Sorrow at the suffering from suffocation, at Lake Merritt, and throughout the SF Bay:Caroline re-hosts Damon Tighe (via Mitch Jesserich) on the catastrophic die-off of most life in Lake Merritt, diagnosis. Tis 80 miles of death, yet what can we do, even in micro way to save some life: a Citizen call to aerate the Lake, and heed the call of this calamity, that connects us to all disasters occasioned by human ignorance and ill manners. Informed Ingenuity with Reverent Manners…Damon is a naturalist with a 20 year history observing the organisms, and fungi! of Lake Merritt.https://www.inaturalist.org/people/damontighe (where Citizens can also up-load observations.)“The Lake Merritt Die Off” Interview by Mitch Jeserich of Damon Tighe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrDlzEbdEBE
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/damontighe
Tonight is Biden’s primetime Soul of the Nation address…
Good for us all to address the Soul of the Nation….
that we be good planetary citizens, informed and dedicated to collective well-being…
Many are informed about the catastrophic die off at Lake Merritt and throughout the SF Bay …
Because they have seen the horror
and
Via Mitch Jesserich’s hosting of Damon Tighe,
and today, again!
briefly – how we got here…
Uranus Voyager 2 NASA/JPL-Caltech
Uranus stationing – means change of plans:
Sunday August 21st birthday dinner with nephew, who later tested positive for covid….
a little frisson, cause I have been so effectively boundaried…(nephew a very unboundaried being on all levels…)
So I upped my protocol, Vit D, C etc…
Packing to depart for astro conference Wednesday, exact Uranus stationing conjoin my IC
No….very ill….
Not happening…
Flattened, by giant achey, head-ache etc…
(But no obvious covid symptoms, and it blew through fast, leaving only tired ness, and big specific appetites and cravings… Mexican Coke…)
Then Positive Covid home test yesterday… over a week into the adventure,
jaunty, but way tired,
so was going to do a wondrous solutions radio show re-play.
Judith Schwartz, The Reindeer Chronicles….
However
when I spoke with
Damon Tighe, wondering if we could punt to next week…
He was so great and necessary for now –
that we do the show live!
Change plans according to augury….!
I roused myself from viral languor… on behalf of the lives in Lake Merritt that may yet be saved…and long-term solutions that be crucial…
Let’s aerate Lake Merritt…..
a community call to aerate the Lake
(can’t resolve the whole 80 mile horror,
but…)
Loren Eisley…
“Once, on ancient Earth, there was a human boy walking along a beach. There had just been a storm, and starfish had been scattered along the sands. The boy knew the fish would die, so he began to fling the fish to the sea. But every time he threw a starfish, another would wash ashore. “An old Earth man happened along and saw what the child was doing. He called out, ‘Boy, what are you doing?’ ” ‘Saving the starfish!’ replied the boy. ” ‘But your attempts are useless, child! Every time you save one, another one returns, often the same one! You can’t save them all, so why bother trying? Why does it matter, anyway?’ called the old man. “The boy thought about this for a while, a starfish in his hand; he answered, “Well, it matters to this one.” And then he flung the starfish into the welcoming sea.” ― Loren Eiseley, The Star Thrower
and neighbor Missy Cochrane, and the aroused neighborhood, years ago, transporting gasping fish from the canal to the River…
and just seeing their almost last breaths, then tossing them into the River, and all the color and vitality pours back into them…
Couldn’t save everyone, but as many as possible…
Granny Weatherwax! “Million to one chances crop up nine times out of ten!”
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with Mitch, Damon said:
“more dead fish than grains of sand…”
every type, gobis, striped bass, flounder, halibut, crabs, mussels
things I don’t usually see in a lake, seeing for the first time – dead –
bat rays….”
“Never seen like this… Gulf of Mexico, yes…
but here Lake Merritt has only been getting better…
water quality has been going up, diversity going up,
amazed by what we as humans can do
to repair a habitat… and then to have it all come crashing down within a few days is heart-breaking..”
“Salmon had returned to the lake,
Seals, freshwater otter…
all signs headed in right direction…”
same abundant diversity, like Oakland humans…dual image of the City…
Because oxygen depletion happens most at night , the biggest die-offs are before sunrise…
(People’s Park Show…
Communities must have their Parks, humans and Flora Fauna Fungi community…)
Oakland Citizen, denizen of Lake Merrit, Jett,
will be guest- hosting Damon Friday, tomorrow night,
chat available, no account necessary
10pm PT
call-ins possible..
related writings…
Mitch Jesserich:
“Usually I marvel at the amount of life in Lake Merritt. But today I was deeply saddened by the mass death event happening in the lake. All along the shore there are just thousands and thousands of dead fish. There are many large dead rays, sharks, and crabs among them. There are dozens of smaller younger rays, like this one, that are still swimming around. But I don’t know for how much longer. You can see this one actually swimming over dead fish.”
“The red algae bloom in the San Francisco Bay killing hundreds, if not thousands, of fish since last week likely won’t end for at least a couple weeks, as the warm weather gets hotter going into Labor Day weekend, according to experts.”
Maybe:
“Environmental agencies held a press conference Monday afternoon saying the bloom – which has been reported from the Dumbarton Bridge to Oakland’s Lake Merritt and the Alameda Estuary, Oyster Point, Baywinds Park in Foster City, Hayward, Keller Beach, Point Molate, and Sausalito – may come from a harmful species called Heterosigma akashiwo.
It’s a swimming marine algae that forms toxic surface aggregations. The species name is derived from “red tide” in Japanese.
“We do not know how long it’s going to last,” said Eileen White, the executive officer for San Francisco Bay Regional Water Board. “We’re still studying it and monitoring it on a regular basis. Unfortunately, we have not seen an algae bloom of this particular species of this magnitude in San Francisco Bay ever before, that we know of. “
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The enormity of now:
We gather, humbled,
that our rogue species cannot resolve the war being waged on life,
“by ourselves.”
Tis “by ourselves” that got us into these cruel conundrums.
“We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests or hissed in the uncouth guise of waddling amphibians. We have played such roles for infinitely longer ages than we have been men. Our identity is a dream. We are process, not reality, for reality is an illusion of the daylight — the light of our particular day.”
― Loren Eiseley
So Patreonistas,
twas a most worthy show, thank you customized virus- dance partner… (while knocking on wood, and hopping around…cause don’t want to be too certain about anything…)
And without needing to mention any astro guiding… but being astro-guided…
Tis humming the November 8th election chart, all life on the ballot…
So much in play….
Who brought what to these cataclysms…?
Here’s a great ally – John Todd living systems….
(I think he is no longer breathing – but his great work continues…)
Thinking of a Bioneers panel with
Citizen Naturalist, Damon Tighe
marine acoustician Michael Stocker, Oceanographer Dave Gallo,
Janine Benyus…
many forms of convening – who brought what…to this crisis to restore equilibrium….
Moon at the all powerful Halloween degree, of inviting in what’s needed…opposite stationing Uranus – Biomimicry!
as the sine qua non for our collective future…
Moon quintiles Pluto! resonating our necessary incentive to be intimate with the invisible…
Around everything is an invisible field in which life thrives… and the health of the visible depends on the health of the invisible…
Aroused Mars quintiles Neptune, to protect and cooperate with water and all her children….
Worthy show – do listen…
and
now
to tend to tired ness, and consult with the virus to see what it would like (Mexican coke!) (and hang-over diet…Truly the virus is customized…)
