Ross Reid, Nature Nerd

What kind of world do you want to live in?

Check out the latest podchat with Laura Griffith-Cochrane on your favourite podcasting platform, all available in my bio, to learn more about these awesome creatures and places just under the waves!

#podcast #marine #education #nature #funfacts

Thanks to Ross Reid
@nerdyaboutnature.bsky.social
for including my 2015 book about Forest Ecology, British Columbia's colonial history, and the Resonance of First Nation's Culture from past to present, in such good company. Check out these books and read.

www.nerdyaboutnature.com/books

Happy (?) Earth Day... Extra Special Earth Day Promos, and why you should probably boycott anyone running them.

Happy earth day, I guess 🤷‍♂️

Problems with the Fix Our Forests Act It's actually planning on totally f**king our forests 😳

The Fix Our Forest Act aims to totally f**k our forests.

Take action: oregonwild.org/safeguard-ou...

The Perils of Reductionist Thought & why thinking more wholistically is our way to a better future.

New think-piece now live on the Substack 🤙

open.substack.com/pub/nerdyabo...

Blows my mind the type of silly compassionless things people find to complain about on the internet these days 🙄

Mmm I mean, anything in ‘nature’ is bound to be wiggly in some capacity when we try to define things, especially when you’re close to it, but regardless things have been relatively stable for about 10k years which has served humanity very nicely!

YouTube video by Nerdy About Nature Plant Diversity in Japan

Plant Diversity in Japan is pretty dang incredible! But how did it come to be?

A mix of glaciation, geothermal activity, and lots of time!

#science #edu #evolution #nature

Funny to see the BC forestry industry so terrified of the US tariffs hurting business, when they could’ve just embraced the Paradigm Shift introduced by the NDP 4+ years ago and actually been more insulated and resilient to these global shifts…but instead chose to chase short term profits. Classic 😂

Absolutely incredible ideas in this one, one of my faves 🙌

Endless growth on a finite planet is probably the stupidest idea anyone has ever had 🙄

Why can’t people / companies just stay in their lane, stay small, and give back when they are successful instead of trying ti take over the whole dang world?!

Support local, wherever you are🤙

Support one another, despite our differences Taking lessons from one of the most inspiring and supportive trees you've ever seen.

A great lesson we could all take from these trees 🙏

Drove by a McDonalds earlier and got a craving for a McFlurry and fries…but then remembered that the closest the US has ever come to a class consciousness uprising was spoiled by a McDonalds employee who ratted on Luigi, ironically, for the reward money that they weren’t even paid.
I kept driving.

Can we please stop getting hung up on everyone’s shortcomings and just start doing better already…?

YouTube video by Nerdy About Nature Always faulting others instead of reflecting on ourselves 🙄 Can't just start doing better already?

Do you ever notice how much our societies have normalized complaining about others for their shortcomings as a way of avoiding or taking responsibility for our own?

#japan #hypocrisy #trash #plastic #cars #whalehunt #oldgrowthforest #logging #dobetter

YouTube video by Nerdy About Nature The Curious Case of how the Pacific Wax Myrtle came to be where it is today.

The Curious Case of how the Pacific Wax Myrtle came to be where it is today…just in case you needed another reminder that us humans are active parts of these ecosystems, not apart from them 🙌

#education #nature #funfacts #thinkdifferently #pnw

YouTube video by Nerdy About Nature Incredible Vegetative Regeneration in a Magnificent Maple

Maybe one of the coolest trees I've ever come across 😍

#nature #education #funfacts #inspiration

Is Outdoor Recreation a form of Resource Extraction? Reframing our relationship to enjoying the 'great outdoors'

A deep dive thought experiment into a sensitive subject in the hopes that we can all grow and push ourselves to do better.

Read the whole thing by subscribing to my substack today!

This follows up my last post nicely - renewables may be the future of energy, but O&G is just going to pivot and find a way to take advantage of our plastics addiction.

Is it too bad of a pun to say that they’ve got plastics on their mind…? Cuz it’s literally in all of our brains 😳

Despite the oil-loving rhetoric from trump and the conservatives, the future is renewable. It’s already here in many ways!

YouTube video by Nerdy About Nature Habitat for Megafauna in Coast Redwood Forests

Habitat formation for megafauna in the Coast Redwoods is pretty wild, and theres so much of it! Unfortunately, there's not much demand...because we've killed most of the megafauna 🫤

#forest #ecology #howstuffworks #bears #redwoods #america

YouTube video by Nerdy About Nature Coast Redwoods store HUGE amounts of Carbon - Some of the biggest stores of carbon on our planet!

More carbon stored in complex forests = good
Carbon released from clear cutting forests = bad

It's simple!

Across the Pond for a Shift in Perspective Reflections from a spontaneous trip to Japan

Trying to get in the habit of writing more in preparation for a bigger project I’m eyeing up this year; check out the substack to stay in the loop!

YouTube video by Nerdy About Nature Why Coast Redwoods Evolved to have Two Different Types of Leaves

Coast Redwoods have two distinct types of leaves - one optimized for gathering sunlight, and one optimized for collecting moisture...but why?

#redwoods #science #education #nature #evolution

YouTube video by Nerdy About Nature The Results of Ecological Forest Restoration in a Secondgrowth Forest

Let’s take a look at how ecological forest restoration can help create healthier lands and communities! 🙌🌲

#forest #restoration #ecology #nature #science #logging #education

From this point forward I will only ever refer to ‘Teslas’ as Naziwagons or Nazitrucks.

We need to boycott billionaires, especially the racist ones.

The urge to jump on and respond with 'hot takes' to the past 4 days of enviro and social regulation loss has been overwhelming...instead, I've been trying to take time to stay grounded, think through the visceral emotional reactions to the madness, and move forward constructively. Stay focused🙌

YouTube video by Nerdy About Nature How to pull invasive English Ivy

Found some invasive English Ivy in a local Coastal Oldgrowth Forest, so Pintxo & I took it upon ourselves to cut it out to keep the lands we live on healthier for longer!

YouTube video by Nerdy About Nature Reflecting on the Kyoto Protocol in Kyoto

If the world was in flames, and there was a group of hundreds of people scrambling to grab buckets of water to try and put out the fire, but there was one person standing by, kicking cigarette butts and gasoline into the fire, would you grab a can of gas or bucket of water?
#climate #usa #unfollow

Really kinda feels like the world’s falling apart these days huh? 😳