Winter blew in from Canada today #mtwx

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

I think this is great news. This is 7 million acres of land that can be converted to low-intensity agrivoltaics. We could produce a trillion kWh/yr, raise higher-value crops, restore huge swaths of native prairie, and still increase net revenue per acre by an order of magnitude. 1/2

Skateboarding, as we used to say when we were youths, is not a crime.

This is the correct way to raise kids to be happier, smarter, and cooler than yourself

I rarely comment on these things, but these are unusual times. 249 years ago the Declaration called Natives "Merciless Indian Savages.," and the Constitution excluded us from protection while enabling our dispossession. We remember this history not to cause harm, but to grasp the consequences./1

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The multi-trillion-dollar destruction of America is moving forward, but at least the contemptible Mike Lee has to publicly eat shit today

"The proposal would require the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service to identify and sell between 2.2 million and 3.3 million acres of public lands across 11 Western states to build housing." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/c...

Watch out folks, this is the same justification we use for drone striking weddings in far flung corners of the earth. The empire is coming home, just like Chris Hedges says it will.

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Beautiful day in beautiful mountains

Carl Sagan on sensible military spending and climate change.

My first prairie flower of the year is a new one to me. I think this is a Wyoming Kittentail. Could spring possibly have reached East Glacier?

This dumb m**********, this smug mediocrity, includes in this piece several attacks on the left but not a single acknowledgement that unlike him a whole bunch of people on the left *did* see this coming, nor any hint that he is willing to learn a single thing from those who saw what he did not.

Incredible example to pick - they had to put up safety netting around the Foxconn factory in Shenzen because workers kept throwing themselves off the roof

Happy 406 day! Montana til I die

Friday Night Lights, prairie-style

Huh, weird

I just saw a shampoo commercial that advertised that it contained “more than a trillion molecules” and I’m so mad that not enough people know how big Avogadro’s number is.

Tomorrow, my bill repealing the ban on same sex marriage will be heard in House Judiciary at 8am. The ban on same sex marriage has remained in our state constitution since the early 2000s, despite being deemed unconstitutional for the last decade. It's time to remove it.

Not today, I guess

Spring is creeping closer on the edge of the prairie. Horses are out and feeling frisky.

Apparently JD Vance can't eat at restaurants anymore. Welcome to the old skool fake sponsor of @proleftpodcast.bsky.social -- Hello Fascist!

Welp, we got the report/resign email. Not completely sure, but it looks like we will not be responding to this bullshit. Hang on tight. Might be back in Missoula before you know it.

To an oligarch all kyndenesse doth looke lyke waste

We might yearn for paradise, temporal or spiritual. But to our descendents our habitable planet will look like an almost unimaginable paradise. No tech fantasy, no space station or controlled environment will ever compare. Fight for what we have. This is our heaven, and there can be no other.

Here is impact of Nat Science Foundation funding in #Montana . V important in building and retaining capacity for high paying jobs in state.

This is not sustainable

“for instance, if you shoot off rockets next to a river, nobody should be able to tell you how much rocket fuel or rocket parts should end up in the river. Just as an example. Of the freedom.”

This is a nice example of two-eyed seeing – a research approach using partnered western and Indigenous experience – informing conservation. In this case, biodiversity monitoring on Yáláƛi in Haíɫzaqv territory. 🌎 🧪 news.mongabay.com/2025/02/indi...

There are many seven alarm fires right now. And so many posts that urge “do something before it’s too late!” Like what? Where’s the opposition leadership? Why aren’t the Dems organizing? What is the right action? I’m sick of getting Dem donation solicitations w/out any action plan!!! Do something!

A thread on how I came to publish a paper on acoustic ghost whales... I was exhaustively reading papers on blue whales for a book I'm planning to write, and came across a book that mentioned that killer whales can't hear low-frequency sounds below 2000 Hz 1/n doi.org/10.1111/mms....

Here's a tiny Himalayan pony to brighten your day.

I have chosen the wrong barber

The Tribes have used controlled burning for as long as they have been on the land; fortunately now, the Parks Service & others at governmental level are enlisting their assistance, as the experts in controlled burn

Excellent day in the foothills. Get up, get out, make it count.

Regarding the surgeon general's latest announcement: www.nytimes.com/2024/10/26/o...

Tis the season #YEMSG

Breezy but warm in the mountains today. Let's get that La Niña going!

A nice day on the prairie

Nice day in the backyard

Birds moving before the big storm