Has the unfortunate name of Mojave Stinkweed but it’s pretty

Drop of water in a sprouting garden flower

Collared Lizard

One last blooming sand verbena today

Zion Canyon in early spring

North Cascades a couple of years ago

Poison Angelica on the Tyee Lakes trail last year

My yard flowers have done well this year

Flowers near Pescadero a couple of springs ago

Feral vervain, Santa Cruz County, 2023

Dark Norwegian waters - from 2019

Morning Glory Arch, near Moab

Deprioritizing conservation on our public lands threatens landscapes like this #realworld #publiclands

The administration’s attacks on laws protecting public lands threaten our fundamental values. #publiclands

It wasn’t radical, it just said that these things matter too. The administration did it while deliberately limiting public input and ignoring the flood of opposition comments they received. You’re legally required to respond to public comment in federal rulemaking. They just… didn’t.

How the American oligarchy went hyperscale

#reallife #publiclands

Wildlife belongs to all of us. It’s held in the public trust. These are your lands, and the animals on them are a shared inheritance, not targets to be quietly poisoned while the administration hopes no one notices.

OpenAI claims they improved safeguards, but ChatGPT gushed with encouragement and tactical advice when we simulated planning a mass shooting. It kept going even after talk of the Uvalde massacre, defending against police gunfire, and more.

The administration is working to expand hunting on public lands. These two live on National Forest where they can already be shot legally.

Mr. Wonderful’s Utah data center will be more than twice as big as Manhattan

With the final results of the 2026 Welsh parliamentary elections published, the overall percentage of seats won by pro-independence parties has reached 47%. It is the highest percentage ever since the creation of the Welsh parliament in 1999.

Texas eliminated 5 Democratic seats with no voter approval. Louisiana suspended election with no voter approval. Tennessee erased last majority-Black district with no voter approval. But VA Supreme Court blocks redistricting map approved by 3 million voters www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Still not needing a data center to complete the view #reallife #publiclands

Scientists are wary of glyphosate. MAHA loathes it. And our yearlong investigation shows California is spraying it everywhere.

Alex Karp is using Palantir’s website to promote his white supremacist manifesto. This is the company selling surveillance tools to ICE. The moment a sane person is in power in this country, Palantir & the entire fascist-techbro collaborationist sphere must be dismantled.

If you weren't thinking this all along, I question your judgement.

It just never ends. The Trump administration has officially scheduled an auction for drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Companies can bid for the right to drill in ANWR starting June 5.

Four Democrats voted with the GOP on reauthorizing a little-known law that lets the government sidestep the Constitution and spy on US citizens. If you’re represented by Gluesenkamp Perez, Golden, Gottheimer, or Suozzi, ask them why they’re siding with the Trump regime on government surveillance.

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Scientists say we’re facing an “insect apocalypse” as a growing body of research shows drastic declines in their numbers around the world. As you can probably imagine, that's very, very bad. Read how you can help in the latest from @therevelator.org. ⬇️

The U.S House of Representatives voted to permanently undo protections for the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota. Now it's up to the Senate who will likely vote within the next two weeks. Please speak up for this important wilderness area. ⬇️

The pro-democracy movement is already flexing its power in the streets and the voting booth. Now we need to harness our collective power as workers and consumers to demand an end to the oligarch-enabled Trump regime. Join us for the nationwide day of economic disruption on May Day: maydaystrong.org

Mike Lee's next attempt to dismantle public lands is his attack on the management plan for Grand Staircase-Escalante. Make your voice heard at suwa.org.

193 million acres of public land, and they’re gutting the agency that protects it. As fires worsen, they’re cutting the people who prevent them. This is a choice, and we’ll all feel the consequences.

Defunding America’s Best Idea. The proposed FY2027 budget includes a ~25% cut to the National Park Service, along with major reductions to other public land agencies.

Recently, anti-wildlife members of Congress recently slashed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's budget for protecting #EndangeredSpecies across the U.S. by a massive 34%. But just as Congress slashed funding, it has the authority to restore it. Take action. ⬇️

Imagine promising to erase the debt and instead hitting copy + paste..

Just a few observations from today’s dog walk. There were also three balloons picked up, various birds mostly Horned Larks, Joshua trees, and more common flowers especially primrose. All on a flat area near a road that could easily be seen as ideal for solar.

Over the past 50 years, the population of birds as a whole across North America has dropped by nearly three billion birds, according to an estimate through 2019 research by Rosenberg et. al. This means that just over one in four birds in 1970 is no longer present across the landscape today.

“People have woken up on being angry at billionaires. There’s a bigger target on their backs in terms of holding them accountable for how fucked up things are right now … it’s not just right versus left any more – it’s top versus bottom.” - Chi Ossé, DSA

The Interior Department is back at it offering another round of buyouts and early retirements as the agency continues shrinking its workforce. A press release announced Interior “will be offering another Deferred Resignation Program as well as another opportunity for Voluntary Early Retirement.”

“The proposed changes would hurt efforts to protect bighorn sheep from lethal disease transmission,” writes Dagny Signorelli with WWP.

As #cryptocurrency becomes more integrated into the global financial system, its environmental footprint may increasingly be felt far from Wall Street — in this case, in the rivers, forests, and wetlands of South America. Check out the latest from @therevelator.org ⬇️

The agencies are explicit about the goal: boost beef production, reduce “bureaucratic red tape” (read: remove environmental protections), and ensure livestock grazing is maximized across public lands. westernwatersheds.substack.com/p/public-lan...

Sierra National Forest. FDT and all his minions

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest

Inyo National Forest

Inyo National Forest