I don’t understand why people insist on chopping down the few tall trees they have left.  Worse, it’s the properties around us, eliminating the dwindling shade, protection, and bridges between shrinking habitats.  This endangers native species essential to environmental balance and health.  Then the damage is completed by planting non-native invasives that crowd out the plants and animals that belong here to keep that balance.

Along with climate change, we’re destroying our own human habitat.  Pretty shortsighted.  Frustrating as it is, I’m not giving up; if anything, I’m more determined to make up for habitat loss by planting as many critter-friendly native trees and plants as I can in the short time I have left.  What people do when I’m gone, I can’t control, but I can try to restore a small island for wild refugees of human demolition.

At least we now have a President and cabinet that believe in science and can address our crises decisively, without having to answer to the medieval Inquisition.  It’s unbelievable that we still have mobs of deniers, whether of climate change or coronavirus severity.  It’s a relief just to have civilized leaders again, who can speak openly and factually, and move ahead with solutions.

Here are some “cravens” in “their” tree, one of the few left.