In 2019, the LA Department of Water and Power (LADWP) began replacing nearly 100-year-old power line poles cutting through Topanga State Park, when the project was halted within days by conservationists outraged that federally endangered Braunton’s milkvetch plants had been trampled during the process. […]
Instead of fire-hardening the park, the city — which the state said had undertaken the work without proper permitting — ended up paying $2 million in fines and was ordered by the California Coastal Commission to reverse the whole project and replant the rare herb.
That work saved about 200 Braunton’s milkvetch plants — almost all of which have now likely been torched in the wildfires that consumed Topanga Canyon, along with nearly 24,000 acres (37 square miles) of some of LA’s most sought-after real estate.
I’m half tempted to sneak in there and grab any remaining plant, and transplant it in the Mediterranean Basin, Spain (which shares a very similar climate and soil content to Southern California) then insist that it was the origin, since Spain was settled before California. Therefore, the arrival of this type of milkvetch must have occurred by accident, and that Californians really need to stop with the cultural appropriation.
Better to label it an invasive species that should be eliminated because it’s competing with native plants.
Botanical appropriation.
Life’s a milkvetch, then you die.
Celebrating the Lord’s bounty.
The evolution of (geographically) Western society to the point of disincentivizing it’s own survival is a wonderful tale that grandparents will relate to their descendants for generations, while cooking over an open flame in a cave, and hiding from once-endangered species that prey upon pacifist vegetarians.
Milfoil, when it complains, is called “milkvetch” in Yiddish.
What’s so bad about John Malkovetch? He’s Hollywood royalty.
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1416/8662/products/being_john_malkovich_1999__quad_original_film_art_1200x.jpg?v=1562539088
Sorry, I think I misunderstood the assignment …
Fiery blast from 1962
The Bel Air fire of 1962.
Narrated by William Conrad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxnC1WW95XE
Climate change in 1962?
There really is no cure.
“This plant, like many chaparral species, is fire-adapted and requires wildfire or other disturbance to propagate. The beanlike seeds require scarification to break down their tough seed coats before they can germinate. The seeds persist for years in the soil until fire allows them to sprout, with populations of the plant springing up in an area that has been recently swept by wildfire.”
New conspiracy: ” they allowed the fire to spread to increase the amount of Astragalus brauntonii sprouting after the wildfire finished.”
Commiefornians, like the idiots who inhabit the former British Isles, are uniquely unequipped for self-rule. Despite their claims of “4th-largest economy”, Commiefornia leaving the U.S. would be preferable to them infecting the rest of the country with their idiocy.