Natural History – iCalNaturalist

The movement to protect Chuckwallas in California

Srihari Yamanoor June 14, 2024

Image Source: https://westernpriorities.org/2023/11/proposed-chuckwalla-national-monument-is-a-win-for-conservation-and-renewable-development/ I have to confess, in all my travels across California, especially the Joshua Tree National Park and its surrounding environs, I have never photographed a Chuckwalla. Having learned about these wonderful lizards, I am now yearning to see one, and of course, for personal satisfaction, photograph one. If you are a nature…

Conservation, Government, Locations, Native Californians, Natural History, Petitions

An arm and a leg for a piece of land – what it takes for Native Americans to win a slice of their land back

Srihari Yamanoor July 31, 2020

Yesterday brought some great news about the Esselen tribe, of whom I just learned through the same news, winning back a sliver of land that was once theirs, through the help of the Western Rivers Conservancy (WRC). You can read all about it in the CNN article linked below. I am glad that WRC got…

Fundraising, Government, Locations, Native Californians, Natural History

An anecdote about this pod of Brown Pelicans

Srihari Yamanoor December 25, 2019

The Year End always tend to be slow, and a time of jittery activity on my part, trying to catch up on photography and travel. This was a particularly windy and rainy day, when I ended up in Carmel. I went to the rather famous beach there and found a rather sizable pod of Brown…

Natural History