I’ll fill in some text here at the top specifically about bioregionalism once I have some more developed ideas of my own. For now, I mean it as a way to know the area I live in and more of its natural history.
I live near the Santa Teresa Hills in San Jose, California. That is where I primarily focus my attention and try to connect to. The plants and birds are often the most obvious biology of the area; I am interested in them and all of the other animals, natural history, and geology too. Reaching beyond my local hills, there is the rest of the Santa Clara Valley, to the west are the Santa Cruz Mountains and to the east is the Diablo Range. Extending beyond that to the west and south are the Pacific Coast and Monterey Bay, and the Salinas Valley. It would be an error to not mention the San Francisco Bay. Beyond to the east is the Central Valley. Well, there is the setting.
I’m sure I will sometimes reach beyond this area, I’ll just follow my curiosity where it will take me.
For the peoples here before us, the Ohlone specifically the Tamien people, and the two groups before them going back possibly as many as 6000 years ago. The Ohlone had over 50 villages throughout the region. After them, the Mission era Spanish, and finally the Americans, us.
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— Bird Report in Bioregion.
Spring Bird Mix
— Pacific Chorus Frogs in Bioregion.
Tadpoles in the canal.