Love love love waking up to this creature hitting its head against my car so that I’ll feed him 🥰

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Running around Colorado like a mad man

Spent the weekend collecting plants around Death Valley 🥳 (with a permit)

Palm time 🥳

Then I guess it's not a financially sustainable organization. They'll have to close some locations or shorten their hours. Alternatively, we could end the public navy and let private navies provide this service.

I don’t think I’ll ever get over hanging out with some of the most ancient trees tbh

Views from Death Valley today

Something something may flowers

Fun things are popping up all over the Mojave

Stick bug time

There is a light ahead, there must be

I hope the lizards can appreciate the slayyyter music blasting from my phone while i key plants

I can’t believe it took me this many years in Vegas to find the bootleg Lego market

Notice: If you are an environmentalist or environmental organization using AI to generate a "Happy Earth Day" graphics, I will be billing you for injuries I receive as a result of how hard I am side-eyeing you.

Trying some good living

The rapid shifts from burning hot to freezing point are kicking my ass

They let me in the lava tubes

Big iron (magnetic reader) on his hip

Preserve is so good right now

All in a days work (w/collection permits)

Saw my first fasciated larkspur (D. parishii) today. (Left fasciated right normal)

A short visit to the western Mojave to collect wildflowers

Found where they’re hiding all the grape soda lupine

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 🥰❤️🥳

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.”

Got the chance to visit one of my favorite plants around Las Vegas today 🥰

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 😔😭

In the Trump administration’s reorganization of the struggling agency, painful echoes of BLM’s past moves.

A glimpse of spring before the roar of summer

Happy to be alive at the same as the most majestic creature within the Mojave Desert

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

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.

The California-Nevada border has so many surprises to share if you know where to go

Bruised, bleeding, stinky, cliff mogged, cortisol spiked ✅ and the camp tarot reading was not positive but at least the sunset was good

Chasing spring into the mountains now

Oh garsh 😵‍💫

Happy first day of summer to those who are getting dragged into it with me 🥰

Found out today government officials get paid to sexualize Smokey the Bear 😵‍💫

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 🥰

Some of my favorite blooms as the temperatures have climbed and winds have picked up

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 😔

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.

No hand lens, just vibes

Desert mountains/hills have been on my mind

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)

Panamint City

You could say I was surprised

Girl the OSHA violations

God I love it here