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Searching for Fire-bellied Toads #1

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Cotton growers furious as dam expansion dumped over wetland fears
By Lucy Thackray

Water users in part of the Murray-Darling Basin are anxious that a proposal to protect their interests during droughts has been abandoned, as the dry conditions continue to worsen.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-29/communities-want-water-transparency/106585380

#WaterResources #IrrigatedFarming #Floods #Droughts #Wetlands #AgriculturalCrops #Rivers #WaterSupply #LucyThackray

#BackyardHorticulture #Wetlands #SkunkCabbage
We have a nice wetland-ish area towards the back of our property. Every spring, this shoots up, within just a few days. I noticed a red tailed hawk fly up from the little stream that flows through this area. I'll guess it was hunting critters, but I haven't heard the spring peepers yet.

I'm all the gloom and chaos, I have to remind myself how unbelievably lucky I am to live in New England, in a still rural area. I get to come outside and breathe the air, even if it's faint with a skunky smell, and hear and see the birds.

Wikipedia:

Symplocarpus foetidus, commonly known as skunk cabbage or eastern skunk cabbage (also swamp cabbage, clumpfoot cabbage, or meadow cabbage, fetid pothos or polecat weed), is a low-growing plant that grows in wetlands and moist hill slopes of eastern North America. Bruised leaves present an odor reminiscent of skunk.