Katherine Ward
@katheward.bsky.social
•desert archaeologist, semi-retired •anthropology adjunct prof
•environment and climate•affordable sustainable•language and evolution •(paleo)ethnobotany•rainshadow farm🌿
•environment and climate•affordable sustainable•language and evolution •(paleo)ethnobotany•rainshadow farm🌿
That's good to know about PV. And I agree that an in-between state is going to be best. We can get good shade from that too.
November 27, 2025 at 6:42 AM
That's good to know about PV. And I agree that an in-between state is going to be best. We can get good shade from that too.
We need to prune them initially if we want them to take on a more shade tree kind of form. Left to their own devices all 3 types of trees tend to be shrubs. And that shrubby form can be very nice in landscaping too.
November 27, 2025 at 5:43 AM
We need to prune them initially if we want them to take on a more shade tree kind of form. Left to their own devices all 3 types of trees tend to be shrubs. And that shrubby form can be very nice in landscaping too.
People with more knowledge and skills than I have can absolutely make them grow beautifully into shade trees. Every time. Those of us who live in the desert climes should be promoting them in urban and home landscaping!
November 27, 2025 at 5:41 AM
People with more knowledge and skills than I have can absolutely make them grow beautifully into shade trees. Every time. Those of us who live in the desert climes should be promoting them in urban and home landscaping!
Absolutely they should be everywhere in the desert. The "somewhat" comes from my own experience growing desert willow and mesquite. I'm not an arborist or a professional landscape architect and I've had my own issues with pruning them into shade trees here in the SW Mojave.
November 27, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Absolutely they should be everywhere in the desert. The "somewhat" comes from my own experience growing desert willow and mesquite. I'm not an arborist or a professional landscape architect and I've had my own issues with pruning them into shade trees here in the SW Mojave.
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Did you really read this whole long thread? Wow! Go spread the word: DOGE isn't actually over.
The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.
DOGE no longer has ‘centralized leadership’ under White House tech team, personnel head says
The team that was altered to house DOGE — formerly the U.S. Digital Service — is also still doing its own technology work across agencies.
www.nextgov.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Did you really read this whole long thread? Wow! Go spread the word: DOGE isn't actually over.
This is true. We need to think about putting in plantings of desert adapted trees in places like Phoenix. Desert willow, mesquite, palo verde. These 3 can be pruned (somewhat) into shade tree configuration.
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
This is true. We need to think about putting in plantings of desert adapted trees in places like Phoenix. Desert willow, mesquite, palo verde. These 3 can be pruned (somewhat) into shade tree configuration.
Or they don't care until they do. Like when it suits them. But I guess that's the same thing, really.
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Or they don't care until they do. Like when it suits them. But I guess that's the same thing, really.