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baby trout

[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.

[bala5]

In the Shady Dell forest in Sinkyone Wilderness State Park, many of the ancient redwoods are shaped like candelabras. Whereas redwoods typically grow straight up, stressors caused these trees to sprout branches near the ground that droop like velvet ropes in a theater. Then when conditions improved, the branches grew straight up. The 2.3-mile Peter Douglas Trail, created in 2016, provides access to these amazing trees.

[formeroklahoman]

The Candelabra tree at Shady Dell in the Sinkyone Wilderness State Park North of Fort Bragg and Mendocino on the North Coast. The 957-acre dell is home to a mystical grove of the ancient candelabra-shaped redwoods.

Photo by Mike Shoys

[lowkeynando]

covered by the modern state of California, including the Achomawi and Atsugewi, [1] the Diegueños, [2] the Gallinoméro [3] the Juaneño,

[4] the Karok, [5] the Luiseño, [6] the Maidu, [7] the Miwok, [3] the Pomo[8] the Rumsen, [9] the Shasta, [10] the Sinkyone, [11] the Wappo, [12] the Yana [13] and the Yokuts. [9] In many of these stories he is a major sacred character with divine creative powers; in others he is a malevolent and often comical trickster. In some stories he combines both roles.

An example is a Maidu myth that says that at the beginning of time, a primal being called Earth Maker is floating on the infinite waters, when Coyote calls out to him. Together they sing to create the world. After it is completed, and Earth Maker has created the people, Coyote vows to spoil the world and introduce evil to it.

Earth Maker orders the people to destroy

Coyote, but despite their best efforts, Coyote uses supernatural trickery to outwit them. In the end, Earth Maker is forced to recognize that Coyote's power is equal to his own. [7] [14]

A common theme is of Coyote benefiting the human community by organizing the theft of fire, or of the sun, from the supernatural beings who have been keeping it for themselves; in these myths he is portrayed as a benefactor of the people. [8][5][15][11][14] In a Shasta myth, Coyote saves the world from ten evil moons which have afflicted it with everlasting winter. - [x] JUNGLEWOODNETHERRACKNETHERWARTENCHANTMENTTABLECHORUSFLOWERREDSTONEREPEATERREDSTONECOMPARATORTRiPWiREHOOKCOMMANDBLOCKSTiCKYPiSTONALiENSSPECiESFAiRiESDEiTiESGODSCLOWNSROBOTSANDROiDSARTiFiCiALiNTELLiGENCESBRAiNSPOWERSiNTELLiGENCEQUOTiENTSWORMSTAPEWORMSTUBESTUMORSCANCERSHOSTSENTiTiESFUNGiSPARASiTESBACTERiASAMiCROORGANiSMSMUSHROOMSSURGERiESSCiENCESPHYSiCSWiTCHCRAFTSMAGiCSVOODOOSHOODOOSWiZARDSWARLOCKSCULTSSECRETSOCiETiSALTEREGOSiNNERDEMONSCROSSROADDEMONSMEDiCALTREATMENTS CLONES

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Lost Coast Trail, California

Beautiful wildflowers and rain showers along the 1st half through King Range National Conservation Area (#1-4) followed by dense forests and coastal cliffs along the 2nd half through Sinkyone Wilderness State Park (#5-10)

[decaturwilsonjr]

[quotesfrommyreading]

Many lost their language, and language is really core to what we were doing in a cultural society. When grandfather passes on culture to grandson, there’s a lot of missing links to that passage, because grandfather was a product of a system that didn’t allow him to be who he was as a Native person inside. So as a protection measure, sometimes he had to say to grandson, ‘I’m not sure if we want to do this, but here are some songs, here’s some ceremony, this is what it looks like.

  —  Jaime Boggs (Eastern Pomo/Wailaki/Concow, traditional singer and dancer, tribal citizen and council member of Robinson Rancheria of Pomo Indians, and board member of the Sinkyone Council)

[kp777]

By Dani Anguiano and agencies

The Guardian

Jan. 25, 2022

From the article:

The descendants of Native American tribes on the northern California coast are reclaiming part of their ancestral homeland, including ancient redwoods that have stood since their forebears walked the land.

Save the Redwoods League, a non-profit conservation group, announced Tuesday that it is transferring more than 500 acres (202 hectares) on the Lost Coast to the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council.

The group of 10 tribes that have inhabited the area for thousands of years will be responsible for protecting the land dubbed Tc’ih-Léh-Dûñ, or “Fish Run Place” in the Sinkyone language.

Priscilla Hunter, the chair of the Sinkyone Council, said it is fitting they will be caretakers of the land where her people were removed or forced to flee before the forest was largely stripped for timber.

“It’s a real blessing,” said Hunter, of the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians. “It’s like a healing for our ancestors. I know our ancestors are happy. This was given to us to protect.”

The transfer marks a step in the growing Land Back movement to return Indigenous homelands to the descendants of those who lived there for millennia before European settlers arrived. In 2020, the Esselen tribe of northern California regained more than 1,000 acres of its ancestral homeland with a $4.5m deal involving the state and an Oregon conservation group. Such arrangements have become more common in recent years, allowing for the conservation of land and wildlife.

The league first worked with the Sinkyone council when it transferred a 164-acre (66-hectare) plot nearby to the group in 2012.

The league recently paid $37m for a scenic five-mile (eight-km) stretch of the rugged and forbidding Lost Coast from a lumber company to protect it from logging and eventually open it up to the public.

Read more.

[danaramosphoto]

I’d really like to make it back here someday.

Sinkyone Wilderness, CA

c. October 2015

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[ammg-old]

In California, 523 acres of redwood forest have been returned to a group of Native American tribes whose ancestors were forcibly removed from the land generations ago, per a statement from Save the Redwoods League.

The league, a nonprofit that works to protect and restore redwood forests, purchased the property back in 2020 and donated it to the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council, a consortium of ten federally recognized northern California tribal nations. In turn, the league was granted a conservation easement, which prohibits commercial timbering, fragmentation, development or public access, per the league’s project overview.

The land, formerly named Andersonia West, will again be called Tc’ih-Léh-Dûñ, which means "Fish Run Place” in the Sinkyone language.

"It's a gift — a real blessing to our tribes," Priscilla Hunter, chair of the Sinkyone Council and a tribal citizen of the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians, tells KQED’s Matthew Green. "Our relatives and our ancestors are happy and can be at peace, because this is where our ancestors were forced off their land and had to run away from either being killed or taken away. I believe that their spirits and our spirits are connected together today in a happy time."

The Sinkyone people lived on the land in California for thousands of years, traveling, hunting and fishing throughout their territory. But white settlers arrived in the 1800s and decimated the Sinkyone population through state-sanctioned murders, starvation, diseases and other atrocities, per the Tc’ih-Léh-Dûñ project overview. Survivors were exiled and some became members of federally recognized tribes.

Settlers extensively logged redwoods, which tribes consider as relatives and sacred beings, per the league. Now, from southern Oregon to central California, only five percent of the original old-growth forest remains, reports Laurel Sutherland for Mongabay.

Tc’ih-Léh-Dûñ is home to 200 acres of old-growth coast redwoods and federally threatened animals such as the northern spotted owl and the marbled murrelet.

Together, the council and league plan to “apply a blend of Indigenous place-based land guardianship principles, conservation science, climate adaptation and fire resiliency concepts and approaches to help ensure lasting protection and long-term healing for Tc’ih-Léh-Dûñ and its diverse flora and fauna,” per the statement.

“The protection of Tc’ih-Léh-Dûñ means everything because this is how we’ve survived. This is who we were and are,” says Jesse Gonzalez, a tribal citizen of Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians and alternate board member of the Sinkyone Council in a blog post. “Enough has been taken away. If we can do anything to help preserve the land, the wildlife, nature—we want to be a part of that. Because that’s us.”

This is the second property the league donated to the council. In 2012, 164 acres north of Tc’ih-Léh-Dûñ was returned to the Sinkyone Council.

"You have a lot of happy Indians up this way," Hunter tells KQED. "It's not often that you get land donated back to the Indians. You know, they're always taking it."

[thors-daughtersthoughts]

A California redwood forest has officially been returned to a group of Native tribes https://www.npr.org/2022/01/26/1075778055/california-redwood-forest-native-american-tribes

[entheognosis]

A tree in Yemen

Boabab tree in Madagascar   photo by @maguzman83

Bulbous red cedar

The Thinking Tree, an ancient olive tree in Puglia, Italy

The candelabra tree at Shady Dell in the Sinkyone Wilderness State Park

[bignaz8]

The candelabra tree at Shady Dell in the Sinkyone Wilderness State Park north of Fort Bragg and Mendocino on the North Coast. The 957-acre dell is home to a mystical grove of the ancient candelabra-shaped redwoods 📷 Mike Shoys taken from the Save the Redwoods League book "The Once and Future Forest: California's Iconic Redwoods"

[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

Save the Redwoods League focuses on the conservation of California redwoods, and where applicable will buy redwood land and restore their ownership to indigenous tribes to practice their traditional conservation and fire protection methods on the land.

(If you're confused, traditional fire protections in indigenous practices include setting small fast burning fires that will burn out the underbrush but go go out too quickly to actually burn any large trees, and has been proven to be the most effective method of preventing forest fires by limiting dry and dead carbon material for forest fires to catch onto.

I'm not an expert on these methods by any means, by I highly highly suggest listening to indigenous people talk about it. It's fucking cool as hell.)

-fae

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covered by the modern state of California, including the Achomawi and Atsugewi, [1] the Diegueños, [2] the Gallinoméro [3] the Juaneño,

[4] the Karok, [5] the Luiseño, [6] the Maidu, [7] the Miwok, [3] the Pomo[8] the Rumsen, [9] the Shasta, [10] the Sinkyone, [11] the Wappo, [12] the Yana [13] and the Yokuts. [9] In many of these stories he is a major sacred character with divine creative powers; in others he is a malevolent and often comical trickster. In some stories he combines both roles.

An example is a Maidu myth that says that at the beginning of time, a primal being called Earth Maker is floating on the infinite waters, when Coyote calls out to him. Together they sing to create the world. After it is completed, and Earth Maker has created the people, Coyote vows to spoil the world and introduce evil to it.

Earth Maker orders the people to destroy

Coyote, but despite their best efforts, Coyote uses supernatural trickery to outwit them. In the end, Earth Maker is forced to recognize that Coyote's power is equal to his own. [7] [14]

A common theme is of Coyote benefiting the human community by organizing the theft of fire, or of the sun, from the supernatural beings who have been keeping it for themselves; in these myths he is portrayed as a benefactor of the people. [8][5][15][11][14] In a Shasta myth, Coyote saves the world from ten evil moons which have afflicted it with everlasting winter. - [x] JUNGLEWOODNETHERRACKNETHERWARTENCHANTMENTTABLECHORUSFLOWERREDSTONEREPEATERREDSTONECOMPARATORTRiPWiREHOOKCOMMANDBLOCKSTiCKYPiSTONALiENSSPECiESFAiRiESDEiTiESGODSCLOWNSROBOTSANDROiDSARTiFiCiALiNTELLiGENCESBRAiNSPOWERSiNTELLiGENCEQUOTiENTSWORMSTAPEWORMSTUBESTUMORSCANCERSHOSTSENTiTiESFUNGiSPARASiTESBACTERiASAMiCROORGANiSMSMUSHROOMSSURGERiESSCiENCESPHYSiCSWiTCHCRAFTSMAGiCSVOODOOSHOODOOSWiZARDSWARLOCKSCULTSSECRETSOCiETiSALTEREGOSiNNERDEMONSCROSSROADDEMONSMEDiCALTREATMENTS AND