Good news! The thing about public lands is that we find our common ground. The vast majority of people in the American West do not want our shared wilderness, public commons, histories and cultural artifacts sold, extracted, destroyed, and privatized. Keep fighting back suwa.org/breaking-new...

Protect grasslands & fungi at all costs. This mapping project shows mycorrhizal fungi revitalizes soil & stores 300 megatons of carbon - 5x as much as the carbon contained by all humans. These fungi webs stretch 730 million times longer than from the Earth to the Sun www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/s...

Beavers relocated to the Tásmam Koyóm meadow built a 328-foot dam and a wetland that has increased water coverage by 22% A wilder future for western lands will treat beavers not as a nuisance, as in the brutal past, but as a relative and ecosystem partner #rewilding www.upworthy.com/beavers-rein...

This month my newsletter for @biologicaldiversity.org looks at the environmental cost of grazing public lands in the American West. The Grazing Action Plan could open grazing in the Grand Canyon and critical streams & habitat in Grand Staircase Escalante www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/pop...

Nature writing about the land is so important as the modern world works to sever and numb these relationships @melissasevigny.bsky.social brings her unique voice to this essay connecting love, loss, memory, health and the sea. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g... @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social

Wow! “Beyowolf” was the first wolf to enter Los Angeles County in a century and now she’s the first wolf in Sequoia National Park. What an incredible journey. This just shows how much we need to protect wildlife corridors Wishing BEY03F safety. Hope she finds a mate. www.sfgate.com/national-par...

America's roadless forests are some of the most intact, connected wildlife habitats left in the country. We have a chance to keep these wild forests safe — for good. Ask your legislators to cosponsor the Roadless Area Conservation Act and help save the homes of America's most vulnerable species. ⬇️

So many beautiful books... can we just stop time for a few breaths to read all there is to read in the world of nature writing? From Terry Tempest Williams' holy ordinary to owls, words, ferns, climate, and guides to the wilds of Alaska orionmagazine.org/article/twel... @orionmagazine.bsky.social

This little variable checkerspot #butterfly came to pass in my garden today, spending its last moments of its life with me. Checkerspots are found in Western states and in range stretching from Alaska to Baja California and through the Rocky Mountains into Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Wyoming.

More corrupt conflict-of-interest from this government. A multi-millionaire rancher helping run the agency in charge of grazing regulations giving herself even more power to graze 250,000+ acres of taxpayer-funded public lands, destroying nature on our dime. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Young condor 1262 launches himself from the ground to the top of the observation blind at Pinnacles, my second home. Note the sound as he lands! Also, this window is one-way glass: I can see him but he doesn’t see me inside.

Private herds of calf/cow pairs already graze 240 million acres of public lands for less than a can of beans. Grazing endangers wildlife, creates conflict with wolves, strips land, and pollutes streams with feces. Now they're trying to graze the Grand Canyon. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Unbelievable. I wouldn't use this in my garden, much less our sacred public lands - the last places for wildlife. Glyphosate is one of many pesticides obliterating native wild animals and plants in our national forests and local taxpayer-owned public lands www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This story gets crazier. 1. Thought the coyote swam from SF - Alcatraz. A huge feat in cold water. 2. He ate a seabird/ nesting season. So they want to trap him. 3. Scat DNA: actually, coyote swam from Angel Island which is FARTHER 4. They can’t find the coyote now. www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

A wolf called “Cedar” has crossed one of the last gaps in the border wall. This insane wall blocks an important wildlife corridor as well as people and landscapes. It’s cutting off the genetic diversity Mexican gray wolves desperately need to avoid extinction. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Huge news. Conservationists are celebrating today because two wolf families have been reintroduced into Durango. Do you know the story of Llave? She is a beautiful wolf. Named by schoolchildren, she holds the "key" to Mexican gray wolf recovery. #rewilding www.westernwatersheds.org/2026/04/que-...

Moving the USFS and closing research facilities is handing control of public lands to the heart of the anti-public lands movement. Lobbyists & states that want more logging, more privatizing, less wildlife, control the show and 193 million acres of the West. www.thewildlifenews.com/2026/04/02/b...

Not April Fools. Trump's plan to expand grazing in wild places will mean losing more wildlife like grizzlies and wolves. Cozying up to Big Beef is a stunt that hands Western public lands over at the expense of clean water and our ability to fight extinction. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Nearly twice as old as the dinosaurs, horseshoe crabs have been crawling ashore for over 450 million years. Sadly, their populations have plummeted by more than 70% in recent decades. So we just announced our intent to sue the federal government for denying them #ESA protections. bit.ly/41quLDj

This is one of the most important issues with the global food system, yet it is often ignored. Put simply, we don't actually grow much *food* in our farms around the world. Instead, we grow grossly inefficient animal feed and biofuels. drawdown.org/news/only-ha...

Can you guess the species this track belongs to? Siskiyou County, in the far southern reaches of the Cascade range, outside Mount Shasta

Let’s change everything named for Cesar Chavez and name it for Dolores Huerta instead. And elevate movements, not men.

A new study shows California Condors are behaving more wild, but this means they’re eating lead-filled wild pig carcasses more than the lead-free ones provided to them. Bans on lead, hunter education & enforcement are vital to their hard-won recovery & rewilding. news.ucsc.edu/2026/03/adve...

If H.R. 4255 passes, #Lobos will lose their status as a federally protected endangered species. If “delisted” by legislation, rather than by an administrative rulemaking guided “solely by the best available science” as required by the ESA, Lobos could be on a path to their second wild extinction.

“The last of Ireland’s great oak forests were gone by the end of the seventeenth century,” writes Lenny Antonelli in this story from our 2021 Spring issue. “But pockets of this ancient forest linger.” Today, walk with us through the ghost wood.

Ten groups just sued the Interior Dept. for removing federal protections from #PublicLands in an area stretching from the Yukon River to the Brooks Range. These lands had been protected for over 50 years and subject to federal oversight intended to ensure #Arctic health. bit.ly/4rlcIZJ

Public lands grazing - some call “welfare ranching” - is destructive to arid Western lands and riparian habitat & a leading threat to wolves, coyotes, beavers + more in the West. Looking for stories / lived experiences of destruction of nature from public lands grazing for a piece I’m writing. DM!

Hive mind help: I am looking for any articles, organizations, data, anecdotes and stories about the connection between biodiversity/nature and health, “wellness,” and well-being. Also: biodiversity loss, lack of nature, grief and unwellness. Send em my way!

Ag land is pasture on land that can't grow crops? Yes, it isn't a good thing. Land conversion for water-guzzling cattle pasture/feed is the major driver of deforestation and worsens climate change. Not every inch of this planet is for human extraction. Biodiversity has more value than cattle pasture

2,400 acres of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Mexico have been lost to make room for avocados & a market of organized crime & violence to Indigenous people & forest defenders. A new certification program, Guardián Forestal, aims to change that www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/pop...

I saw this while looking at moss today...

A wolf named Bae (BEY03F), the first in LA County in a century, has returned to Northern California, where there are more wolves and less major roads. We need safe corridors and wildlife crossings, and public support for our wild neighbors www.sierraclub.org/sierra/calif... by @lkbotts.bsky.social

Mexican gray wolves are rebounding 🐺🐾 Last year the number of endangered Mexican gray wolves in the Southwest grew by 33 bringing the wild population up to 319 individuals. This is an amazing feat considering just three decades ago there were zero roaming the wild! Read on ➡️ bit.ly/4sj9xmx

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I love condors. They are critically endangered and quite the characters. But they’re also incredibly important. With iron-strong stomachs, they are the disinfectants of ecosystems and protect from disease. We have much to improve in our relationship with them. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

I love this trail-cam video footage of BEY03F, the first wolf in Los Angeles County in a century Watch: fb.watch/FfAkYgwFpu/?...

Need some good news today? An incredible win for wildlife. 6 genetic California mountain lion populations are now protected under the state’s Endangered Species Act YEARS of work from colleagues @urbanwildlands.bsky.social and the Mountain Lion Foundation: it may mean more wildlife crossings too

Importing beef = exporting US climate impacts. Despite the hype about local food, both grass-fed & industrial beef are destructive and flawed systems. “To me, the only answer is, we need to eat less beef” says @profsecchi.bsky.social Import/export less too. @grist.org grist.org/food-and-agr...

If you wondered how the USDA plans to cozy up ti industry, they’ve just …put it all on these pages. This new doc — not so cleverly called “Lawfare” — is the Project 2025 of Big Ag Polluters. The Dept of War but for food. What they’ve been doing and plan to do to weaken environmental protections

BEY03F’s arrival in the mountains of LA county is a win for wildlife, but we are still fighting for protections for wolves. Yesterday @biologicaldiversity.org filed a lawsuit challenging the administration’s failure to develop a nat’l gray wolf recovery plan biologicaldiversity.org/programs/car...

Cows are an invasive species that damage nature. Tribes are showing that less grazing benefits native wildlife like sage grouse. Yet ranchers dominate public land policy. In the American West, less grazing would mean undoing deeply ingrained “settler-colonial” beliefs www.hcn.org/issues/58-2/...

There’s a wolf in LA for the first time in 100 years. A collared gray wolf entered the mountains of north Los Angeles County yesterday. Known as “BEY03F” she traveled hundreds of miles from her pack in Plumas County crossing highways, mountains, creeks and valleys. www.latimes.com/environment/...

A @biologicaldiversity.org analysis found if half US school meals served bean tacos instead of beef, GHG from those meals would be 48.7% less. Yet the new food pyramid prioritizes beef — which is devastating wolves, bison, prairie dogs and grasshoppers www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/pop...

A worldview and also a legal strategy to protect nature. The river’s right to restoration and protection comes within a broader rights-of-nature movement that recognizes ecosystems have a right to flourish and that policy decisions should prioritize ecological health. icmagazine.org/indigenous-n...

Who has priority on public land? A good ol’ boy cowboy mythos in the American West prioritizes nonnative cattle on taxpayer-funded lands and yanked a nonprofit’s leases for grazing native bison. But Montana passed a law that bison are legally livestock. Which is it? yellowstonian.org/on-blm-land-...

We are often given a false dilemma: Western lands must either become ranches or suburban sprawl. Ranchers benefit from this myth. But there is a 3rd way: conservation. Protecting nature for everyone. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a... from @kurtisalexander.bsky.social @sfchronicle.com

US “beef plan”= more destruction of rivers, streams and wild places & more conflict with wolves and other wildlife. @biologicaldiversity.org has documented decades of cattle operations illegally trashing protected habitat and pushing species toward extinction biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

US beef is underestimated by ~6x if factoring in the missed opportunity to rewild & restore the land used for its production. And according to this new WRI report, implementing EVERY existing & breakthrough mitigation tech would only reduce US beef carbon costs by 18%: www.wri.org/insights/tru...

The coyote who swam to Alcatraz lived. Rangers found evidence of the coyote consuming a bird. Then there’s this image, well after the great swim to the historic island. I wonder if this coyote, who swam to Alcatraz Island, can hear the howling and yips of coyotes who swam to nearby Angel Island?