James ⛰️🌾🇵🇸
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I follow the blooms 🏳️🌈 Seasonal Field Botanist He/him
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Oh I’m smitten rn
9 months ago
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Preserve is so good right now
about 3 hours ago
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All in a days work (w/collection permits)
4 days ago
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Saw my first fasciated larkspur (D. parishii) today. (Left fasciated right normal)
5 days ago
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A short visit to the western Mojave to collect wildflowers
5 days ago
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Found where they’re hiding all the grape soda lupine
5 days ago
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Absolutely love talking to federal turned contractor people who immediately tell me my job is on the chopping block when I tell them what I do 🥰❤️🥳
6 days ago
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Dr. Jeff Masters
10 days ago
The entire research arm of the Forest Service being killed, “Because a scientist who says you can’t log that watershed without destroying it is inconvenient. A lab that documents the damage from mining runoff or road-building or clear-cutting is an enemy. And enemies get eliminated.”
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Got the chance to visit one of my favorite plants around Las Vegas today 🥰
10 days ago
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Made the mistake of bringing a ten dollar Albertsons sub into the field and now my crew is doing aesthetic Wes Anderson edits of me 😔😭
10 days ago
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High Country News
11 days ago
In the Trump administration’s reorganization of the struggling agency, painful echoes of BLM’s past moves.
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Forest Service overhaul sows confusion, concern - High Country News
In the Trump administration’s reorganization of the struggling agency, painful echoes of BLM’s past moves.
https://www.hcn.org/articles/forest-service-overhaul-sows-confusion-concern
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A glimpse of spring before the roar of summer
11 days ago
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Happy to be alive at the same as the most majestic creature within the Mojave Desert
11 days ago
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I know I spent like every waking moment I had running around all the blooms across the Mojave this spring, but god they went so quickly this year I feel like I barely got to see them
15 days ago
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Andrea Grimes
19 days ago
Apart from being simply right on a moral and ethical level, Ms. Rachel is a content creator par excellence in the digital era/Trump era—for both children and adults—when we seem obsessed with ~ influencing ~ but rarely talk about the people who are really the fuck doing it right.
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Ms. Rachel Says ‘I Am Political’ as She Fights to Close ICE Facility in Texas That’s Detaining Children: ‘It’s Political to Believe Every Child Is Equal’
Ms. Rachel is fighting to close the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas, where ICE is detaining children and their parents.
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/ms-rachel-ice-facility-detains-children-dilley-texas-1236696574/
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The California-Nevada border has so many surprises to share if you know where to go
20 days ago
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Bruised, bleeding, stinky, cliff mogged, cortisol spiked ✅ and the camp tarot reading was not positive but at least the sunset was good
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20 days ago
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Chasing spring into the mountains now
21 days ago
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Oh garsh 😵💫
23 days ago
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Happy first day of summer to those who are getting dragged into it with me 🥰
23 days ago
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Found out today government officials get paid to sexualize Smokey the Bear 😵💫
25 days ago
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Nothing warms my heart more than seeing the department of interior releasing AI slop propaganda videos and they have under 100 views internally in the parks 🥰
26 days ago
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Some of my favorite blooms as the temperatures have climbed and winds have picked up
27 days ago
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Was supposed to hike to a down military plane this weekend but now I gotta say my goodbyes to the wildflowers in Death Valley before this heat wave sets them all to seed 😔
29 days ago
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Marisa Kabas
about 1 month ago
Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income? Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero. Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit? Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.
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No hand lens, just vibes
about 1 month ago
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Desert mountains/hills have been on my mind
about 1 month ago
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Saw an opuntia I didn’t recognize yesterday in the Panamints, turned out to be Opuntia phaeacantha in one of the most extremely isolated populations that only occur on the Panamint Mtn Range (the three blue dots on a green patch with no other blue dots near it)
about 1 month ago
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Panamint City
about 1 month ago
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You could say I was surprised
about 1 month ago
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Jake!!!!
about 1 month ago
Girl the OSHA violations
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God I love it here
about 1 month ago
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I would like to frolic by the water again
about 1 month ago
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Drawing circles in the sand at work yesterday (for conservation)
about 1 month ago
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If your network isn’t discussing cone maxxing, intentionally moving up the mountain, or rapidly growing after wild fires, then you need to find a new circle. Your network is your net worth
about 1 month ago
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Lake mead has a chaotic energy surrounding it
about 1 month ago
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Can’t seem to stay away from these fields
about 1 month ago
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First week back with the parks and I’m about to head out to rescue some stranded scientists in Death Valley 🥰
about 1 month ago
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Lita Ford Sings the Blues
about 1 month ago
If they want me back they have to go fully Woke 2, sorry. Whole hog. I gotta be able to get an abortion there
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I am teaching 2-3 Mojave desert plant trainings and I am stressed
about 1 month ago
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Ian L Morgan
about 1 month ago
This is why it's not enough for Congress to just appropriate funds to scientific agencies. How the funds are or are not spent and when they are spent needs to be enforced. The administration is playing games with our taxpayer dollars, when they should be going towards scientific innovation.
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Within the last day or two things have really exploded around the desert
about 1 month ago
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I’m going to carry so many puzzle items in here
about 1 month ago
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I’m caught between the wind and parts of the unknown
about 1 month ago
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Ash meadow pilled
about 1 month ago
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Waiting for a change in the breeze
about 1 month ago
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Trying to get some flower time in before the heat wave hits
about 1 month ago
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Getting some time in with one of my favorite places in the Mojave
about 1 month ago
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Yearly reminder, if you want to teach yourself botany I highly recommend using this free resource! This is one of the few sciences you can teach yourself and be proficient in the field with enough practice (but a mentor/other scientific papers go a long way as well)
www.blm.gov/colorado/blm...
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Recognizing Plant Families of the West | Bureau of Land Management
Recognizing Plant Families of the West is an extensive 215-page field guide created to identify 54 of the most prolific plant families in the West. This beautiful guide offers the basics to plant iden...
https://www.blm.gov/colorado/blm-library/blm-library/recognizing-plant-families-west
about 2 months ago
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Yearly reminder, if you want to teach yourself botany I highly recommend using this free resource! This is one of the few sciences you can teach yourself and be proficient in the field with enough practice (but a mentor/other scientific papers go a long way as well)
www.blm.gov/colorado/blm...
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Recognizing Plant Families of the West | Bureau of Land Management
Recognizing Plant Families of the West is an extensive 215-page field guide created to identify 54 of the most prolific plant families in the West. This beautiful guide offers the basics to plant iden...
https://www.blm.gov/colorado/blm-library/blm-library/recognizing-plant-families-west
about 2 months ago
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Sometimes my head hurts when I think about the possibility of making between 40-100 dollars an hour if I switched to consulting, but it’s fine I’ll stick to academia/federal for now 😵💫🫠
about 2 months ago
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