Pathfinder Outdoor closing in Manhattan KS hurts. End of an era. 50 years.

Helping out on the Kaw Valley Farm Tour this weekend at Compass Prairie Art Farm! Plenty of cut flowers, artists demos, food and prairie ecologists.

The local elementary school has an awesome community and PTA, but it doesn’t feel good when they raised over $40,000 for their fall fundraiser and the surrounding schools can’t. 80% of donations in our district go to schools with less than 20% free or reduced lunch. Zip code determines outcomes.

The birding trip to Baker Wetlands ended up being a bugging trip.

Your yard doesn’t have to be a sterile hellscape of turf grass.

Plant some native asters in the yard for late season pollinator resources!

Brain melting art when the sun hits it just right.

Could we let houses from the 1970s exist and stop doing this?

Native inoculants just might be the future of prairie restoration.

While inspecting 3,600 wetland plugs, I took in more monarchs and Fire Keepers Circle! www.jcprd.com/1968/Heritag...

Beautiful sunset at my favorite spot. Hate on Kansas all you want!

Finally back in the woods! Florida was not my jam.

My yard is a beautiful wild mess and it’s producing monarchs.

I’m so excited that we’re hosting Joey in KC. Please grab a ticket! www.eventbrite.com/e/kill-your-...

The island that banned hives: can honeybees actually harm nature?

I love this sign 10/10

Orlando is Branson with palm trees.

The national park and recreation conference has so many public toilet vendors. They go from traditional to whatever this thing is.

Landed in Orlando for the first time and it’s exactly what I expected.

Kill Creek Park was stunning today. So much biodiversity between the vast prairies and woodland edges.

My wife’s creepy doll collection just came out of the basement. Halloween begins.

Hosting all the grassland managers from across the Midwest was wild, and a social media influencer. That was a first!

Life comes at you fast!

It’s dragonfly migration this week. No video or photo can capture the spectacle. Standing in a prairie with 50,000 dragonflies is wild.

It’s blowing my mind that we’re seeing 45% less weeds when we inoculate a new prairie with mycorrhizal fungi. Greater native early and late successional establishment.

Growing season fire is a calculated land management tool that doesn’t work in many situations. The smoke was dramatic but 40 acres of invasive Lespedeza are toast. Minimal wildlife impacts.

Hosting most of the grassland managers across the Great Plains this week

The last round of monarchs are about to head south from Kansas.

Weather is shaping up for some ripping prescribed fires Monday. All systems go.

What has the industry done to you Rudbeckia?

Coffee and mountain biking checked off the list. Nap time

New KC Wildlands bandanna, at my favorite prairie, on a beautiful Friday?

If the rule is correct, the amount of weighted vests in my neighborhood means we’re in a good spot

Trying to manage long range, conservation planning and a field team is rough this time of year.

Alien Earth episode 5 is the best horror movie of the year so far.

Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities, shares Stateline. buff.ly/CicG9BT

The Texas National Guard starting a skirmish in Chicago seems like the jumping off point to civil war.

Headphones in, reading every label, with a feral child using a small cart should be a felony at Trader Joe’s.

Hope your tire is flat. Sedums and cactus crushed again.

Morning music - Tigers Blood is the sixth studio album from Waxahatchee.

Spent half my day looking at mushrooms

Haven’t ridden the Smithville mtb trails in probably 20 years. Still rad.

One of the firefighters arrested is an Oregonian. My office has been in touch with his lawyer who says he can't locate his client. My office is working to get more information on his whereabouts ASAP.

Really cool opportunity to meet like minded conservation folks in KC next month!

It’s the time of year where everything breaks. Radiators, coolant lines, sprayer pumps, tires. It all hits in late August after a field season

Morning music with the second studio album from the Black Keys.

The monarchs are emerging! Wonderful afternoon surprise on the patio.

Owning a home isn’t for the week. 50 year old house develops a pinhole water leak and they just keep coming…don’t want to replumb the whole house….

This is the best movie I’ve watched in a minute. youtu.be/zl-wAqplQAo?...

Perfect leaf!