everyone who lives in the bluegrass region of kentucky PLS take detailed photos of clovers and asters and basically all the little plants that you see ESPECIALLY in areas that are open and meadow or prairie like DOUBLE ESPECIALLY in sinkholes or rocky areas without much soil and stony hilltops and areas that have been grazed by cows but not very heavily. This place was a very unique ecosystem and I just know there are super-rare endemic species still hanging out somewhere.
in 2013 we found the kentucky clover which is a rare clover only found in the bluegrass region of kentucky. i just Know there are more rare plants
I mean actually people everywhere should do this, because it is so stupidly easy to accidentally find something super rare. We have discovered new species in places like “the side of the road” or “the edge of a parking lot” because nobody thought it was worth looking there.
every place is unique and biodiverse and important, not just a rare untouched jungle on the other side of the world
And some very evil individuals make a lot of profit off the fact that people think the place they live is “already destroyed of biodiversity” and “boring” and only “used to be” valuable.
Corporations that want to cut down forests and destroy wetlands and obliterate prairies like it when nobody thinks their home is valuable enough to fight for. When everybody thinks the “untouched pristine wilderness” is all that matters, corporations can destroy all they want, because everywhere’s been touched.
I accidentally found a threatened species of milkweed just off a trail. I thought it couldn’t be and showed it to someone at the county Master Gardener’s. The Parks Department is so happy, they’ve gotten more funding for their wetland restoration project and more protection for the wetland.
I literally just took a picture of a neat little flower.
I literally
just took a picture of a
neat little flower.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.