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AnneTheWriter

2/2🧵 The #MortonArboretum is located in #Lisle #Illinois, a far suburb of #Chicago. It was established in 1922 by Mr. Joy Morton, the founder of the #MortonSalt company. Morton's father was J. Sterling Morton, who founded #ArborDay in 1872.

The #Arboretum is comprised of over 1,700 acres of land. All of the trees and plants are carefully chosen and tended by expert staff.

With my heel spurs and arthritis, hiking is nearly impossible, so this was a lovely way to enjoy the woodlands and the many colors of the season.

mortonarb.org/about-arboretum/

Wide-shot image of a large light-brown grassy plain in the foreground, and a long thick line of trees in the distance, covering the horizon. Almost all of the trees have changed into their fall colors, so the trees are a variety of shades of brown, red, orange, yellow, and green.
Photo of a single-lane roadway heading into a wooded area. The image focuses on the trees and brush to the left of the road. Most of the trees here are tall and have thin trunks, with ample leaves of autumn yellow and orange-brown. Some plants are still green. Some of the trees are bent over the one-lane asphalt roadway, casting their shadows along the path.
Photo of a wooded area. The foreground is full of brown, yellow, and a few orange leaves covering the ground in a thick layer. Tall, thin trees fill the background, with a little of the blue sky and some bright sunshine breaking through their fall-colored leaves and high branches.
Photo of a wooded area. To the left is a thick base of a tree. In the foreground, the ground is covered with a thick layer of leaves in a variety of autumn colors, all shades of yellow and brown. Some green plants are still visible among the leaves. In the distance, a large number of thin tall trees stretch up to fill the beautiful blue sky behind them. A little less than half of the leaves on these trees are still green, the rest are like the ones on the ground.
#Autumn#Fall#AutumnLeaves
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AnneTheWriter

1/2🧵 This past Friday afternoon was spent driving through one of several long routes in the #MortonArboretum in #Lisle, #Illinois. The fall colors and scenic tree varieties along the nine-mile route were beautiful, and my camera phone could not do them justice.

The two-head #sculpture is "Of The Earth" by artist #OlgaZiemska. The heads were "created from reclaimed and pruned tree branches and other natural materials gathered from various locations throughout the Arboretum’s 1,700 acres.“
mortonarb.org/explore/activiti

Photo of a sculpture in the middle of a mowed grassy field, surrounded by woodlands in autumn colors. The sculpture is two face profiles facing one another, with the middle of each head cut out in an eyeball shape and a silver globe hung inside each eye shape... so that the two heads also look like eyes. The sculpture is "Of The Earth" by artist Olga Ziemska. It is located in Lisle, Illinois, a far suburb of Chicago. https://mortonarb.org/explore/activities/exhibitions/of-the-earth/
Photo of short tree brush and other plants along an asphalt roadside. Some are still green, but others are in vivid fall colors of red, orange, and yellow. At least some of the plants are called "Sumac."
Close-up photo of an oak leaf that has turned red for the season.
Photo of some wild plants in fall colors. The focal point of the image is a small oak tree whose leaves have turned red for the season. Also in the image are tall wild grasses, plus a few tall prominent trees, and others in the distance whose leaves have turned yellow and light brown.
#Autumn#Fall#AutumnLeaves
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beSpacific

Older #trees are able to accelerate their rates of absorbing planet-warming emissions, scientists at University of Birmingham found. A forest of mature #oaktrees was exposed to elevated levels of #carbondioxide for seven years and in response, the trees increased their production of #wood - locking in the #greenhousegas and preventing it from #warming the planet. It is estimated that globally a football field of primary #forest is lost every six seconds. #climatecrisis bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1d7p0

BBC NewsMature trees offer hope in world of rising emissions Mature trees are able to increase their storage of greenhouse gases as levels rise, researchers find.
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DoomsdaysCW

If #OakFlat were a #Christian sacred site, we know how certain #SCOTUS judges would vote.

Solidarity with #ApacheStronghold all the way to the #USSupremeCourt

After several legal hurdles, the Apache Stronghold will file an appeal to the United States Supreme Court in a final effort to protect the sacred land of Oak Flat

By #CPT #TurtleIsland Solidarity Network
May 20, 2024

"For nearly a decade, Apache Stronghold has been fighting in federal court to preserve the heart of their spiritual practices: Chi’chil Biłdagoteel (Oak Flat). The equivalent of Notre Dame or the Temple on the Mount, Oak Flat is a sacred site threatened with destruction by the bottomless hunger of #capitalism in the guise of #ResolutionCopper, which promises to turn the vaulted arches of #oak and #juniper into a two-mile sinkhole.

"On 14 May 2024, Apache Stronghold’s tireless march for justice via the legal system turned on to the final approach, when the United States 9th Circuit Court of Appeals declined to re-hear the en banc arguments before the entire bench of 29 judges. The next and final stage will be filing an appeal before the United States Supreme Court later this summer.

"CPT stands with Apache Stronghold and the next leg in this quest to make the United States recognize the truth: that Oak Flat is #SacredLand. As sacred land, Oak Flat is part of the delicate and resilient web of relationships between soil and stone, water and wind that make this biosphere a home for all our relations. For all our sakes, Oak Flat must be protected.

"Please continue your support for and solidarity with Apache Stronghold through prayer, and action including signing this petition [link below] and organizing groups to sign amicus briefs committing to support Oak Flat and all sacred sites.

"CPT has been accompanying Apache Stronghold since May 2023 in prayer and action to protect Oak Flat.

"Oak Flat is under threat from the mining corporation Resolution Copper (a wholly owned subsidiary of #RioTinto and #BHP). In 2014, legislation in the United States Congress laid out a plan for a land transfer to give the area to Resolution Copper. While the legislation requires an Environmental Impact Statement before the land transfer, it allows Resolution Copper to do whatever it wants and exempts them from environmental regulation.

Resolution Copper plans an underground mining technique (“block cave”) that would turn this sacred site into a two-mile wide 1,000-foot crater and destroy it. Even though the land transfer has not yet taken place, Resolution Copper has already begun '#dewatering' which removes the #groundwater from shafts they drilled into the earth from property they already own. This endangers #OakTrees and other plants that depend on groundwater to survive."

Source:
cpt.org/2024/05/20/solidarity-

Link to petition:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/i-

Community Peacemaker Teams · Solidarity with Apache Stronghold all the way to the Supreme CourtCommunity Peacemaker Teams builds partnerships to transform violence and oppression. Over 35 years of action for peace and justice.
#SaveOakFlat#WaterIsLife#CopperMining
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