oldgrowth Forest, so Pintxo & I took it upon ourselves to cut it out to keep the lands we live on healthier for longer!
How to pull invasive English Ivy
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If the world was in flames, and there was a group of hundreds of people scrambling to grab buckets of water to try and put out the fire, but there was one person standing by, kicking cigarette butts and gasoline into the fire, would you grab a can of gas or bucket of water? #climate #usa #unfollow
Reflecting on the Kyoto Protocol in Kyoto
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Really kinda feels like the world’s falling apart these days huh? 😳
For those of you who often ski / board solo, let me introduce to my latest #lifehack - the rip n’ read. Currently reading Hospicing Modernity by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira. 10/10 recommend
Keep in mind that while Whitebark Pine are currently endangered, this doesn’t mean that warming temps will suddenly open up a whole new host of habitat for them, as it still takes them thousands of years to migrate and this #anthropogenic change is happening on decades long timescales
Melting ice reveals millennia-old forest buried in the Rocky mountains
Trees dating back almost 6000 years have come to scientists' attention due to ice melting in the Rocky mountains, offering a "time capsule" into the past
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