Mount Tamalpais Watershed over Thanksgiving weekend ❤️

Sunrise over Black Mountain. Calm before the storm. Be prepared for some very heavy south winds starting tonight and then some solid rain tomorrow morning. AND GO VOTE!

American Library Association’s Banned Books Week theme for 2025, “Censorship Is So 1984: Read for Your Rights,” we are encouraging our patrons to read whatever they please. marinlibrary.org/blogs/post/b...

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🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

Proud of my little community today standing up as allies for our immigrant friends and neighbors and our constitution. ❤️

ICE Hotline info for Marin County:

Tony Serra, one of the most celebrated criminal defense and civil rights attorneys of our time (and a Bolinas icon), is 90 years old is facing serious financial hardship. Please help support him. www.gofundme.com/f/support-to...

The Mendocino Film Festival starts tomorrow, running from May 29 to June 1 in Mendocino and Fort Bragg. Here are three environmental documentaries featured at the festival that share our commitment to protecting coastal ecosystems

If you're going between Point Reyes Station and Bolinas: Caltrans is scheduled to continue work on the State Route 1 (Shoreline Highway) Capital Preventative Maintenance Project in May. Work will continue Tuesday, May 27 through Friday, May 30.

This Saturday in Point Reyes Station!

I had the privilege to attend the Center for Domestic Peace’s annual Mother’s Day lunch last week. Amazing organization taking on some of the toughest and most meaningful work. This year’s keynote speaker, Loretta J Ross, was excellent. Recommend her new book, Calling In.

Eelgrass is a coastal hero—storing carbon, filtering water & sheltering marine life. 🌿🐟 Help protect it: 🔹 Know before you go 🔹 Trash your trash 🔹 Use restrooms 🔹 Respect coastal spaces Less impact = healthier shores. 💚 #Eelgrass #LeaveNoTrace #CleanerCaliforniaCoast #California

A few glimmers of spring bloom and butterflies from the Mt Tamalpais Watershed.

Do you like birds? My new book THE BIRDING DICTIONARY is out today wherever you buy books! This little book is deeply silly and full of love, and I hope you'll laugh and maybe enjoy an obscure fact or two.

This nice spring weather has everyone hiking in West Marin. MB runs into Mr. Badger

Sunset at Limantour Beach Point Reyes National Seashore.

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Join us and CA State Parks for 'Let's Talk Trash,' a special PORTScast talk show to celebrate Earth Week--live from Tomales Bay State Park! We'll explore the unique habitats within Tomales Bay and learn how pollution affects local wildlife, fisheries, and our coastal communities. 🌊🐚 Link in bio!

Every Californian with an email address and an internet connection can now visit California’s Bookshelf and access more than 300,000 ebooks and audiobooks. www.library.ca.gov/uploads/2025...

InSpirit was at the Marin County Powwow today--getting the word out about helping people with quadriplegia. If you don't know about our work, go to www.inspiritmarin.org

Our public lands need us now more than ever. The @leavenotraceorg.bsky.social principles empower every visitor to help protect our public lands Know Before You Go Dispose of Waste Properly Trash Your Trash Respect Coastal Communities Take the Leave No Trace 101 Training learn.lnt.org/courses/101

Per @johnleguizamo.bsky.social: “Medicaid is called by different names in different states! Stay awake America you lose everything you rely on!”

Notice to flat-Earthers all around the globe: Please alert the authorities if tonight’s Total Lunar Eclipse looks like this:

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Night snorkeling in the redwoods to find an old friend. I posted that I was going to go look for this individual last week & I found the same one (I thiiink)! In the same deep pool I saw it in a year ago. A neotenic california giant salamander that never metamorphosed & never left the water. 🦎🌎

For Women's History Month, may we all remember and summon the courage of Rachel Carson, who wrote Silent Spring to inform the world what DDT was doing to the songbirds, raptors,and by extension, us. While battling cancer, she stood her ground against savage attacks by the chemical industry...

“The contract delays and grant process uncertainty have collapsed on me, leaving me stressed and unsure what to do. I’m struggling to pay my mortgage, rent, and gas, and I’m worried about my children’s well-being.” - Fire preparation worker, funding paused by Trump

“.. In the end, the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. .. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four?” - “1984” www.barrons.com/articles/soc...

Starting this week, we’ll all pay more at the store because of the Trump tariffs, even while he’s finalizing a multi-trillion-dollar tax cut for the wealthy. All the bluster is meant to get us talking about literally anything else.

Brilliant! Rather than boycott Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress, some Democratic lawmakers are inviting former federal workers to the speech on Tuesday as a way to protest the mass firings and funding cuts that have defined Trump’s first month back in office, per NYT.

Earlier this month we had an amazing time at the Crab Feed hosted by West Marin Inverness School PTSA. We were proud to sponsor this zero-waste community celebration. By choosing sustainability, we protect our oceans and bays, ensuring future generations can enjoy crabs, oysters, mussels & seafood.

One day left! Tomorrow I’m hosting a telephone town hall at 5:30pm PT – join me for an update on what’s happening in Washington.

"The Trump Administration has fired about 1,000 new park service employees. former park superintendent Don Neubacher says some of them worked at Point Reyes." abc7news.com/post/going-y...

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

It’s been a week. Here’s some photos of Limantour Beach, Point Reyes National Seashore and Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. Parks, beach, ocean. 💙 🌊

A new government tracker claims DOGE has saved billions from ending federal contracts. But an NPR analysis of the data finds the claimed savings don't add up.

"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Took a nice hike with the family up Shafter Grade to Golden Gate National Recreation Area lands. I’m so grateful for our National Parks and public lands 💚

@deptfishwildlife.bsky.social your post on FB needs to be posted here too please 🙏 ! So adorable. ❤️

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Youth leadership programs for middle and high school students are now taking applications. www.parksconservancy.org/programs/you... VIA Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, National Park Service, and Presidio of San Francisco

President Trump's executive order that canceled grant funding led to 255 local residents having to pay back $100 grants. www.rocketcitynow.com/article/news...

💚 Planning to enjoy the outdoors this long weekend? Give nature some love, too! Share with someone who makes your heart swell like the ocean! 🌊💌 @leavenotraceorg.bsky.social

Another round of solid wind and rain coming to West Marin starting tonight. Not sure if we’ll see flooding like the last storm, but if we do, do not drive into standing water. Watch this video as a reminder. She got very lucky. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrYk...

Everything is terrible so here are some adorable fox kits.

The ILLEGAL freeze of USAID funds shut down: • malaria treatment for children under 5 • a device to prevent H.I.V. infection • a method to treat cervical cancer • support for pregnant women to reduce malnutrition • tuberculosis treatment for children

Flagging this for parents of teen girls in Marin County. Marin Teen Girls Conference Sunday, March 2, 2025 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Embassy Suites, San Rafael, CA Free! marinteengirls.org