Swamp current aka, skunk current; a widespread wild current with landscape-values

wamp current is the prefered popular name on the Olympic Peninsula of maritime west-coast North America.  More-widely, it is typically called skunk current.  Ribes glandulosum.  But it grows especially well on slurpy-wet ground; usually on slopes, and maybe not ‘in’ swampiness, but conspicuously on elevated stumps & hummocks, in swamp-habitat.

Conservative

onservative attitudes, positions and behavior emphasize and prioritize stability and safety. If it’s not really broken, it’s not really urgent to fix it. Look before you leap. While changes may recommend themselves, there are always transient implemention costs, and not infrequently there are losses & losers, and even permanent drawbacks & downsides. Liberal is not …