Environmentalism – Order of the Sacred Earth OC

Hawk Watch February 2022

On Saturday February 5, 2022 we went to the Ramona Grasslands for a Hawk Watch. The event is hosted annually in January and February by the Wildlife Research Institute. The event includes a very informative educational talk by biologists and allows people to see falcons and raptors up close.

Winter Bird Watching in SoCa

Notes from Richard Snyder’s 2020 Winter Solstice Celebration presentation. Did you ever wonder what “birds fly south for the winter” actually means?If you’ve been to a California beach you can identify a seagull – right? In the past year I’ve learned a lot about the class of animals known as Aves, or birds, and asContinue reading “Winter Bird Watching in SoCa”

Thinking like a Mountain

Aldo Leopold was influential in the development of modern environmental ethics and in the movement for wilderness conservation. His ethics of nature and wildlife preservation had a profound impact on the environmental movement, with his ecocentric or holistic ethics regarding land. From the Aldo Leopold Foundation site “Thinking like a mountain is a term coinedContinue reading “Thinking like a Mountain”