Despite ongoing debates about hybridization, science is clear: Red Wolves are a distinct species. "Phenotype, genotype, evolutionary history – all of that already distinguishes Red Wolves from coyotes,” says WCC Research Associate, Sunny Murphy. Read more: bit.ly/3VAHhgL

I celebrated the equinox early with a Sunday hike among the clouds on Black Balsam Knob in NC, one of the highest Appalachian balds.

Report reveals Georgia Medicaid program has spent more on admin than care

We are thrilled to welcome our newborn zine: Your Quick Start Guide to Nature Journaling a Garden! In this FREE new zine, learn how and why to nature journal a garden—it helps you slow down, notice more, and sparks JOY and curiosity. wildwonder.org/garden

Beautyberry, soon to be bird buffet 🐦‍⬛

I keep getting asked for my salty thoughts about the Salt Path as my position on nature cure narratives is v clear! A mere fraction of those thoughts published here @literaryhub.bsky.social, with thanks to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and @nicwilson.bsky.social for their earlier pieces linked below.

"Nature writing has long had a problem with the way it presents illness. Nature writing only wants to admit illness into its pages if it is to show nature performing a miraculous cure." @pollyrowena.bsky.social at @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/nature-is-no...

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The 19th Amendment was ratified on this day in 1920, barring voting discrimination based on sex. But for women of color, the right to vote wasn’t fully realized until the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 105 years later, we're still fighting for equal ballot access for all.

I feel seen.

This thread shows why we need to protect our children—and ourselves—from Meta’s products in particular and chatbots in general:

Heads up, #UglyDogs :

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, when I was age 8.

This is such a good idea:

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

Our tumultuous times have presented us with a simple choice. buff.ly/RnmCduA

Despite the bleak title, I appreciate the honest, accurate, “big picture” assessment of where we are, how we got here, and possible scenarios for our future.

Been stung twice in the last year; still waiting for my superpower(s) to show up.

royalty free, exactly

Before any of this, there were plants, and the women who knew how to use them. Kea Krause reaches back in time to show us how women turned to nature to find effective abortifacients and preventatives throughout history, all around the world.

It is astonishing (and slightly alarming) how increasingly relevant Carl Sagan's "Baloney Detection Kit" for critical thinking seems to grow by the day www.themarginalian.org/2014/01/03/b...

Georgians! Great news! Peter Hubbard wins Democratic primary runoff for Public Service Commission District 3!

"Misleading"? I think a more accurate description would be "propaganda."

They are trying to kill us www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is a reprint of Georgians for Affordable Energy to understand why you need to vote in the election now (early voting) or on Tuesday, July 15, election day. Third Act Georgia endorses Peter Hubbard. Anyone in Georgia can vote unless they have voted Republican in the primary in June. ***VOTE!!!

Tues, July 15 #GA PSC Primary Runoff The #PSC sets rates and approves future energy generation. Its R board puts investor profits over consumer wallets. Time for a change! Elect Pete Hubbard. #GApol #EarlyVoting in this D primary is on. Find your early voting location: georgia.gov/register-vote

VOTE!!!!! PSC DEMOCRATICRUNOFF!!!

The avian drama is off the charts this year. (Gift link via The New York Times Opinion Section.) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...

Georgia voters! The Public Service Commission runoff election is July 15. Any GA voter, regardless of PSC district, can vote in this runoff (unless you voted in the Republican primary in June). @thirdactga.bsky.social has endorsed candidate Peter Hubbard. Early voting begins July 7. Spread the word!

#DogsinHats are what we need right now. Bonus points for the flamingo.

Every summer solstice I photograph our pollinator garden to document the joy-giving persistence of these perennial native plants. Happy Solstice, y'all.

When DOGE included the Freedom Rides Museum in its list of “underutilized” federal buildings targeted for potential sale, I just about lost my mind. The Freedom Riders' moral conviction in the face of hideous injustice is exactly the model we need right now. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o...

Republicans "blasted" and Democrats "portrayed." Come on, NPR.

I talked with Barbara Kingsolver about what she is doing with the royalties from Demon Copperhead www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFXU...

This story is going to stay with me. Thank you, @bittersouth.bsky.social , Gray Chapman, and Erin Brethauer, for showing how we need community, especially during times of unthinkable events.

[to the tune of Eleanor Rigby] Dog in a sun hat

Congrats to Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder on the publication today of her beautiful new book, Mother, Creature, Kin: What We Learn from Nature's Mothers in a Time of Unraveling. On April 22, I’ll join Chelsea to celebrate at Point Reyes Books, via zoom. Join us! ptreyesbooks.com/event/2025-0...

Clear context on where we've been and where we're headed:

I’ve seen people dig into a lot of the logistical problems with the “just learn to sew” discourse, and I just want to add: We need a better solution for (intentionally created) systemic problems than expecting women to compensate with free labor.

This week's Friday post, about the amazing @quincemountain.bsky.social, fortitude, and dogs.

"come out of hibernation darth" they said "nothing is going on" they said

hello ok i am awake what did i miss tell me every thing

Spoiler alert: I did it for the babies. (If you were born in the 1960s, you might need to do it too.) www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/o...

Somebody wake up @darthbluesky.bsky.social ! #uglydogs

Jump-start your springtime nature journaling with a fun and beginner-friendly online class:

Hello––Nan Shepherd's slender 1940s masterpiece The Living Mountain is published in a US edition for the first time this week, with a foreword by me & an afterword by Jenny Odell. I wrote here about how Shepherd re-imagined & re-made mountain literature. lithub.com/robert-macfa...

He was always a used car salesman at heart.