Since you’re on Bluesky you probably didn’t need another reason to resent the gun lobby, but just in case you were on the fence… it’s killing the loons! (Though we anglers deserve most of the blame tbh.) Great/frustrating @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social feature. 👇 www.biographic.com/why-are-loon...

Last (?) book of 2025: Zeb Hogan’s ichthyological memoir, a series of journeys undertaken in pursuit of Mekong catfish, arapaima, gator gar, and other freshwater megafish, with science and conservation interwoven throughout. Fun & informative, though I wish the publisher had given it a better cover.

CORMAC MCCARTHY: He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die. JOE ROGAN: sure. I've met guys like that

Via @liamjscott.bsky.social at the other site here’s the full email from 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. She’s putting her career on the line by fighting here. And she’s fighting for all of us.

“What were once bedrock aspects of daily life & spirituality increasingly appear as infrastructure, background scenery, or vague environmental concern. Our lived relationship w/ rivers has, in a quiet but profound way, been deleted.” — @andrewrypel.bsky.social tnature.substack.com/p/no-one-tal...

I only drink beers with benthic fish on the label now.

Still there by the Williamsburg Bridge.

Just gotta say, this book wouldn't be anything without Ben's work. If you haven't read Crossings yet, read it. I am hugely indebted to him. bookshop.org/p/books/cros...

Huge #roadecology news this week, as Sen. Martin Heinrich introduced a bill that authorizes $200m for USDOT’s Wildlife Crossings Program thru 2031. Heinrich is a staunch champion for connectivity and I hope he & staff have the resources they—wait, what’s that on his table? Enhance… enhance… enhance…

Huge thanks to @thewaroncars.bsky.social legends @sgoodyear.bsky.social & @brooklynspoke.bsky.social for hooking me up with a copy of their masterpiece, hot off the presses! Can’t wait to dig into their expansive, optimistic vision of our auto-free future. #roadecology

Realizing I know approximately nothing about commercial pike fishing. Is it a Great Lakes fishery? What are the non-gefilte markets? (This is a @drfishsg.bsky.social and @drkatfish.bsky.social question.)

Favorite papers (or even just anecdotes or stray thoughts) about fish response to flooding, floods as keystone events for fish reproduction/rearing, floodplains as critical aquatic habitats we’ve mostly eliminated, etc.?

Life highlight achieved! Huge thanks to @solomonrdavid.bsky.social for showing me my first alligator gar, a 104-lb beauty netted from a floodplain lake by the Mississippi River. Incredible to be in the presence of such ancient, massive, successful critters—the epitome of charismatic ichthyofauna.

Good line from this @boyceupholt.bsky.social gem: “Levees have yielded a kind of landscape new upon the Earth: a dried-out floodplain.”

“Retrofitting something as seemingly mundane as a culvert can have vast ecological & cultural ramifications.” @seattlebryn.bsky.social speaking my language! Also note improved fish passage preventing wildlife collisions. Better culverts work for all. #roadecology magiccanoe.org/salmon-rebou...

Wild investigation on the unholy alignment of industrial agriculture, thirsty data centers, and corrupt elected officials, all of it resulting in groundwater pollution and severe public health impacts. Worth the time. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

The climax of GET OUT when the cop car arrives as Chris is righteously choking his evil gf, the door opens, and Rod the TSA agent steps out was followed by the greatest crowd pop I’ve ever witnessed. Just a giant collective shout of relief in our theatre. People were literally crying tears of joy.

My political identity can best be described as "returning Pacific lamprey to downtown Spokane." www.nwcouncil.org/fish-and-wil...

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

What's your favorite example of parental care among fishes?

I can't remember if I read "Eager" by @bengoldfarb.bsky.social because I was writing about beavers or if he inspired the essay. I do remember the book is wonderful and unexpectedly hilarious. Either way, reading & writing about beavers is fun. shorturl.at/EBf1d #nature #naturewriting #mondayblogs

When your buddy gets his copy of @highcountrynews.org

Tired: flat streets Wired: Speed humps, tables, etc Inspired: Speed *dips*, because modern clearance and suspension makes taking speed bumps at speed no big deal, but dips still make drivers worry they'll damage their car, and that has the highest level of encouraging compliance

Rise and tine

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

“Up to 60 per cent of the world’s tuna catch could be untraceable, or ‘dark.’” Highly recommend this Financial Times investigation on human rights violations within one of the world’s worst-regulated industries. (Also read Ian Urbina’s Outlaw Ocean!) ig.ft.com/supermarket-...

I feel like few wild animals do more to enliven and enrich this country than kestrels. On the very short list for title of Best Bird. From @benjij.bsky.social / @vox.com www.vox.com/climate/4711...

On the day that @opb.org CEO Rachel Smolkin posted this video, saying OPB’s funding gap of $5 million was closed, I was also told by the Chief Content Officer that Hush was canceled. Eighty percent of my income, and my health insurance - gone. I was given no reason for the cancellation. 1/x

People say “the scars of the 1910 fire are still visible.” Look closer: the scars aren’t from the fire—they’re from the roads and salvage logging that followed. Yellowstone burned in 1988 with the same intensity. Because it wasn’t salvaged, most visitors have no idea a fire ever happened.

ICYMI: Newly issued waivers allow hundreds of miles of new border infrastructure — including double walls, patrol roads, and industrial lighting — in the last open corridors for jaguars, ocelots and dozens of other animals moving between the U.S. and Mexico. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

If you haven't read Crossings, it's one of the best books I read this year and you should definitely order it!

"I’d rather see environmental organizations of all kinds drive home the relationship between environ. issues & the concerns voters are already talking about—health, safety, affordability." @nijhuism.bsky.social on how enviros can start winning again. conservationworks.substack.com/p/is-environ...

I read way more fiction than non-fiction, but Crossings was one of my favorite reads of the past couple years. I can honestly say I don't go more than a week without thinking about some part of it, even now, a full year plus since I read it.

Highly recommend taking Ben up on this—have taken advantage of this offer in the past, which resulted in my father-in-law self-reporting that Eager is the first full book he has read since high school

Tossed out this bit of shameless self-promotion on insta last week and figured I’d post here too: my own shit makes great holiday gifts! Twenty-five buckaroos gets you a signed and personalized copy of either of my books; DM for details. Help me afford a haircut and a razor!

Thanks to my guy @grousehollow.bsky.social for smuggling a line from EAGER into the newest edition of @merriam-webster.com. Mama we made it (“it” being the dictionary).

Mindblowing and inspiring that Ukraine has managed to continue its dam removal efforts in spite of everything. freshwaterblog.net/2025/11/04/u...

It's really hard to overstate the conservation significance of this, and what doors it unlocks for future conservation. Mood among my global endangered species conservation colleagues is off-the-charts happy today.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Don't miss this new @vox.com project that uncovers the rapidly changing world of fish farming. Stories from @mbolotnikova.bsky.social + team challenge everything you think you know about the billions of aquatic animals that shape our planet’s future: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Having already dedicated a series to bison, he obviously needs to tackle another keystone mammal driven nearly to extinction by the rapacity of capitalism and now being restored to its historic range. 🦫 🦫 🦫

historic levels of leopards eating faces

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“Freelance journalism in 2025 is an incredibly difficult place to build a career. But, it turns out, it’s a decent enough arena for a scam.” thelocal.to/investigatin...

Here's a bill that would extend the federal Wildlife Crossings Program through 2031 and raise its funding to $200 million per year. Great legislation that deserves to pass. Cosponsor is Ryan Zinke... guess you really do have to hand it to him?! #roadecology www.wildlandsnetwork.org/newsroom/bip...

I finished reading this book last week and I still find myself thinking about parts of it every day. It’s quite simply one of the best biographies I’ve ever read, about one of the most fascinating writers of the 20th century. Hats off to @lancerichardson.bsky.social for this Herculean achievement.

From Thomas MacGuane’s collection “Gallatin Canyon”:

Let’s say that a landlocked author was going to be in San Diego from December 20 to 28 and wanted to take advantage of his temporary proximity to the ocean to do some reporting for his book-in-progress on fish. What might he accomplish? With whom might he try to meet?