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Arctic habitats are vast and amazing. New York City was beginning to have wonderful small spaces DIY Botany projects in 2001 and grow local food. Naturalists have discovered plants near extinction that have amazing newly discovered molecules.

Discussion of the importance of biodiversity systems from medicines derived to atmospheric protection for all life.

Debt swaps are needed to protect tropical forests in developing nations.

Why we have lizard hands and not coyote hands. The upper world of the eagle and the lower world connected by snakes.

Guilds!

Round houses and Sweat Lodges!

Clothing was made from many fibers made from wood, shrubs and grasses as well as animal hides for special occasions and the chief or worn in winter. Clothing included many accessories and also body paints.

Went back a read about canoes which I had missed. I read about the brotherhood of canoes who made and used the plank canoes to go to the Channel Islands and fish for Deep Sea fish like Tuna and Sardines that migrated through the channel between the Islands and the mainland. Also read about the other canoes that could be built quickly and one that was an older type when they had large trees still.

Read how the Chumash fished with weirs nets, hooks and tridents and loved to roast fish over the fire. Also read how their collected Live Oak acorns pounded them into flour, leached out the tannins with hot water through baskets of the flour, then cooked them as porridge or sometimes cooked them as cakes over a steatite comal. They also ate mushrooms, seaweed and aphid honey as a sweetener.

This chapter describes how every other major fishery and many birds are affected by the loss of the Menhaden, with Striped Bass starving and wasting, crabs being eaten by rockfish because there are no menhaden, shad and herring being eaten by Bluefish for the same reason and mussels suffering because of algae blooms caused in parts by the lack of menhaden consuming plankton. Many other things lost by algae blooms.

Just read how U.S. Corporate Welfare helped to fund companies including oil companies and a company created by George H. W. Bush to consolidate and destroy most of the Menhaden in the Chesapeake Bay, along the Atlantic and in the Gulf of Mexico.

Re-read the last chapter. It is amazing that arguments debunked in the 1890’s about menhaden, which have lived in great numbers for millions of years and are now reduced be 90%, are still used to distract from the effects of industrial fishing.

Read another good chapter. An Iranian woman’s story includes life under the Shah, the brief fledgling democracy and the fall of democracy in Iran.

Her story moves to Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. She graduates, starts grad school and then works as an engineer for the Canadian Government then for a contractor to the government. She then continues school and gets her PhD…

Read about Cindy Blackstock. She had an indigenous father but grew up just off the reservation. She gathered pinecones to get income as a child to save for college at UBC.

She worked as a Social Worker after college and worked with indigenous children. She got her masters in jurisprudence in Child Law and fought for equal Services for indigenous people. She is now a professor at McGill.

Read and interesting part. Sharks were created as the villains as early as the 1880’s to make the over fishing and bycatch seem like a good thing. Was this the reason for the movie Jaws?