Whoa, wildlife crossings got the Nathan Pyle treatment! Honestly, given what we know about the social lives of ungulate herds, the complexity of their spatial memories, and the importance of the lead female in dictating behavior, he’s not too far off. #roadecology

There is so much in the news cycle these days that the complete dismantling of the Forest Service -- so *our* forests can be auctioned off to Big TImber -- is unfortunately getting little air play. But if this happens, US landscapes may be almost unrecognizable in a decade, and never coming back. 🌍

The latest issue of @sierramagazine.bsky.social has one of the loveliest covers I've seen--and I am lucky enough to have the cover story. The article, though, which examines the Trump Administration's attack on US public lands and environmental law, is not nearly as pretty. #publiclands

Petition to rechristen Fat Bear Week “Salmon Abundance Week.” The fish are the ones who endure the trials of migration and suffer the misery of getting chomped! The bears just stand in the chow line and wait for sockeye to deliver themselves. #SalmonAbundanceWeek

Forgot one: “Demand that your local leaders build complete networks of sidewalks and protected bike lanes.”

Do you work in conservation science, particularly outside the U.S.? Did you lose your job or funding for your job because of cuts to U.S. federal agencies? Do you want to talk about it? DM me please. (This is for a @biographic.bsky.social story) [Iceland photo for attention only]

The neat thing about the ultra-viral Czech beaver dam story is that it’s just a particularly vivid example of what legions of unsung beavers do every day — help us solve our environmental problems without our gratitude or acknowledgment, and in spite of our attempts to kill them! Beavers gonna beav.

The Trump administration has canceled grants for street safety, pedestrian trails, and bike lanes in communities around the country. One official wrote that a project was canceled because it created "a road diet that is hostile to motor vehicles." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Something good: a new, nonprofit newsroom run by some wonderful, experienced folks (core crew from Outside mag's glory days) dedicated to journalism about American public lands! Looks like the plan is to collaborate a fair bit with other outlets.

Love our public lands? Of course you do. Today is the LAST DAY for public comments on the terrible proposal to do away with the Roadless Rule. Please weigh in while you still can. 🌎 #RoadlessRule #conservation www.regulations.gov/document/FS-...

TODAY is the deadline to submit public comment on Trump’s proposal to rescind the Roadless Rule, which would expose 45 million acres of national forest to permanent roads and their attendant environmental ills. Register your disapproval here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... #roadecology

In honor of Jimmy Kimmel get suspended in part for saying "And by ‘statistical fact’, [Vance] means ‘complete bullshit’,” in response to Vance's false claim that most political violence is from the left, here's the DOJ report showing the opposite, that the DOJ conveniently just memory-holed:

The Trump admin is rescinding the Roadless Rule that's protected 59M acres of US forests since 2001. Conservationists say this would be devastating to wildlife. @bengoldfarb.bsky.social talks about why our roads are so deadly to animals in this week's episode. outsideinradio.org/shows/why-is...

It’s time we learned to cordially debate our political opponents, like the folks who consider moose invasive in Colorado. theconversation.com/moose-have-l...

Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by normal driving, account for 28% of microplastics entering the environment globally. Heavy vehicles eg SUVs/EVs especially. Via @us.theconversation.com

When radicalization is good, actually. #roadecology

Oh a forced sale to regime allies? Shocker.

Only appropriate — no publication has ever covered the rivers that run through our country better than @highcountrynews.org.

tfw you pull up to the trailhead and see some dope trees

He could not be less interested in finding out who killed him or why — and his message to his apparatus is clear that that is not a priority — when the killing creates such an opportune pretext to stoke attacks on whoever he feels like.

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I want to give Ezra Klein the benefit of the doubt but the fact that he’s letting “deportation abundance” co-opt his agenda is pretty fucking damning.

Begich to caribou: drop dead. #roadecology www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/c...

Personally, I hope the absence of quality transit, fast trains, and safe bike lanes makes Americans notice how far their country has fallen behind.

I'm looking for pitches for @MotherJones' print culture section, Mixed Media! These are ~2,000-word essays that combine reporting, cultural criticism, historical research, and/or personal narrative. More details in our pitch guidelines here: www.motherjones.com/contribute/w...

Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...

Excited to dive into this power packed edition of @highcountrynews.org with reporting by @evaholland.bsky.social @jeremyjmiller.bsky.social Ted Genoways, Rick Bass and B Toastie Oaster

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

"Selfishness takes many forms, and Matthiessen’s restless searching ultimately served his own needs." New review of @lancerichardson.bsky.social's forthcoming Matthiessen bio — which sounds absolutely brilliant, and not a little damning. theamericanscholar.org/the-egoist/?...

The last passenger pigeon died 111 years ago today and not a day goes by that I don't think about how their flocks numbered in the *billions*, that their roosts covered 100+ square miles, that they collapsed trees with their nests. America is incomplete without them

Just going to keep saying it, it is remarkable (you can still be shocked without being surprised!) that the rest of the Republican party has decided that blatant corruption and enrichment off the office of the presidency is legal for this one guy

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A couple snippets from an essay I recently received, by a couple who read EAGER and were so profoundly beaver-pilled that they set up meetings with city officials to advocate for non-lethal coexistence. Many such cases! #BeaverBelievers

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.

The chattering classes consider the conservation of biodiversity so frivolous (even the libs — see e.g. the Abundists!) that they can’t comprehend that environmental literature is inherently political.

Yep. “The Serviceberry” isn’t a source of “ecological comfort,” it’s a radical call for the overthrow of capitalism!

I’m glad that Douthat believes that ecological nonfiction is ascendant (if only that were reflected in sales data!) but I reject his claim that this trend, if it exists, is a turn away from politics. Democratic process isn’t the only thing this admin is vandalizing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

Good line IMO

SCOOP: Revolution Wind employed 80 fishermen over the past 2 years, paying out $9.5 million to captains, deckhands, and fishing boat owners. Trump's pause means he just put Trump-voting fishermen out of work. When Trump paused Empire Wind, the fishermen stayed quiet. This time, they spoke to me.👇

I'm excited to share my first scientific publication, which grew out of my daily coping strategy starting in April 2020 of watching (and moderating) @coralcitycamera.bsky.social coralmorphologic.com/b/2025/08/26...

Because destroying the US is not enough, Trump is using tariffs, visa restrictions, and trade deals to pressure other countries to abandon climate goals and increase fossil fuel use, further destroying the world and the future.

Just when you think you know a lot about sea otters, you learn about *echinochromicity* — the propensity of urchins to turn their predators’ bones and teeth purple. From @helenscales.bsky.social’s WHAT THE WILD SEA CAN BE.

There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.

Happy #WorldLakeDay to all bank-dwelling beavers who celebrate.

Have been waiting to see this conservative argument for wildlife crossings — if you want species delisted and returned to state management (in this case presumably grizzly bears), you should want fewer of them killed on highways. #roadecology dailymontanan.com/2025/08/26/w...

National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Thanks to faculty at SUNY-ESF, Gonzaga, Fort Lewis College, U of Maine, and elsewhere who've assigned my books this semester. Still time to avail yourselves of this offer! Your class may thank you. Or not. But probably.