Future-Proofing Conservation
October 21, 2021
In engineering circles, the concept of safety factors has been evolving for a couple millennia. A rock pyramid, whether in... Read More →
Managing a Firewood Woodlot
January 9, 2021
Heating your house with firewood is sometimes rated as carbon neutral because it is solar energy via photosynthesis, stored as... Read More →
Iowa City Tackles Climate Change
March 19, 2020
Iowa City staff and council have been alert to the City’s carbon emissions for a decade, conducting studies and evolving... Read More →
Modeling Climate Change is Successful
January 16, 2020
The argument sometimes made against models of climate change is “if they cannot predict tomorrow’s weather, how can we trust... Read More →
A Brief History of Mapping World Climate
January 9, 2020
Every passing year lately has had some record-breaking climatic extreme, and its consequences. At the moment this is in southeast... Read More →
Guest Post: Re: Climate (2019.12)
December 30, 2019
Being a member of the national Land Trust Alliance gives Bur Oak Land Trust many resources, connections, and ideas to... Read More →
Why Conserve Land: Climate Solutions
December 9, 2019
Bur Oak Land Trust is a member of the Land Trust Alliance, which has many resources to help develop, maintain,... Read More →
Guest Post: Land Use at the Center of Climate Change Discussions
October 21, 2019
Climate issues and resultant discussions about these issues continue to be an important topic, especially as it pertains to land... Read More →
The Storms of May
July 18, 2019
This May saw a lot of damage to trees. Those with a weak spot sometimes shattered. ... Read More →
Underwater Prairie
June 3, 2019
Our changing climate is already bringing us some pretty intense weather variability. The current iteration of that variability has been... Read More →
