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  • Wednesday, September 23, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm – As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock Webinar

    Wednesday, September 23, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm – As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock Webinar

    Through treaty violations, struggles for food and water security and protection of sacred sites, Native people have resisted environmental injustice and land incursions for hundreds of years. Join Indigenous researcher and activist Dina Gilio-Whitaker online on September 23 at 6:30 pm to explore this history and discuss how modern environmentalists can look to Indigenous resistance for new approaches. Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) is the policy director and a senior research associate at the Center for World Indigenous Studies and teaches American Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos. She is the coauthor, with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, of All the Real Indians Died Off and 20 Other Myths About Native Americans. She lives in San Clemente, California.

    This Tower Hill Botanic Garden lecture and Q & A will be held virtually. The book is available for purchase through Tower Hill’s online Garden Shop. A link to the Zoom webinar will be sent after registration in the confirmation email. Author Talks will only be available live. They will not be recorded. $10 for Tower Hill members, $15 for nonmembers. Register at www.towerhillbg.org

  • Splatter Spotter

    The United States has 6.5 million kilometers of public roads that are used by approximately 255 million vehicles annually. Road corridors cover approximately 1% of the surface of the United States, but the ecological impacts extend well beyond these actual road surfaces. A minimum of 19% of the terrestrial United States is directly affected by roads, and 22% of the United States appears to be ecologically altered by our road network. Roads alter species interactions, animal behavior, soil characteristics, hydrology, and vegetative cover. The magnitude of these effects is correlated with proximity to the road surface, but extends throughout a “road effect zone”. The Splatter Spotter app developed by California State University for iPhones is designed to allow you to help scientists track where road kill is the most common, allowing us to better design roads and crossing structures to minimize the harm to animals and the hazards to drivers.  To download, visit www.roadkill.csuci.edu.

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