#Prairie Grove

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Prairie Grove, Arkansas November 2008

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Shoutout to my dad for keeping me updated on all the drama from my mom's Little House on the Prairie rewatch

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A quick break from Dave the Diver month.

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"The Yurok will be the first Tribal nation to co-manage land with the National Park Service under a historic memorandum of understanding signed on Tuesday [March 19, 2024] by the tribe, Redwood national and state parks, and the non-profit Save the Redwoods League, according to news reports.

The Yurok tribe has seen a wave of successes in recent years, successfully campaigning for the removal of a series of dams on the Klamath River, where salmon once ran up to their territory, and with the signing of a new memorandum of understanding, the Yurok are set to reclaim more of what was theirs.

Save the Redwoods League bought a property containing these remarkable trees in 2013, and began working with the tribe to restore it, planting 50,000 native plants in the process. The location was within lands the Yurok once owned but were taken during the Gold Rush period.

Centuries passed, and by the time it was purchased it had been used as a lumber operation for 50 years, and the nearby Prairie Creek where the Yurok once harvested salmon had been buried.

Currently located on the fringe of Redwoods National and State Parks which receive over 1 million visitors every year and is a UNESCO Natural Heritage Site, the property has been renamed ‘O Rew, a Yurok word for the area.

“Today we acknowledge and celebrate the opportunity to return Indigenous guardianship to ‘O Rew and reimagine how millions of visitors from around the world experience the redwoods,” said Sam Hodder, president and CEO of Save the Redwoods League.

Having restored Prarie Creek and filled it with chinook and coho salmon, red-legged frogs, northwestern salamanders, waterfowl, and other species, the tribe has said they will build a traditional village site to showcase their culture, including redwood-plank huts, a sweat house, and a museum to contain many of the tribal artifacts they’ve recovered from museum collections.

Believing the giant trees sacred, they only use fallen trees to build their lodges.

“As the original stewards of this land, we look forward to working together with the Redwood national and state parks to manage it,” said Rosie Clayburn, the tribe’s cultural resources director.

It will add an additional mile of trails to the park system, and connect them with popular redwood groves as well as new interactive exhibits.

“This is a first-of-its-kind arrangement, where Tribal land is co-stewarded with a national park as its gateway to millions of visitors. This action will deepen the relationship between Tribes and the National Park Service,” said Redwoods National Park Superintendent Steve Mietz, adding that it would “heal the land while healing the relationships among all the people who inhabit this magnificent forest.”"

-via Good News Network, March 25, 2024

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ARKANSAS:

A telephone booth in Prairie Grove has become the first structure of its kind to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

source: Presley Dispatch

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Little House on the Prairie | S3.E5 The Monster of Walnut Grove | 1976 directed by William F. Claxton, director of Night of the Lepus | 1972

[rebeccathenaturalist]

I am still decompressing from four days of driving, but I am intensely pleased that I got to spend a few hours walking the full six-mile loop at Konza Prairie Biological Station in the Flint Hills of eastern Kansas. I've been to plenty of old-growth forests, but this was my first time getting to explore an old-growth tallgrass prairie, and the oak groves that often form in low-lying areas. It was saved from being plowed under by all the dolomite stone just under the soil which made agriculture too difficult, other than cattle grazing. After driving for hours through cornfields and pastures full of non-native pasture grasses, it was such a relief to be able to immerse myself in a place that looks much like this entire landscape did for thousands of years. I know they're still doing restoration work there, since fire suppression has caused some imbalances, and of course the extermination of bison, but it's one of the best examples of North American tallgrass prairie still available today.

I have a lot more thoughts ruminating about this experience, but for now, enjoy a few pictures.

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Funks Grove McLean County, IL

Love in the Prairie State

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BOTD: Orchard Oriole

Photo: Ad Konings

"Most common in the Midwest and South is this small oriole. It favors open areas with scattered groves of trees, so human activities may have helped it in some areas, opening up the eastern woodlands and planting groves of trees on the prairies. Orchard Orioles often gather in flocks during migration. The black-throated young male, sitting alone in a treetop and singing his jumbled song, is often confusing to beginning birders."

- Audubon Field Guide

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California’s Yurok Tribe, which had 90% of its territory taken from it during the gold rush of the mid-1800s, will be getting a slice of its land back to serve as a new gateway to Redwood national and state parks visited by 1 million people a year.

The Yurok will be the first Native people to manage tribal land with the National Park Service under a historic memorandum of understanding signed on Tuesday by the tribe, Redwood national and state parks and the non-profit Save the Redwoods League.

The agreement “starts the process of changing the narrative about how, by whom and for whom we steward natural lands”, Sam Hodder, president and CEO of Save the Redwoods League, said in a statement.

The return of the 125 acres (50 hectares) of land – named ’O Rew in the Yurok language – more than a century after it was stolen from California’s largest tribe is proof of the “sheer will and perseverance of the Yurok people”, said Rosie Clayburn, the tribe’s cultural resources director. “We kind of don’t give up.”

For the tribe, redwoods are considered living beings and traditionally only fallen trees have been used to build their homes and canoes.

“As the original stewards of this land, we look forward to working together with the Redwood national and state parks to manage it,” Clayburn said. “This is work that we’ve always done, and continued to fight for, but I feel like the rest of world is catching up right now and starting to see that Native people know how to manage this land the best.”

The property is at the heart of the tribe’s ancestral land and was taken in the 1800s to exploit its old-growth redwoods and other natural resources, the tribe said. Save the Redwoods League bought the property in 2013 and began working with the tribe and others to restore it.

Much of the property was paved over by a lumber operation that worked there for 50 years and also buried Prairie Creek, where salmon would swim upstream from the Pacific to spawn.

Plans for ’O Rew include a traditional Yurok village of redwood plank houses and a sweat house. There also will be a new visitor and cultural center displaying scores of sacred artefacts from deerskins to baskets that have been returned to the tribe from university and museum collections, Clayburn said.

It will add more than a mile (1.6km) of new trails, including a new segment of the California Coastal Trail, with interpretive exhibits. The trails will connect to many of the existing trails inside the parks, including to popular old-growth redwood groves.

The tribe had already been restoring salmon habitat for three years on the property, building a meandering stream channel, two connected ponds and about 20 acres (8 hectares) of floodplain while dismantling a defunct mill site. Crews also planted more than 50,000 native plants, including grass-like slough sedge, black cottonwood and coast redwood trees.

Salmon were once abundant in rivers and streams running through these redwood forests, But dams, logging, development and drought – due in part to the climate crisis – have destroyed the waterways and threatened many of these species. Last year, recreational and commercial king salmon fishing seasons were closed along much of the west coast due to near-record low numbers of the iconic fish returning to their spawning grounds.

The tribe will take ownership in 2026 of the land near the tiny northern California community of Orick in Humboldt county after restoration of a local tributary, Prairie Creek, is complete under the deal.

A growing Land Back movement has been returning Indigenous homelands to the descendants of those who lived there for millennia before European settlers arrived. That has seen Native American tribes taking a greater role in restoring rivers and lands to how they were before they were expropriated.

Last week, a 2.2-acre (0.9-hectare) parking lot was returned to the Ohlone people where they established the first human settlement beside San Francisco Bay 5,700 years ago. In 2022, more than 500 acres (200 hectares) of redwood forest on the Lost Coast were returned the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council, a group of 10 tribes.

The ’O Rew property represents just a tiny fraction of the more than 500,000 acres of the ancestral land of the Yurok, whose reservation straddles the lower 44 miles (70km) of the Klamath River. The Yurok tribe is also helping lead efforts in the largest dam removal project in US history along the California-Oregon border to restore the Klamath and boost the salmon population.

The Redwoods national park superintendent, Steve Mietz, praised the restoration of the area and its return to the tribe, saying it is “healing the land while healing the relationships among all the people who inhabit this magnificent forest”.

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Darrell Lucus at Loud, Liberal, Christian:

For the better part of this year, one of the biggest stories that wasn’t related to the presidential election was the downfall of one of America’s most prominent pastors, Robert Morris. In case you missed it, Morris, founding pastor of one of America’s most influential churches, Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas—a suburb of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex—fell fast and fell hard this past summer when he was exposed as a child predator. In 1984, when Morris was an up-and-coming youth evangelist, he began grooming and molesting then 12-year-old Cindy Clemishire at her home in Hominy, Oklahoma—an outer suburb of Tulsa. It proved to be the start of a long nightmare for Cindy. While the abuse only ended four years later, Morris’ efforts to cover up his depravity continued for another four decades. Through it all, he told anyone who would listen that he had merely had “moral failure” with ‘a young lady.” As this story went, he was cleared to return to ministry by his elders at Shady Grove Church, a charismatic megachurch in another Metroplex suburb, Grand Prairie. He kept up this line when he founded Gateway in 2000; Gateway absorbed Shady Grove in 2015.

Morris’ deceit finally caught up with him in June after Clemishire finally found someone willing to listen to her—Dee Parsons of Wartburg Watch. Morris tried to spin the same lies to the general public that he’d spun to those close to him for four decades When it became apparent that wasn’t going to fly, he resigned. Morris would have had us believe that he had merely sinned. But any right-thinking person knows that this wasn’t a sin. On the weekend before Election Day, Gateway formally acknowledged what any right-thinking person following this story has known—it was a crime. Gateway also revealed that Morris and those who helped cover up his deceit at Gateway are now the subjects of a very active criminal investigation. And now, this writer can exclusively report who is leading said investigation.

[...] We should want this investigation to take time. After all, we cannot afford to have a repeat of the Bill Cosby case. Even though it was clear beyond any doubt that he was a rapist, Cosby was allowed to walk free because prosecutors in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, were either too lazy or too blinded by headlines to do the actual work necessary to make sure his 2018 conviction stuck. Instead, they relied almost entirely on evidence gleaned from testimony in a civil suit—a Fifth Amendment violation that could not be countenanced, even though Cosby was manifestly guilty. Even without that to consider, Morris theoretically has the resources to fight a conviction, so it’s incumbent upon Drummond to ensure there’s enough evidence to ensure any appeal is a fool’s errand. I confess, I hope this doesn’t end the way Bakker’s trial ended. He would still be in prison today if a judge hadn’t gotten diarrhea of the mouth at sentencing. When I first found out that Morris was indeed the target of an investigation, I couldn’t help but think of a number of friends who haven’t set foot in a church building in ages because so many churches turn a blind eye to child sexual abuse. This investigation is as much for them as it is for Cindy and other victims of sexual abuse in the church. It is long past time that someone was not only willing to listen, but make the effort to see that justice is done.

Darrell Lucus has the scoop on scandal-ridden sexual abusing “pastor” Robert Morris facing a criminal investigation in Oklahoma.

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Perfumes as Biomes

arctic

Tom Ford Soleil Neige

bergamot, white flowers, benzoin

actually somehow does smell like sun on snow!

alpine

Tauer Perfumes L’Air des Alpes Suisses

ambergris, fir, pine, lavender, tonka

herbal earth and bright cool skies

beach

Heeley Sel Marin

salt, seawater, seaweed

sand, sun, salt

boreal forest

Caron Yatagan

pine, artemisia, castoreum

crisp north-woods conifers and muddy boots

bush

Zoologist Koala

eucalyptus, honey, musk

a glowing eucalyptus grove

chaparral

Oriza LeGrand Peau d’Espagne

leather, verbena, carnation

cowboys, sun, dusty herbs

deciduous forest

Guerlain Vetiver

vetiver, bergamot, tobacco, oakmoss

mossy forest floor

desert

Tauer Perfumes Attar AT

leather, labdanum, sandalwood

bone-dry Arabian sands

garrigue

Parfums d’Empire Corsica Furiosa

tomato leaf, grass, mastic

blazing sun and dusty scrub

jungle

Neela Vermeire Ashoka

fig, sandalwood, lotus, incense

shady juicy trees

Mediterranean coast

Hermes Un Jardin en Mediterranee

cypress, fig, bergamot, orange blossom

sun, citrus, gnarled trees, sea

prairie

Yohji Homme

juniper, licorice, sage

big sky country

temperate rainforest

Papillon Perfumes Spell 125

pine, olibanum, ambergris

foggy misty conifers

tropical rainforest

DS & Durga DS

frangipani, lotus, oud

bright blooms and wet earth

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Correspondances by Charles Baudelaire

Correspondences

Nature is a temple where living pillars Let sometimes emerge confused words; Man crosses it through forests of symbols Which watch him with intimate eyes.

Like those deep echoes that meet from afar In a dark and profound harmony, As vast as night and clarity, So perfumes, colors, tones answer each other.

There are perfumes fresh as children's flesh, Soft as oboes, green as meadows, And others, corrupted, rich, triumphant,

Possessing the diffusion of infinite things, Like amber, musk, incense and aromatic resin, Chanting the ecstasies of spirit and senses.

— Geoffrey Wagner, Selected Poems of Charles Baudelaire (NY: Grove Press, 1974)

Correspondances

La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliers Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles; L'homme y passe à travers des forêts de symboles Qui l'observent avec des regards familiers.

Comme de longs échos qui de loin se confondent Dans une ténébreuse et profonde unité, Vaste comme la nuit et comme la clarté, Les parfums, les couleurs et les sons se répondent.

II est des parfums frais comme des chairs d'enfants, Doux comme les hautbois, verts comme les prairies, — Et d'autres, corrompus, riches et triomphants,

Ayant l'expansion des choses infinies, Comme l'ambre, le musc, le benjoin et l'encens, Qui chantent les transports de l'esprit et des sens.

— Charles Baudelaire