By Amina Sharma
Welcome to the first edition of Friday Links, where CNPS sends you off into the weekend with news and stories from the native plant world and those adjacent to it. Some stories will inspire you, others will inform, and there’s always room for something funny or weird.
- Think back in time to when glaciers covered 25% of the land on Earth. This ancient Palmer’s oak in Jurupa Valley survived the last Ice Age and efforts are on to protect it. (The Washington Post)
- A beautiful look at Good Fire: How the Tule River, North Fork Mono, and Tübatulabal Tribes are protecting giant sequoias with cultural burns. (The New York Times)
- Can a desert dweller like creosote make it in New York City? Find out how an architect made it happen for her apartment. Hopefully she got a grow light. (Dwell)
- It’s not your imagination—nights are warmer now too. And hot nights are fueling California’s wildfires. (The New York Times)
- Revisiting a giant of the environmental movement: The lyrical story behind Rachel Carson and Silent Spring. (The Marginalian)
- Novelist Amy Tan is turning to drawing and documenting birds in her Sausalito garden. See her beautiful depictions. (New York Times)
- From LAist, a thoughtful list of resources for parents and caregivers who are looking to explain Southern California Indigenous cultures and knowledge to children.
- While not depicting native plants, this beautiful time lapse of plants sprouting from seeds brings us into a world we don’t usually get to witness. (YouTube)
- Cartoon of the day (The New Yorker)
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