National Love a Tree Day is here!

 

Well, the first thing I’m going to do is proclaim it to be National Tree Week! Because a single day just isn’t enough.

This post about one of the coolest days all year was going to come out this morning, but I’m up to my eyeballs in preparations for this week’s celebration. We leave in the morning for two days at Wekiva Springs State Park near Longwood, Florida. And we’ll be surrounded by some majestic and lovely trees like the ones you can see just above the header for this post.

I hope you put together a plan to enjoy this wonderful day, week, I mean! I’ve got mine, and I’m going to really enjoy carrying it out.

“Bulldog Ben” Basile

© 2021 Ben Lawrence Basile 

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Ghost Forests are haunting our Coasts

I'm willing to bet the farm that you've never heard the term "Ghost Forest". Until last week, I hadn't either.

Rising sea levels all along the Atlantic Sea Basin are wreaking havoc with many forests all up and down the East Coast. The dying forests succumbing to this process are being called Ghost Forests by scientists and environmentalists.

I found an article about this very-troubling phenomenon in my inbox last week. If you'd like to have a look, I'm happy to pass it along here. Although few Americans have heard the term, I have a strong -- and very uneasy -- sense that we're all going to be hearing more about it, and soon.

There are thousands of terrible consequences stemming from our many failures to care for the Earth. This issue is only one. The price we will -- and are -- paying for these failures is high indeed.

Sea levels are rising. And so is the cost for our ongoing failures and continued inaction.

"Bulldog Ben" Basile

© 2021 Ben Lawrence Basile