keri
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I love museums and history. ★ bed-tethered disabled! AuDHD, POTS, MCAS, and ME/CFS. ★🧑🦽★ I miss traveling and being in nature and sewing. #1 Lizzie W. Champney fan (2025) location: Jacksonville, Florida
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A mummifying lake
How an African lake transforms unlucky wildlife into petrified statues
NEEL V. PATEL • NOVEMBER 26, 2013
A calcified flamingo at Lake Natron, 2012. The lake's properties allow it to naturally "mummify" dead organisms. [Image credit: Nick Brandt]
Image is of a creepy af mummified bird](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xwg24vshr4rskn3hz5ztjzhq/bafkreiegwdroypqwg6adbcualpez4fwralcwgpmcmufi7miajmugvc55qu)
![Requests to deforest are common in heavily policed areas, where shade is perceived as a magnet for drug dealing and prostitution. In the early 2000s, the L.A. Police Department began installing security cameras in high-crime areas of the city, and it asked city crews to cut back trees that obscured sightlines. Eventually, street cops submitted so many requests that the overwhelmed forestry department started recommending tree removal in places where "regular maintenance" was not feasible.
Officially, the city has no policy about removing shade for surveillance purposes, but it happens: public housing courtyards, including Jordan Downs's, are bare of trees, and when a new pole camera goes up in a public park, the mature canopy around it vanishes. On private property, the approach is more informal. "It's not that the police have the authority to say, you can't plant trees here," explained Michael Pinto, a principal at NAC Architecture who specializes in community design-build projects. "It's that they have convinced community leaders that, if you want to save your community, you can't have too many trees, because it restricts [the police's] ability to do their jobs."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:njpuvpanzqfgynglwf62uogh/bafkreiawz4jjt2sypx63izkat234j43rhnicdobs4iohyxi7h6jyss7c3q)
