🚨Just learned that the next book in our @nichecanada.bsky.social Canadian History and Environment series with @ucalgary.bsky.social, edited by @alanmaceachern.bsky.social, will drop in November 🚨 Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project… #envhist @ehiggs.bsky.social @msanseve.bsky.social

Native #wildflowers are popping in the hills of #VancouverIsland. These two beauties were found in the #SookeHills over the weekend. Magenta petals of Satinflower - Olsynium douglasii. We are at the northern end of their range. Rustyhair Saxifrage - Micranthes rufidula. Our early saxifrage. 🌿

#FridayFieldwork winter fieldwork at Brady Glacier, Alaska: Winds so strong that tent nearly blew away, a multiday blizzard that kept us tent-bound where we ran out of food, and then a wee technical issue with the plane that was luckily fixed with bailing wire and a few ounces of good luck 🧪⚒️❄️

Red Crossbills - southern #VancouverIsland. The bills can cross left over right or vice versa. It seems to be random. The bills start to form when they are nestlings. It initially looks "normal", but starts to cross a few weeks after hatching. An adaptation for opening pine cones. 🌿 #birds #nature

"Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light." The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Mornings from the #SalishSea at the bottom of my road. #landscapephotography #VanIsle

@friel.bsky.social If possible I'd love to get added to the Naturalist list you curate. I'm new to bluesky, so don't know if this is the correct way to contact you. Apologies if I've overstepped. I am a keen iNat member www.inaturalist.org/people/103699 and hope to cross-pollinate with bluesky.

An eruption of Red Crossbills today on my walk in #ThetisLakePark on south #VancouverIsland. Years since I've seen so many. I think they "follow the money" (where "money" is their preferred food - conifer seeds). Maybe we've had good cone growth. The xed-bills help them pry open pine cones. 🌿

#MtAssiniboine: a fav area for me in the Canadian #RockyMtns. B&W images: 1913 & 16. I repeated them 100+ yrs later in 2017. Some things the same, but glacial retreat and forest infill require adaptation ( #forestfire, #water, #mountaineering safety). #ClimateChange #geography #geology #landscape

Did you feel shaking at 1:35 PT this afternoon in northwest Washington or southwest British Columbia? That was a M3.5 #earthquake located about 40 km to the east of Seattle. Felt as far away as Victoria (150 km) ⚒️🧪 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... Felt shaking? earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

“The bottom line: Climate change didn't provide the spark that caused each of these catastrophic fires in LA County. But it's making such fires worse.” www.axios.com/2025/01/12/l...

#RobertMacfarlane poses 2 questions we should ask of strong landscapes: "firstly, what do I know when I am in this place that I can know nowhere else? And then, vainly, what does this place know of me that I cannot know of myself?” (The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot) #landscape #photography #SalishSea

Sunrise on the #SalishSea between #VancouverIsland, BC, Canada, and the #Olympics in #WashingtonState, USA. "You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either." #GalenRowell #Landscape #photography

Jan 15: wildflowers already blooming in the #SookeHills, #VancouverIsland😍! Spring Gold, Tall Oregon Grape & Rusty-haired saxifrage. The saxifrage is an indicator species here, signalling moist, shaded habitats on rocky slopes & cliffs. Its presence tells us about soil quality & moisture. #ecology

The first of the spring #wildflowers are starting to pop up in the hills here on southern #VancouverIsland. Spring Gold - Lomatium utriculatum. This member of the carrot family is always early. The dark green leaves of Calypso Orchid - Calypso bulbosa are out too. #hiking #nature #botany

Wishing everyone a wonderful solstice - Fiat Lux - Let There be Light!

Retired from #UVic's Mountain Legacy Project (mountainlegacy.ca). I do repeat mountain photography to deepen my own understanding of mtn environments. Huge change here. Ice will be gone by 2100. Photos: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBKy35 Location: tinyurl.com/y4rwfmpx #landscape #climatechange #geosky #glacier

A lovely hike in the Peak District: Derbyshire's Dragon's Back. The limestone reef knolls of Parkhouse & Chrome Hill can be slimy, but the route has great views. Amazing to think when on the Dragon's Back you are really on the sea floor 350m years ago! #landscape #geology #PeakDistrict #geography

Seriously, so what? Global heat content continues to rise apace; whether slightly more or less than 1% of that heat goes into the atmosphere vs the ocean in any given yr is basically irrelevant. As the IPCC says: every ton of carbon matters, every bit of action matters, and every choice matters.

😍 Gorgeous satellite imagery from @planetlabs.bsky.social's 2024 year in review. 🧪⚒️

“Also set out in regulation is a requirement for renewable energy developers to pony up ahead of time all reclamation costs through a mandatory security or bond to the province or to private landowners.” Looking forward to hearing how oil and gas cos will do the same. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

#Toronto: Doctors Without Borders will be speaking at the @romtoronto.bsky.social on how climate change is affecting human health around the world. Learn about the communities we support who are struggling to survive and thrive. Book your free tickets: www.rom.on.ca/whats-on/eve...

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds." Edward Abbey(1927-89) Sunset from #AlpineClubofCanada's Hišimy̓awiƛ mtn hut below 5040 Peak #VancouverIsland BC Canada #landscape #mountains #photography

"There are two kinds of climbers: those who climb because their heart sings when they're in the mountains, and all the rest." Alex Lowe - American mountaineer (1958 - 1999). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Lowe Sunset from Hišimy̓awiƛ below 5040 Peak #VanIsle BC Canada #landscape #mountains #photography

Alpine #environment in this part of the Canadian Rocky Mtns. A good view of the debris cone below where the big slab let go from Thunder Mtn (right) in Jan 2022. Looks like this mtn has been geologically "active" for a loooong time! Location: tinyurl.com/ye4tva7c #geography #geology #landscapes

This huge slab on Thunder Mtn (apt name!) came down Jan 2022. The #Campbell_Icefield_Chalet is across the valley (B&W photo). No one was there but I expect that slab falling generated a pressure wave. We caught a small rockfall - and it was loud and dusty! #geosky #landscapes #geology #Rockies

Sub-alpine wetlands here (southern Cdn Rocky Mts) are rare - maybe 3 - 4% of land base. They punch above their weight for biodiversity. This #wetland is just below 2000m. It drains into Bluewater Creek and then into the mighty #ColumbiaRiver just west of #GoldenBC. #geosky #biodiversity

If you're lucky enough to be in the mountains, you're lucky enough! However, #climatechange is changing the alpine rapidly - especially noticeable in the #watertowers of the world. #RepeatPhotography can help illustrate this change: tinyurl.com/mvtc3nu3 #geosky ⚒️🐡

Good morning from #Victoria-BC-Canada on the shores of the beautiful Salish Sea. Victoria is on the the traditional territories of the Lkwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples.