#Save-The-Redwoods League

[rabbitcruiser]

The Save-The-Redwoods League was founded on March 11, 1918 by Boone and Crockett Club members Madison Grant, John C. Merriam, and Henry Fairfield Osborn.

[wachinyeya]

CA Redwoods to Be First National Park Co-Managed with a Native American Tribe That Used to Own it https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/ca-redwoods-to-be-the-first-national-park-co-managed-with-a-native-american-tribe-that-used-to-own-it/

questionable headline aside this is good news

The Yurok will be the first Tribal nation to co-manage land with the National Park Service under a historic memorandum of understanding signed on Tuesday by the tribe, Redwood national and state parks, and the non-profit Save the Redwoods League, according to news reports.

The Yurok tribe has seen a wave of successes in recent years, successfully campaigning for the removal of a series of dams on the Klamath River, where salmon once ran up to their territory, and with the signing of a new memorandum of understanding, the Yurok are set to reclaim more of what was theirs.

[reasonsforhope]

"The Yurok will be the first Tribal nation to co-manage land with the National Park Service under a historic memorandum of understanding signed on Tuesday [March 19, 2024] by the tribe, Redwood national and state parks, and the non-profit Save the Redwoods League, according to news reports.

The Yurok tribe has seen a wave of successes in recent years, successfully campaigning for the removal of a series of dams on the Klamath River, where salmon once ran up to their territory, and with the signing of a new memorandum of understanding, the Yurok are set to reclaim more of what was theirs.

Save the Redwoods League bought a property containing these remarkable trees in 2013, and began working with the tribe to restore it, planting 50,000 native plants in the process. The location was within lands the Yurok once owned but were taken during the Gold Rush period.

Centuries passed, and by the time it was purchased it had been used as a lumber operation for 50 years, and the nearby Prairie Creek where the Yurok once harvested salmon had been buried.

Currently located on the fringe of Redwoods National and State Parks which receive over 1 million visitors every year and is a UNESCO Natural Heritage Site, the property has been renamed ‘O Rew, a Yurok word for the area.

“Today we acknowledge and celebrate the opportunity to return Indigenous guardianship to ‘O Rew and reimagine how millions of visitors from around the world experience the redwoods,” said Sam Hodder, president and CEO of Save the Redwoods League.

Having restored Prarie Creek and filled it with chinook and coho salmon, red-legged frogs, northwestern salamanders, waterfowl, and other species, the tribe has said they will build a traditional village site to showcase their culture, including redwood-plank huts, a sweat house, and a museum to contain many of the tribal artifacts they’ve recovered from museum collections.

Believing the giant trees sacred, they only use fallen trees to build their lodges.

“As the original stewards of this land, we look forward to working together with the Redwood national and state parks to manage it,” said Rosie Clayburn, the tribe’s cultural resources director.

It will add an additional mile of trails to the park system, and connect them with popular redwood groves as well as new interactive exhibits.

“This is a first-of-its-kind arrangement, where Tribal land is co-stewarded with a national park as its gateway to millions of visitors. This action will deepen the relationship between Tribes and the National Park Service,” said Redwoods National Park Superintendent Steve Mietz, adding that it would “heal the land while healing the relationships among all the people who inhabit this magnificent forest.”"

-via Good News Network, March 25, 2024

[beemovieerotica]

California’s Yurok Tribe, which had 90% of its territory taken from it during the Gold Rush of the mid-1800s, will be getting a slice of its land back to serve as a new gateway to Redwood National and State Parks visited by 1 million people a year. The Yurok will be the first Native people to manage tribal land with the National Park Service under a historic memorandum of understanding signed Tuesday by the tribe, Redwood National and State Parks and the nonprofit Save the Redwoods League. The agreement “starts the process of changing the narrative about how, by whom and for whom we steward natural lands,” Sam Hodder, president and CEO of Save the Redwoods League, said in a statement.

[encyclopediacr]

It's Arbor Day! Today, we're all encouraged to plant trees, but if that option is unavailable to you, it's a good time to spend some time outside among your local trees (weather and circumstances permitting!) To commemorate the day, here's a selection of some trees and tree species of note in Exandria:

Arbor Exemplar, massive tree planed by Melora in the Barbed Fields of Xhorhas

Bramblewood tree, thorny hardwood tree found in the Bramblewood Forest in the Dividing Plains

Haggardoe tree, gnarled tree native to the Hellcatch Valley

Sun Tree, a tree of the sun planted in Whitestone

Tree of Names, sacred tree planted by the Gau Drashari in Avalir to protect Exandria from extraplanar threats

Tree of the sun, sacred trees created and planted by Pelor, usually found in his domain, the Fields of Elysium

Vermaloc tree, a purple-wood tree native to the Vermaloc Forest in Xhorhas

We also encourage you to support organizations working against logging and working toward reforestation, climate change action, and responsible land stewardship in the United States, such as the Save the Redwoods League, InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council, Coalition to Save Jackson State Forest (or one of its member organizations), Alaska Conservation Foundation, Alaska Wilderness League, or another organization of your preference local to your area or in your country.

[notwiselybuttoowell]

California’s Yurok Tribe, which had 90% of its territory taken from it during the gold rush of the mid-1800s, will be getting a slice of its land back to serve as a new gateway to Redwood national and state parks visited by 1 million people a year.

The Yurok will be the first Native people to manage tribal land with the National Park Service under a historic memorandum of understanding signed on Tuesday by the tribe, Redwood national and state parks and the non-profit Save the Redwoods League.

The agreement “starts the process of changing the narrative about how, by whom and for whom we steward natural lands”, Sam Hodder, president and CEO of Save the Redwoods League, said in a statement.

The return of the 125 acres (50 hectares) of land – named ’O Rew in the Yurok language – more than a century after it was stolen from California’s largest tribe is proof of the “sheer will and perseverance of the Yurok people”, said Rosie Clayburn, the tribe’s cultural resources director. “We kind of don’t give up.”

For the tribe, redwoods are considered living beings and traditionally only fallen trees have been used to build their homes and canoes.

“As the original stewards of this land, we look forward to working together with the Redwood national and state parks to manage it,” Clayburn said. “This is work that we’ve always done, and continued to fight for, but I feel like the rest of world is catching up right now and starting to see that Native people know how to manage this land the best.”

The property is at the heart of the tribe’s ancestral land and was taken in the 1800s to exploit its old-growth redwoods and other natural resources, the tribe said. Save the Redwoods League bought the property in 2013 and began working with the tribe and others to restore it.

Much of the property was paved over by a lumber operation that worked there for 50 years and also buried Prairie Creek, where salmon would swim upstream from the Pacific to spawn.

Plans for ’O Rew include a traditional Yurok village of redwood plank houses and a sweat house. There also will be a new visitor and cultural center displaying scores of sacred artefacts from deerskins to baskets that have been returned to the tribe from university and museum collections, Clayburn said.

It will add more than a mile (1.6km) of new trails, including a new segment of the California Coastal Trail, with interpretive exhibits. The trails will connect to many of the existing trails inside the parks, including to popular old-growth redwood groves.

The tribe had already been restoring salmon habitat for three years on the property, building a meandering stream channel, two connected ponds and about 20 acres (8 hectares) of floodplain while dismantling a defunct mill site. Crews also planted more than 50,000 native plants, including grass-like slough sedge, black cottonwood and coast redwood trees.

Salmon were once abundant in rivers and streams running through these redwood forests, But dams, logging, development and drought – due in part to the climate crisis – have destroyed the waterways and threatened many of these species. Last year, recreational and commercial king salmon fishing seasons were closed along much of the west coast due to near-record low numbers of the iconic fish returning to their spawning grounds.

The tribe will take ownership in 2026 of the land near the tiny northern California community of Orick in Humboldt county after restoration of a local tributary, Prairie Creek, is complete under the deal.

A growing Land Back movement has been returning Indigenous homelands to the descendants of those who lived there for millennia before European settlers arrived. That has seen Native American tribes taking a greater role in restoring rivers and lands to how they were before they were expropriated.

Last week, a 2.2-acre (0.9-hectare) parking lot was returned to the Ohlone people where they established the first human settlement beside San Francisco Bay 5,700 years ago. In 2022, more than 500 acres (200 hectares) of redwood forest on the Lost Coast were returned the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council, a group of 10 tribes.

The ’O Rew property represents just a tiny fraction of the more than 500,000 acres of the ancestral land of the Yurok, whose reservation straddles the lower 44 miles (70km) of the Klamath River. The Yurok tribe is also helping lead efforts in the largest dam removal project in US history along the California-Oregon border to restore the Klamath and boost the salmon population.

The Redwoods national park superintendent, Steve Mietz, praised the restoration of the area and its return to the tribe, saying it is “healing the land while healing the relationships among all the people who inhabit this magnificent forest”.

[eregyrn-falls]

Yurok tribal members lead a redwood canoe tour on the lower Klamath River on Tuesday, June 8, 2021, in Klamath, Calif. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard, File)

(I could have sworn I read this in a post on here, but I just cannot find it anywhere. So here it is... maybe again for some folks.)

California tribe that lost 90% of land during Gold Rush to get site to serve as gateway to redwoods

By Associated Press Laguna Beach

PUBLISHED 4:54 PM PT Mar. 19, 2024

Source.

California’s Yurok Tribe, which had 90% of its territory taken from it during the Gold Rush of the mid-1800s, will be getting a slice of its land back to serve as a new gateway to Redwood National and State Parks visited by 1 million people a year.

The tribe signed a memorandum of understanding Tuesday with California and the National Park Service for 125 acres in Humboldt County to be transferred to the Yurok in 2026 after the restoration of salmon habitat Officials say the tribe will be the first Native people to co-manage returned land with the National Park Service The arrangement with the Redwood National and State Parks and the nonprofit Save the Redwoods League is part of a growing Land Back movement It seeks to return Indigenous homelands to descendants of those who inhabited those areas long before European settlers arrived

The Yurok will be the first Native people to manage tribal land with the National Park Service under a historic memorandum of understanding signed Tuesday by the tribe, Redwood National and State Parks and the nonprofit Save the Redwoods League.

The agreement “starts the process of changing the narrative about how, by whom and for whom we steward natural lands,” Sam Hodder, president and CEO of Save the Redwoods League, said in a statement.

The tribe will take ownership in 2026 of 125 acres near the tiny Northern California community of Orick in Humboldt County after restoration of a local tributary, Prairie Creek, is complete under the deal. The site will introduce visitors to Yurok customs, culture and history, the tribe said.

The area is home to the world’s tallest treees — some reaching more than 350 feet. It’s about a mile from the Pacific coast and adjacent to the Redwood National and State Parks, which includes one national park and three California state parks totaling nearly 132,000 acres.

The return of the land — named ’O Rew in the Yurok Language — more than a century after it was stolen from California’s largest tribe is proof of the “sheer will and perseverance of the Yurok people,” said Rosie Clayburn, the tribe’s cultural resources director. “We kind of don’t give up.”

For the tribe, redwoods are considered living beings and traditionally only fallen trees have been used to build their homes and canoes.

More below the cut:

This drone photo taken Monday, Jan. 29, 2024, shows the site of a salmon restoration project at Prairie Creek, which runs from Redwood National and State Parks, Calif., and flows through land that will be returned to the Yurok Tribe. (AP Photo/Terry Chea, File)

“As the original stewards of this land, we look forward to working together with the Redwood National and State Parks to manage it,” Clayburn said. “This is work that we’ve always done, and continued to fight for, but I feel like the rest of world is catching up right now and starting to see that Native people know how to manage this land the best.”

The property is at the heart of the tribe’s ancestral land and was taken in the 1800s to exploit its old-growth redwoods and other natural resources, the tribe said. Save the Redwoods League bought the property in 2013 and began working with the tribe and others to restore it.

Much of the property was paved over by a lumber operation that worked there for 50 years and also buried Prairie Creek, where salmon would swim upstream from the Pacific to spawn.

A growing Land Back movement has been returning Indigenous homelands to the descendants of those who lived there for millennia before European settlers arrived. That has seen Native American tribes taking a greater role in restoring rivers and lands to how they were before they were expropriated.

Last week, a 2.2-acre parking lot was returned to the Ohlone people where they established the first human settlement beside San Francisco Bay 5,700 years ago. In 2022, more than 500 acres of redwood forest on the Lost Coast were returned to the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council, a group of 10 tribes.

The ’O Rew property represents just a tiny fraction of the more than 500,000 acres of the ancestral land of the Yurok, whose reservation straddles the lower 44 miles of the Klamath River. The Yurok tribe is also helping lead efforts in the largest dam removal project in U.S. history along the California-Oregon border to restore the Klamath and boost the salmon population.

Plans for ‘O Rew include a traditional Yurok village of redwood plank houses and a sweat house. There also will be a new visitor and cultural center displaying scores of sacred artefacts from deerskins to baskets that have been returned to the tribe from university and museum collections, Clayburn said.

The center, which will include information on the redwoods and forest restoration, also will serve as a hub for the tribe to carry out their traditions, she said.

It will add more than a mile of new trails, including a new segment of the California Coastal Trail, with interpretive exhibits. The trails will connect to many of the existing trails inside the parks, including to popular old-growth redwood groves.

This drone photo taken on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024, shows a salmon restoration project at Prairie Creek, which runs from Redwood National and State Parks, Calif., and flows through land that will be returned to the Yurok Tribe. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)

The tribe had already been restoring salmon habitat for three years on the property, building a meandering stream channel, two connected ponds and about 20 acres of floodplain while dismantling a defunct mill site. Crews also planted more than 50,000 native plants, including grass-like slough sedge, black cottonwood and coast redwood trees.

Salmon were once abundant in rivers and streams running through these redwood forests. But dams, logging, development and drought — due in part to climate change — have destroyed the waterways and threatened many of these species. Last year, recreational and commercial king salmon fishing seasons were closed along much of the West Coast due to near-record low numbers of the iconic fish returning to their spawning grounds.

Thousands of juvenile coho and chinook salmon and steelhead have already returned to Prairie Creek along with red-legged frogs, northwestern salamanders, waterfowl and other species.

Redwoods National Park Superintendent Steve Mietz praised the restoration of the area and its return to the tribe, saying it is “healing the land while healing the relationships among all the people who inhabit this magnificent forest.”

[mezzopieno-news]

LE TRIBÙ YUROK TORNANO A GESTIRE LE LORO TERRE ANCESTRALI

Lo Stato americano della California ha siglato un accordo che permette alla tribù nativa degli Yurok di riappropriarsi della terra di cui è originaria e in cui ha vissuto dal 14° secolo.

La tribù degli Yurok incominciò ad essere perseguitata e allontanata dalle proprie terre alla metà del 1800 in seguito alla corsa all’oro, subì poi una pesante epidemia che decimò la tribù del 75%, massacri e la privazione dei territori in cui viveva per concederle alle industrie di legname e al National Park Service. La terra, che a lungo è stata gestita dalla Save the Redwoods League, riguarda un’area situata nella parte settentrionale dello Stato americano, nei pressi di Orick, da sempre di grande importanza per la comunità di nativi americani che ha un forte legame con la natura e con gli elementi. Il nuovo patto concordato con il National Park Service e il California State Parks permetterà alla tribù di tornare a vivere liberamente nelle proprie zone di origine e di tornarne gestori e protettori.

Dopo diversi anni di sforzi la terra chiamata ‘O Rew avrà strutture dove la comunità nativa potrà vivere in modo tradizionale e luoghi dove potranno essere ricevuti i visitatori, un polo e nuovi itinerari culturali. La tribù indigena Yurok sarà la prima nel Paese a co-gestire un parco nazionale e a contribuire alla conservazione e alla valorizzazione della storia e della cultura tribale americana nel tempo.

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Fonte: Oregon Public Broadcasting; foto di Olena Olesik

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[jungle-angel]

Movie night with Rhett Abbott headcannons (Rhett Abbott x Reader)

Movie night as practically a must with you and Rhett. There’s no compromise unless something comes up. Friday nights and weekends are strictly reserved for movie night

As soon as he’s done in the field, showered and eaten dinner, the kids get their baths done and then it’s down to the basement 

And you’d better believe that the babies are excited for it. They’re grabbing their blankies, their stuffies and a pillow off their beds before they head down to the basement to set up their spots

Amy’s almost always the first one downstairs, she’ll take one of the rocking recliners and put the footrest up to turn it into a little bed

You and Rhett have one end of the big sectional and when Royal and Cecelia join most nights, they’ll take the other end. The rest of the kids usually sprawl out in weird places 

Some of the movies you’ve watched though are what make the night worth it

Your boys always love The Empire Strikes Back. Royal still had an old VHS copy that he, John Dutton, Thomas Rainwater and Mo all used to watch when they were at community college together. It still has the old masking tape label over it and it still works (lol)

Cecelia grew up with some of the old school live action Disney films. Johnny Tremain, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea and Darby O’Gill and The Little People were always her favorites

Royal’s top picks include all the old James Bond movies, but he also loves the black and white movies from the ‘30s like Dracula, Frankenstein and The Mummy. The Mel Brooks comedies are his biggest picks though. The first time you watched Young Frankenstein and Dracula: Dead and Loving It, you laughed your asses off for hours

Rhett is the biggest movie nerd you’ve ever met out of all the Abbotts

The Goonies, Indiana Jones, Legend, Lord of The Rings, Time Bandits, the original Star Wars movies, Harry Potter, you name it, he’s watched it

He has amazing memories of Indiana Jones which is why it’s his favorite. When he was little, Royal spoiled him for his fifth birthday and took him to an outdoor theater where Raiders of The Lost Ark was playing. They saved up for a year and a half and when Rhett turned six, he got to go to Disneyland with Royal’s parents and went on the Indiana Jones ride only to return to Wabang with the full getup (lol)

Your kids absolutely LOVE The Goonies. Every time they go out and ride their bikes with their friends, they pretend that they’re gonna go look for One-Eyed Willie’s treasure

You and Rhett had thought about letting the kids watch Excalibur at one point but when you realized how R rated it was you guys were like “yeah not a good idea” (lol)

Rhett felt so bad when Amy watched the second Toy Story movie for the first time. She bawled her eyes out when Jessie was telling her story (and also because Rhett had given her a Jessie doll for her birthday that year) and it took both you and Rhett to calm her down even though you two were close to tears yourselves

Your kids got really scared when they watched Bambi and the wildfire scene came on. They didn’t wanna go near a bonfire for a good couple of months (lol)

Hannah, your oldest daughter absolutely LOVES Sleeping Beauty and The Little Mermaid although when she started brushing her hair by herself, Rhett was a little exasperated because she tried to use a fork to comb her hair

Peter pan would always be Amy’s favorite though. Wes and Nora Redwood, your close family friends, even made her a little ragdoll set with all the characters

But no matter what age, no matter what point in your lives you’re at

You and Rhett keep movie night going

Because it’s when your best memories with each other came about

[ijemmaokafor]

Age: 39 Gender: woman Sexuality: pansexual Birthplace: Cincinnati, OH Location pre-outbreak: Cincinnati, OH Town job: council apprentice/community planner Previous job: public defender turned city planner Personality traits: genial, compassionate, unfailingly optimistic, nerdy, even-keeled, overactive

Biography: 

Before the outbreak, Ijemma was one of the brightest movers and shakers in Cincinnati. Growing up an only child, she'd envied her many cousins their siblings and begged her parents for a little sister. "Even a little brother wouldn't be so bad." But it wasn't meant to be. Ijemma would just have to make her own family.

All along the way, she expanded her circle. Dear friends from college that she'd donate a kidney to, if asked. Colleagues in the nonprofit sector that she'd go to hell and back for. The little league girl's basketball team she coached and took out for "the good pizza" after every game.

So when the virus hit and she was smack dab in a population center, she barely made it out alive. She was in City Hall when the screams started. Turned out the higher-ups had known of the threat, but councilman Jenkins put out a gag order. The Queen City fell hard and fast.

She shamelessly rode the coattails of the man who straight up saved her life--a city hall janitor, of all people. Something about that particular fact felt like vindication. Maybe this new world would be a place that knew the value of the little guys. They made it to his family farm in Maysville, KY and they were all sweet enough to welcome her in.

But good things rarely last. An attack in the night overwhelmed the whole farmstead, so the family started east, certain they'd find answers in DC. Redwood was meant to be nothing more than a rest stop. But she saw its potential and decided to stay while the rest of the pack headed onward. All those great ideas she had working for a big city might finally come in handy building a small town.

Headcanons:

Film buff. These days, most movie nights are for the entertainment of the town's many kiddos. But she was the one who instituted it way back, and inaugurated it with an unhinged showing of Mulholland Drive. (Pickings were slim.)

Her grandfather was a tremendous presence in her life. She got along fine with her parents, but no one could compete with her Baba.

A fiend for potato chips. She's never been much of a cook, but since pre-packaged foods have started running low, she's perfected the process of making potato chips. Good, crispy potato chips. But she'll still burn toast.

[rabbitcruiser]

The Save-The-Redwoods League was founded on March 11, 1918 by Boone and Crockett Club members Madison Grant, John C. Merriam, and Henry  Fairfield Osborn.  

[alanblindowlwilson]

Please consider making a donation for Alan to Save the Redwoods League today for Giving Tuesday! 💚🦉🌲

[ineffable-gallimaufry]

anyways here's the list!

books on this list range from things i read from around 2013-2020 i think :3 anyways. not all of these are recommended but they are mostly nostalgic sooo.

also note that this is not a complete list cause my memory sucks. anyways check some of these out maybe if you want to know a thing i like/liked

- holes

- the giver

- hatchet

- the kane chronicles*

- stargirl*

- the phantom tollbooth

- smile*

- drama

- ghosts

- little house in the big woods*

- the fog diver*

- unusual chickens for the exceptional poultry farmer

- the inquisitors tale

- maybe a fox

- all's faire in middle school

- baby sitters club (graphic novels)*

- 5 worlds*

- the pals in peril*

- the witch boy*

- the one and only ivan

- the mysterious benedict society*

- circus mirandus

- iron hearted violet

- the witch's boy

- the girl who drank the moon

- the mostly true story of jack

- the invention of hugo cabret

- savvy*

- echo

- down down down

- zita the space girl*

- the neptune project

- upsidedown magic*

- the girl who circumnavigated fairyland in a ship of her own making*

- flora and ulysses

- cleopatra in space*

- the heros guide to saving your kingdom*

- the ghosts of tupelo landing †

- roller girl

- space case

- a handful of stars

- nightmares!*

- hamster princess*

- the great shelby holmes†

- friday barnes*

- the key to extraordinary

- the last kids on earth*

- the bicycle spy

- me and marvin gardens†

- the miscalculations of lightning girl†

- the cardboard kingdom

- shadow weaver†

- gallagher girls*

- nimona

- from the mixed up files of mrs basil e frankwiler

- tiffany aching*

- coraline

- my side of the mountain

- the war that saved my life

- hilo

- amulet

- bone*†

- mr lemoncello's library*

- misty of chincoteague

- serafina*

- the wolves in the walls

- cinnamon

- the day i swapped my dad for two goldfish

- fortunately the milk

- the incorrigible children of ashton place*

- judy moody*

- goddess girls*

- dragonbreath*

- babymouse*

- a snicker of magic

- york: the shadow cipher*

- the lost treasure of tuckernuck

- the twenty one balloons

- the secrets of eastcliff by the sea

- the ordinary princess

- the tale of emily windsnap

- calpurnia tate

- the frog princess*†

- foxcraft†

- the number devil

- good omens (i read it in 6th first, i can count it)

- percy jackson*

- the heroes of olympus*

- magnus chase*

- awkward (svetlana chmakova)*

- theodosia and the serpents of chaos*

- the serpent's secret*

- starry river of the sky

- where the mountain meets the moon*

- the storm runner*

- revenge of the flower girls*†

- raymie nightengale

- the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy*

- jeronimo stilton*

- lumberjanes*

- the wizard of oz*

- ivy aberdeen's letter to the world

- the mighty heart of sunny st james

- thaw (elyse springer)†

- sidekick squad*

- the wrong side of magic

- the selection†

- the princess in black*

- the school for good and evil*

- the jumbies*

- animal farm

- pax

- the wild robot

- wishtree

- aru shah*

- sal and gabby break the universe*

- akata witch*

- the library of ever*

- the graveyard book

- the afterward

- bloom

- keeper of the lost cities*

- last night at the telegraph club

- a wolf for a spell

- beetle and the hollowbones

- komi can't communicate*

- scary stories for young foxes*

- martin mclean, middle school queen

- etiquette and espionage*†

- autoboyography†

- redwood and ponytail†

- the prince and the dressmaker

- the lost coast†

- geography club†

- spinning†

- every day†

- two boys kissing†

- the fire never goes out

- the very nearly honorable league of pirates*

- the gay teens guide to defeating a siren†

- loveless

- time bomb

* means there's a sequel/more books

† means i might not like it now/don't remember it SUPER well

[runemyth0]

Fire Red Z, Part 6: Marsh

Tragedy strikes on Fire Red Z! I’m starting to think the universe straight up doesn’t want me to have any psychic types on my team. How else do you explain this string of tragedies?

Let me back up and fill you in on what happened...

So, after cleaning Erika’s clock at the Celadon Gym, I decided to spend some time getting to know the city. Namely, I received Yarrow the Eevee as a gift (let’s be honest, p sure I stole him). We also stopped in at the Game Corner and scrounged up some coins to buy rescue Pine the Abra.

Naturally, getting two new pokemon means that it’s time to train! Pine evolved into Kadabra and I thought he was ready for the big leagues. So I decided to let Pine take on a Route 8 biker’s Grimer that was a couple levels above him.

He was one shot by its Sludge.

After depositing Pine in the dead box, we headed back to the game corner to investigate what the Rockets were up to. We barged into their secret base, took them all down, and faced off against their boss, Giovanni. Fun stuff.

Yarrow learned Bite and evolved into Jolteon! Now, Pokemon Tower would be a breeze. And it was, as Yarrow nipped all the ghosts we came across. Except Olive the Gastly, of course. We kicked out the Rockets, saved the old man, and helped a angry ghost rest.

So now it was time to get Olive up to par with the rest of the team by helping the ghost pokemon of the Tower to their eternal rest. Thanks to her high Sp. Atk, I decided to give my Psychic TM to Olive, which was used to great effect. Olive evolved into Haunter, then it was time to go use the POWER OF TECHNOLOGY!

With the POWER OF TECHNOLOGY! we transported Ginger and Olive across time and space to a place of leafs and greenery, then back. Along the way, they evolved into Golem and Gengar, respectively.

Before we headed back to Saffron City (our precious jewel! the goal of our journey so far!), I decided to let Olive and the rest of the team bulk up a bit more. So after catching Redwood the Snorlax on Route 16, we repeatedly challenged the bikers on the other side of the gate to battles.

With the team ready, we just had a couple more stops before the gym. First, the fighting dojo. We defeated them all, got Cashew the Hitmonlee, then headed off to Silph Co, which had been taken over by Team Rocket.

We battled up and down every floor, kicking Rocket butt all the way back to the floor and gaining some more levels in the process. We also faced Green, but Yarrow, Willow, Olive, and Ginger took quick care of his team. The Silph Co. employee nearby gave me a Lapras I named Waterlily.

After that, it was a quick fight against Giovanni, again. The hardest member of his team was Kangaskhan, which took two Brick Breaks from Hemlock to deal with (it’s got a surprising amount of Def).

And with all that handled, it was time to go take care of why we came to Saffron City in the first place: the gym. Yarrow and Olive tore through the gym trainers as we made out way through the gym towards Sabrina. And then we stood before her, with Olive in the lead position at level 42.

In hindsight, I should have gone and ground some more...

Kadabra and Mr. Mime were quick and easy, going down in just one Shadow Punch. Alakazam, though... Shadow Punch took it down to just a sliver of red left. It responded with Psychic.

It was a critical hit.

Olive went from full to zero in one hit.

Yarrow cleaned it up with his Bite, but that hurt a lot. I raised that girl, I gave her buffs and made sure she received the best training. But I should have done more. One more grinding trip, maybe? Well, it’s not like I can take it back now.

Anyways, Ginger finished off Venomoth and Sabrina was defeated. Marsh Badge acquired.

But it rings hollow, especially when I think about how I’m going to face Koga and his poison types in Fuschia City. Ginger will be able to handle the Arboks and Muks, but the Koffing/Weezing... I’ve already had one close call with a Self Destructing Koffing, I really don’t want to put my team at risk.

Oh well, it doesn’t really matter. After all, ships in port are safe, but that’s not what ships are for. Part of being a trainer is taking risks. When this is all over, I’ll go back to Pokemon Tower and pay my respects again. I hope Olive is keeping the others safe from the Gastlys and Haunters.

Now we’re off to Route 16 and the cycling road, on our way down to Fuschia City, the Safari Zone, and my next gym badge! Next time, on Fire Red Z!

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