Oregon Public Media did a really beautiful mini doc about the first descent of the undammed Klamath River that is worth a watch youtu.be/4FuGuWeAra4?...

Suggested reading: "Is a River Alive" by Robert MacFarlane www.kuow.org/stories/can-...

Spill-response crews planned to start digging up a blueberry farm near Everett on Tuesday to find the cause of a jet-fuel spill that shut down the Pacific Northwest’s primary oil pipeline.

An annual art festival in Utah drew more visitors than usual amid the shutdown.

“The State of Water: Understanding California’s Most Precious Resource” would make a good Christmas gift. Bay Area nature writer says his book is being banned from Yosemite share.google/FEOgVUMGV1Uf...

ZOMG LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE SHALE Okay, so the Burgess Shale is a fossil bed in British Columbia that contains a whole bunch of fossils of weirdass creatures from the Cambrian era, over 500 million years ago. But the great thing about the shale is that it has fossilized SOFT PARTS!

The map submitted by Republicans “does not comply with Utah law,” Judge Dianna Gibson wrote. https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2025/11/11/gerrymander-utah-judge-rejects-gop 

For all you fans of the new @netflix.com series “Death by Lightning,” here’s the table of contents for my book “The Last Lincoln Republican: The Presidential Election of 1880.” It covers much of the ground the series explores. It’s published by the University Press of Kansas.

Got to watch a barred owl in our yard today. We occasionally hear them at night, but I've never seen one during the daytime. Crows were screaming at it, but the owl just took a nap.

Future of the NPS: (great job if your financially self sufficient but like working full time): #parkchat Yosemite Opens Full-Time Unpaid Ranger Position, Gets Backlash - Backpacker share.google/hceKjHsvZEX6...

Rainy fall day in the PNW on a trail along the Pilchuck River.

STORY HERE: https://bit.ly/3L37EtN

Court documents filed today reveal that the Trump administration intends to fire dozens of Fish and Wildlife Service staff. The firings are part of a larger move to cut more than 2,000 jobs at the Interior Department. Get the rest ➡️ bit.ly/3WgcdTO

Federal Lands Need the Public's Help: northdakotamonitor.com/2025/10/13/f... #parkchat

View from the Big 4 area, Mt Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest on a clear October afternoon.

And, if you like birds but haven't seen this, you really should watch: youtu.be/zl-wAqplQAo?...

Putting on the To Watch list: Quannah ChasingHorse Says The Colorado River’s Survival Is About More Than Water www.huffpost.com/entry/americ...

Pink Salmon cruising around riffles in the Snohomish River, Wa doing pink Salmon stuff.

Just seemed like the kind of news story we need: make time to get outside, shut off the modern world. It will catch up with you later . Nobel Prize winner was hiking in Yellowstone with phone set to airplane mode. He'll keep doing it for work-life balance | Fortune share.google/0Yn1wznyXo4l...

Quote post a pic of a National Park. Sunset over the Grand Canyon, looking west from Fire Point, Grand Canyon National Park, North Rim - about 20 miles west of where the North Rim Lodge once stood. #FindYourPark #ParkChat #allpubliclandsmatter

#parkchat A Washington hiker’s guide to the 2025 federal shutdown — Washington Trails Association share.google/XJWG31i8ka5E...

"Journal of Public Economics found that when an existing park was upgraded to National Park status, both employment (4%) and income (6%) increase in the surrounding area" #parkchat Big Idea: Western Pennsylvania should have a National Park | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette share.google/NklxP8XZBB6L...

Link to Public Comments Due Sept 30th: USDA Opens Public Comment Period on Department Reorganization Plan | USDA share.google/VI6TOj6frZXs... The dismantling of the Forest Service - High Country News share.google/3Oo5FqQHyL7r...

Decades of public-lands planning, overturned in a day - High Country News share.google/IKTztC8JUsFJ...

"Most on both sides of the debate agree that without Redford's efforts, particularly in the mid-1970s, there probably would be no Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument today." #parkchat REDFORD FIGHTS ON TO PRESERVE UTAH – Deseret News share.google/6w2vpPihDwYg...

Speak up!

Sunset this evening from a DNR wildlife preserve on the Skagit River Delta.

This is a good dive into current NPS conditions with a focus on research, and the future of our natural resource agencies if things don't change. #parkchat

From layoffs to billion-dollar budget cuts and ideological battles over history itself, the National Park Service is facing one of the most turbulent moments in its 109-year history. This week on @revealnews.org:

Wonderful little film. 🤍

Excited to announce that my 5th and final PhD chapter is now published! 🥳 Teaching fish new tricks: repeated exposure to a velocity barrier improves passage performance #fishlearning #fishpassage #galaxiids #fishswimming #fish 🐟🐟🐟 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Congratulations Rachel! Looks like a great study and I’m not surprised at all that those little escape artists were able to figure it out 👀

Swamp Creek sunset marking the end of our most recent western WA heatwave

Mind Blowing. “This administration has taken a very narrow view of weather...” Trump admin strips ocean and air pollution monitoring from next-gen weather satellites | CNN share.google/kyMGHWcQNHMd...

We just seeing the early days of cuts to parks staffing #parkchat bsky.app/profile/klcc...

Overflowing toilets, trash heaps plague Washington hiking hot spots share.google/jpkllAog2J6g...

Great federal management of our public lands. But also, why people? Why do we treat our public lands like this? #parkchat youtube.com/shorts/MMfhi...

"The US Forest Service is accepting public comments until August 26 about the future of the agency. Everyone who cares about forests, trails and wildlife habitat can speak up to strengthen how the USDA stewards our public lands." 🌍 www.outdooralliance.org/blog/2025/8/...

Visited the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge along Columbia River floodplain north of Portland. Lots of Egrets this visit. There were groups out in the fields, these were feeding in the canals.

Supporting our parks! #parkchat Six-figure donation helps save future of North Cascades equine program | Cascadia Daily News share.google/ZpskPdKHQCHk...

Osprey perched high above a parking lot & near a busy road in Kenmore WA.

About time. Shillapoo South Wildlife Area near Vancouver could be reconnected to the Columbia River, says state - The Columbian share.google/FbnMv1v4QIYj...

Low tide, Puget Sound

“From a hydrology perspective, the fire is a disaster,” said Mark Nebel, who worries that ash, sediment and chemical fire retardant may seep through the ground and into the aquifer. “The drinking water quality in the park could be impacted for many years.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Most in-depth look I’ve seen at what happened, particularly related to letting the fire burn, for folks following that situation and its implications.

Heron scratching an itch, Swamp Creek, Wa

"But there are two halves to the National Park Service mission. One half is preserving the resources for future generations, and they are taking away the emphasis on preserving the resources."