There’s no routine screening for pancreatic cancer, most cases aren’t operable, and the five year survival rate after diagnosis is around 13%. It’s a traumatic news. But new personalized mRNA immunotherapy is showing encouraging results in Phase 1 clinical trials. Keep funding science!

“The research arm of the Forest Service is one of the unsung heroes in forest management around the world.” – Former U.S. Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck #SaveUSFS

Most prescient, clear/eyed work of writing I’ve read on reorg. Read it. Then act. “Call your senators. Call your representative. Not next week or later. Now. Tell them this is not a reorganization — it’s the destruction of a federal agency by executive fiat and that Congress must intervene.”

The Colorado GOP appears unable to turn off the background music on the live feed of the state assembly. Kevin Grantham is making his case for Treasurer to an instrumental version of Coldplay’s Fix You.

#BirdOfTheDay #ManMadePerch Bald Eagles - Colorado

A viewer named Debbie got the phrase “nut cuttin time down on the ranch” banned from my program. Debbie ruined it for everyone.

#BirdOfTheDay "BlackHeads Black-thraoted Sparrow - Arizona

#BirdOfTheDay #Warblers Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's) - Colorado

Public lands are the republic made real. Lose them and you lose it. That is democracy.

#BirdOfTheDay #WingsOpenNotFlying Double-crested Cormorants, Colorado

#BirdOfTheDay #WingsOpenNotFlying #Black&White A wet adult Bald Eagle, Colorado.

#BirdOfTheDay #SteppingOut Canada Goose, Colorado

#BirdOfTheDay #ShoutItOut Dicksissel, Larimer Co., Colorardo

#BirdOfTheDay #SideView Williamson's Sapsucker, El Paso Co., Colorado

#BirdOfTheDay alt #Finches House Finch. Colorado

#BirdOfTheDay #Blue Blue Jay, Colorado

#BirdOfTheDay #Borb Western Bluebird, Arizona

#BirdOfTheDay #PowerPose Canada Goose, Colorado.

#BirdOfTheDay #RuffledFeathers Lark Sparrow, Colorado

#BirdOfTheDay #Cute Black-tailed Gnatcatcher, Arizona

#BirdOfTheDay #OddCouples Sora, and a Killdeer photobomber. Colorado.

#BirdOfTheDay #StareDown Cooper's Hawk, Colorado

#BirdOfTheDay #Posting Osprey, Colorado

#BirdOfTheDay #BlackAndWhite Eastern Kingbird, Colorado

COMMENTARY: We should believe President Trump

#BirdOfTheDay #Reflections American Dipper, Colorado

#BirdOfTheDay #Ducks Mallard, Colorado

#BirdOfTheDay #BrownIsBeautiful Swainson's Thrush, Colorado

#BirdOfTheDay Two Teals, #Paddling Cinnamon Teal, Arizona and Blue-winged Teal, Colorado

White-breasted Nuthatch, caching a corn kernel. #SmallBirdSaturday

#BirdOfTheDay #TailsUp Greater Prairie Chicken, Yuma County, Colorado

#BirdOfTheDay #WinterLight A beautiful Harris's Sparrow, an occasional Winter resident along the Front Range of Colorado.

#BirdOfTheDay #TwoOfAKind Hungry Eastern Kingbird fledglings, Colorado

#BirdOfTheDay #PerferctPerch Northern Mockingbird, Colorado

#BirdOfTheDay #ShortBills Field Sparrow, Colorado. Local rarity that chose to winter behind our house last year.

#BirdOfTheDay #Raptor Red-Tailed Hawk, Colorado

#BirdOfTheDay #LongBeaks American White Pelican, Colorado

#BirdOfTheDay #LongBeaks

#BirdOfTheDay #Solitude Least Flycatcher, Colorado

#BirdOfTheDay #Nature Young Pied-billed Grebe, Colorado

#BirdOfTheDay #MoodyFaces Cheeky Rufous-crowned Sparrow, Arizona

#BirdOfTheDay #FeathersAndForm #Resting Canyon Towhee, Arizona

#BirdOfTheDay #ShortBeaks Our neighborhood Sharp-shinned Hawk.

#BirdOfTheDay #SpecklesandSpots Gila Woodpecker, Pima County, Arizona

#BirdOfTheDay #Snowy Song Sparrow, Colorado

#BirdOfTheDay #BranchingOut Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Colorado

#BirdOfTheDay #BirdButts Black-capped Chickadee. One of a pair, investigating a cavity. Colorado

#BirdOfTheDay #Serenity Lesser Yellowleg, Cache La Poudre River, Colorado