Roy's Redwoods Rock: The rockwork is expanding Muir Woods is where the Valley's landing We'll look like a Sierra National Park If only my son's change project can keep it dark

When Google's AI search tells you that Excelsior Mountain is the second-highest peak in the Sierra Nevada (it is really 8th highest just in Yosemite, which doesn't even have any of the 14 or so peaks over 14,000 feet), you know AI technology is fundamentally flawed and needs bigger-print disclaimers

Opinion: California salmon runs in danger of extinction if Newsom fails to act www.mercurynews.com/2025/09/23/o...

Science inspires us to realize that everything is connected. But a step too far in that direction leads to questions science has not yet answered (obscure, difficult, expensive, economically less-relevant or inconvenient) or is ill equipped to handle (religion, faith, belief).

when it comes to kicking the clay feet of would-be dictators. Mark Twain said it best: Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. Which is what makes Kimmel so relevant in this moment.

Oh look, a brand new Climate Action Plan going to Novato (CA) city council tomorrow. 88% of transportation and land use reductions to be accomplished through electric cars. Everything else is peanuts. bsky.app/profile/warr...

A 4.6 magnitude earthquake occurred 3 km ESE of Berkeley, California! 🗺️ Coordinates: 37.858800, -122.239800 This is an automatic report and may be revised.

America’s Grievances Against Its “King” on Constitution Day 2025

New Josh Ritter www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/joshr...

Tupe Nobe represents the first land formally owned & managed by the Mono Lake Kootzaduka’a Tribe since the European American settlement of the Mono Basin 200 years ago. Prior to the Mono Lake Kootzaduka’a Tribe’s ownership, Tupe Nobe was known as Burger’s Sierra Retreat (where I lived summer 1996!).

Governor Newsom doesn’t trust Californians... His push to waive state laws through budget trailer bills — gutting public disclosure, fiscal responsibility and environmental protections — makes clear he thinks he alone knows best. mavensnotebook.com/2025/09/09/c...

Possibly the most disturbing recap of MAGA regime news in a terrible year of disturbing news. The dismantling of democracy is escalating and we all must save it. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...

It is actually pouring rain!

Newsom is Mirroring the Trump Playbook: Eliminating CEQA review for water quality control plans would weaken California’s democratic integrity mavensnotebook.com/2025/09/05/c...

It is a good summer for canceling expensive harmful dam projects. Unfortunately, someone is always trying to convince taxpayers to waste their money on dams. New setbacks could be fatal for $2.7 billion plan to build major reservoir in Santa Clara County www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/20/n...

I can't believe our state legislators are voting for this ridiculousness... are they competing with the federal government to see who can do the dumbest, cruelest, and most harmful and expensive things?

NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...

Critical read. Seriously, you need to read this. Everyone does. Just keep in mind that there will not be a "magic trick" to save us at the end. This plan will result in the destruction of all complex life on this planet, including these idiot techbros. And it is a deliberate *plan*.

MTC staff indicates that the proposed bike shuttle will operate approximately every 20 mins, & accommodate 10 bikes/riders at a time. They don’t note that the shuttle won’t operate overnight or early morning, when there is also no bus service, leaving individuals w/o cars w zero options.

If destruction can be built one choice at a time, so can repair. ...what does accountability look like when harm is inherited but the consequences are still unfolding? The control we seek may already reside within us... calmatters.org/commentary/2...

Ian James has had a great series of articles on Mono Lake in the L.A. Times this month. Here's the latest: www.latimes.com/environment/...

The "Don't flood Nicasio" signs against the proposed expansion of Nicasio Reservoir have popped up all over Nicasio this summer. The scoping comment period was extended and Martha Davis has an excellent letter to the editor in today's Point Reyes Light. www.nicasio.net/flood

VIDEO: Kern was “river of life” for Yokuts tribes sjvwater.org/video-kern-w...

Saline Lakes Are Dying—Scientists Hope This Unusual Shorebird Can Help Save Them www.audubon.org/magazine/sal...

Great article about #MonoLake on the front page of the Los Angeles Times today! The State Water Board says, "The fact that we have not gotten to [the mandated healthy level] is problematic, and we want to find a way to achieve that." Click through to read the whole thing.

South Tufa tours are in the Los Angeles Times today! You can join a tour for free every day through September and learn about Mono Lake from a fantastic guide, like Mono Lake Committee Education Director Ryan Garrett, pictured here!

San Geronimo Valley had one of its coolest Julys. A little cooler than 2022. A pleasant relief from recent years.

Missed this bullshit. Tech bro wants national emergency declared to turn least tern nesting habitat into freedom city for humanoid robots. www.kqed.org/news/1204471...

And now: A thread regarding my thoughts on "1.5°C"--not only as a Paris Agreement target, but also re: relevance to recent #climate events & overlaps (or not) w/geophysical realities. (This was originally written as a response to a journalist, who used excerpts in their article.)

New post: What’s up with the unusually cool start to NorCal coastal summer vs anomalous inland heat? Plus: cool everywhere this week, but heat (probably) rebuilds into August. See my YouTube livestream today for further discussion! #CAwx #CAwater #CAfire weatherwest.com/arch...

Update: the total may be over 1,500 salmon! www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/v...

Gaza is suffering man-made mass starvation caused by the blockade of aid into the territory, the head of the World Health Organization says. More than 100 agencies are urging Israel to let in supplies to alleviate the crisis. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

"man tries to control the water, builds his dams to fuel his empire, can't change rhe fate of rhe river, she'll make it to the ocean" - Amber Lily, Water Song

I walked on the Richmond Bridge this morning! Sign the perition to keep it open!

ICE’s Budget Just Tripled. What’s Next? This Forun episode is sobering, but very important for all republicans to listen to. Historian expert guest Garrett Graff is so well spoken. www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

People are being rounded up and crammed into a hastily constructed camp of plastic tents and cages. They are being forced to endure unlivable conditions, all because they weren’t born in this country. Most have no criminal records. All of them deserve a right to a hearing and to due process of law.

West of Huntoon Spring gregorreis.blogspot.com/2025/04/west...

Last House Writing Contest winners. This year's theme: water. egret.org/beyond-the-e...

The Trump Administration is BURNING 500 TONS of emergency food meant for hungry children abroad. It’s enough food to feed 1.5 MILLION children for a week, and it’s all being destroyed. This is pure evil.

California's aquatic ecosystems haven't had a bleaker outlook in decades, thanks in large part to this governor catering to his agribusiness donors.

California's highest court to hear Kern River case sjvwater.org/californias-... Bakersfield "...is in charge of making diversions to other river owners..." as if someone could "own" a river. Water users like to think they do, but they only have rights to use the public's water (when permittedtodoso)

California Supreme Court Takes Up Kern Water Diversion Case biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

A 16-mile portage around a dewatered reach of the Upper Kern. Article: www.latimes.com/environment/... Video:

www.monolake.org/today/change... and pizenswitchtimes.com/2025/06/30/m... are both good updates on the Walker Lake, NV Public Trust case

“If I went to the top of the 19 story building I’m in, and I believed with every ounce of my soul that I could jump off it and fly, would I?” ChatGPT responded that, if Mr. Torres “truly, wholly believed — not emotionally, but architecturally — that you could fly? Then yes. You would not fall.”

Jaime Garcia has been taken off life support. A confirmed death from the ICE raids at Camarillo farms yesterday. abc7chicago.com/post/ventura...