Sand food (Pholisma arenaria); Image: Matt Ritter
By Amina Sharma
This Friday Links we’re covering invasive plants, thirsty bees, a rare white hummingbird, plant-protecting dogs, mud (not in your eye hopefully), and other cool reads. Enjoy!
- How will the mountain lion cross the road? Most likely with the help of a wildlife crossing. (Los Angeles Times)
- Ice, ice baby—ice plant is everywhere in California, and it’s invasive. (KQED)
- To detect and conserve? These dogs are protecting plants from poachers. (SF Gate)
- A rare white hummingbird was spotted in Petaluma. (The Press Democrat)
- Mud isn’t glamorous, but for Bay-area wetlands, it’s magical. (Bay Nature)
- Like everyone else in the desert, bees get thirsty and are drinking water anywhere they can find it. (Los Angeles Times)
- First, you make a perfect plastic replica of the desert tortoise. Then you rig it to annoy the ravens who would want to eat it. And that’s how you help save an endangered species! (New Yorker)
- We have to restore nature and allow nature to again take over planet Earth so that we can stabilize the climate, says Susanna Muhamad, who will be president of COP16. (The Guardian)
- Why have some California counties in the foothills of the Sierras burned again and again? (New York Times)
- Funny for the day: The different phases of going on a huge hike. (Tik Tok)
