peri lee

Botany M.S 🌱✨@CABotanicGarden ✨🌱 From Taiwan 🇹🇼 Stoked on floristics, cats, & environmental justice 🌈 BLM

[peri lee @desertbotany]

@BasinRange Yes the photos are from that area. It's hard to witness.

[peri lee @desertbotany]

Scenes from conducting rare plant surveys in areas of the California desert where solar projects are either already proposed or are vulnerable to future development. Is this a landscape we want to "sacrifice"? Is it really a "green alternative" if we clearcut ecosystems?

[peri lee @desertbotany]

@kcfirl There are ways solar could be implemented, like rooftop/parking lot installation, that don't involve this type of landscape scale destruction. We shouldn't need to trade in the desert.

[peri lee @desertbotany]

@ailaminad Oh cool! Yeah totally!

[Sam Knowlton @samdknowlton]

Prairie strips are a farm conservation practice that requires minimal intervention and delivers huge benefits

By converting 10% of cropland to native prairie, farmers can reduce soil loss by 95%, total phosphorous loss by 90%, and total nitrogen loss by 85%

A quick summary:

[peri lee @desertbotany]

@ailaminad Probably, a background for what?

[peri lee @desertbotany]

We should demand rooftop solar and other less destructive ways of utilizing this technology. This destruction of the desert is akin to the old growth clear-cutting of the 20th century. Large scale solar kills life.

[peri lee @desertbotany]

@bitterwaterblue This is tragic, that spring is so unique

[Basin & Range Watch @BasinRange]

So it never was about being green, it is about going zero to 60 in three seconds. Your message is "we can continue to waste energy as long as we mine the planet to extinction for "green" minerals," Try thinking outside of the box and using less and saving resources.

[Naomi Fraga @naomibot.bsky.social @naomibot]

📢Calling all Botanists!

BLM is in the early phases of permitting for the Rhyolite Ridge Lithium Mine which would drive Tiehm's buckwheat to extinction.

Join me to take a stand against extinction & save Tiehm's buckwheat. Please sign on! #Teambuckwheat https://t.co/KXaAIN8Yek

[Basin & Range Watch @BasinRange]

Bureau of Land Mangement just told us they no longer support "vegetation mowing" for solar projects because it is "more destructve" than traditional clearing. They now promote "drive and crush" - the idea that 50,000 pound vehiciles run over all plants have the least impact.😵‍💫

[Naomi Fraga @naomibot.bsky.social @naomibot]

Hey #BotanyTwitter, @desertbotany and I worked on a syllabus for a course called Botany & Society aka 'power plants people'. We're leading discussion on it this semester. It includes topics on colonial botany, capitalism & extraction, and diversity, & inclusion issues & more.

[Basin & Range Watch @BasinRange]

The BLM's big plan to turn your public lands into a big solar shit show. Register here for virtual public meeting tomorrow. https://t.co/QqIvJvrRdp

[Basin & Range Watch @BasinRange]

These photos say all. Photo one by Teresa Pierce of thousand year old desert ironwood trees killed in minutes for the Oberon Solar Project near Desert Center, CA. Second photo by BRW is the before. This does not save the planet. This is insanity masked as green.

[LM Cunningham @PaleoLaura]

I have never seen this #grassland type: upland Alkali sacaton (Sporobolus airoides) at Rhyolite Ridge Nevada. Perhaps unique minerals in rocks. These lands would be dug out for massive open-pit Lithium extraction. @bitterwaterblue is working to conserve Tiehm’s buckwheat here 👍

[Basin & Range Watch @BasinRange]

The Biden Adminstration has also recently opened up millions of other acres of public lands to oil and gas drilling. Their "decarbonization" statements are largely BS, but they do intend replace a lot of biodiversity with solar panels.

https://t.co/qBgKbrYWCN

[peri lee @desertbotany]

Queer femmes in botany come hang! #Botany2022

[peri lee @desertbotany]

See ya at #Botany2022! I'll be presenting a poster of the flora I'm writing for my masters thesis in the Silver Peaks of Nevada. As seen in this Dean Taylor map, Nevada is the biggest floristic blackhole in the west - documentation can help with conservation efforts. Come say hi!

[peri lee @desertbotany]

Met my dream girl this weekend, Canbya candida, the pygmy poppy!! This little one is endemic to southern California and fairly rare (4.2). How could you ever resist?

[Naomi Fraga @naomibot.bsky.social @naomibot]

Today #Teambuckwheat inches closer to gaining protection for #Eriogonum tiehmii! @USFWS proposed 910 acres of critical habitat, an essential step to protecting this species. HOORAY for Tiehm's buckwheat! 💚https://t.co/vGuP1CIp7Q