Clearcutting = fire danger Forest practices reforms are long overdue. It should not be legal to scalp entire mountains like this.

ODOT is "fed up" with bicyclists enjoying closed roads, but I'm fed up with government agencies preventing nonmotorized access to closed roads, and with the aggressive logging these agencies commit under the guise of "hazard tree" removal.

#sunset reflections GoPro Mission 1 Pro

Sunset over a field of daisies. Captured with the GoPro Mission 1 Pro.

Another fire burning in the Pacific Northwest outside of fire season. Like with the one in the Capitol Hills in Washington a few days ago, it's burning in a clearcut. Clearcuts are hot, dry, and windy. They create the conditions which contribute most significantly to fire danger.

Hiking video, filmed with the Mission 1 Pro. youtu.be/hU6z1uwtN8g

Way too hot today!!! #wawx

Commissioner Connie L. Beauvais of the Port of Port Angeles hates legacy and old growth forests. What a greedy old scumbag.

Spoke at yet another Washington State Board of Natural Resources meeting today. DNR plans to cut legacy and old growth forests yet again. 😡

Reusing nuclear waste makes a lot of sense. Why bury highly dangerous waste in the ground, when it could be recycled to use for power, and in the process reduce the hazard it poses?

People have legitimate concerns regarding battery storage. I certainly wouldn't want one of these facilities built anywhere near me. We need to prioritize energy use reduction instead. Stop data center construction, prioritize public transit, etc.

Been getting down near freezing at night, but was in the 80s this afternoon! About a 50 degree temperature difference between night and day. #wawx

The bootlicking tech bros who smarmily dismiss anyone who questions generative AI by comparing it to the internet or the automobile are seemingly incapable of realizing the difference between a method of communication, a mode of transportation, and a machine intended to replace human creativity.

Video quality comparison between 4 different GoPro cameras.

So they're going to tear down Wild Waves and replace it with a stinkin industrial warehouse. 🤬 Pretty soon Washington will be nothing but warehouses, suburbs, and data centers as far as the eye can see.

“Our growth patterns cost us money. Plain and simple,” Barrett said. “Until we understand that, until we can get that across to people, we're going to continue to have politicians that make these similar decisions without thinking about the financial and other kinds of knock-on effects.”

We get a lot of rain in Western Washington, but if that rain doesn't fall as snow in the mountains, things dry out fast come summer. You can fill the reservoirs to the brim over the winter, but if there's no snow melt, the illusion of plenty will dry up pretty darn fast.

Here's a few obvious bold actions the state should take to "keep water flowing". - Reform forest practices to prohibit clearcutting. - Protect legacy forests - Ban new data centers - Prohibit further suburban sprawl. @governorferguson.bsky.social @ecology.wa.gov

Reflections of the afternoon sky in downtown Portland. #wawx

So Jim walsh drove over White Pass, but didn't notice the stark lack of snow? Instead he stopped to take a photo of a reservoir in spring, and deliberately use this deceptive imagery to lie to the public.

GoPro Mission 1 Pro starlapse photo from last night.

I find it difficult to adequately express how angry this makes me. 🤬 The damage this will cause to our public lands will not heal for decades, in some cases centuries to come. That's how severe the harm from offroad vehicles can be. #parkchat #publiclands www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/c...

"Ei8ght" might be Shinedown's best album yet.

Found this cool tree while out and about in SW Washington today!

960fps slow motion video, filmed with the GoPro Mission 1 Pro. This is a fun one!

$0.09 gas in Southwest Washington!

I filmed this video in Pullen Creek, one of the many salmon bearing bodies of water which will be affected by the raising of the Sediment Retention Structure spillway. In addition to young salmon, I captured footage of Western Brook Lamprey!

Sure has been a hot, muggy day today. 81.5 degrees right now. #wawx

960fps slow motion underwater video of a dog running, filmed with the GoPro Mission 1 Pro. youtube.com/shorts/y4B53...

The incredible, vast wetland that will be flooded if USACE is allowed to complete its work on the Toutle River Sediment Retention Structure.

The Nippon-Dynawave disaster is a tragedy which we need to learn from. We need to seek out industries that don't pose so great a threat to workers and communities, and employers which will place a higher value on the health and safety of their employees. www.kuow.org/stories/mult...

Lowlight/microphone test of the GoPro Mission 1 Pro, filming a performance of the Coffee Cantata at Portland State University. youtu.be/BXDhsLsc4Uc

The county ignored our numerous no-spray signs this morning and sprayed herbicide all along our property. 🤬

#sunset #wawx

We finally have an explanation of the "unusual bear activity"! 🤣

This is an impressive piece of songwriting! youtu.be/Z_mzYS-ET8o?...

Firing missiles into a foreign country on the other side of the planet is apparently considered "self defense" now. 🙄

Maybe instead of wrapping thousands of power poles in mesh we could JUST BURY THE DANG POWER LINES. www.kgw.com/article/news...

Never refer to someone who uses generative #AI to vomit out media as an "artist". Call them what they really are: Slop Goblins.

Beautiful day for wildlife photography on Puget Sound!

Jesse Welles is probably the greatest folk singer of the 21st century. youtu.be/XCCWjgWCI4g?...

It is an absolute travesty what PGR has done to the old oak forest along highway 30 in the Linnton area of Portland, OR 🤬 A rare and beautiful ecosystem butchered suddenly and with no good reason. 😔

Part of the Wonderland Trail is closed due to "unusual bear activity" in Mt Rainier National Park. Given the typical cryptic vagueness of MRNP's public messaging, I can only assume somthing like this is what's going on there right now! #parkchat

Warning: they are spraying toxic herbicide in Mt. St. Helens National Monument today! Poison like this should be flat out banned, and it certainly has no place in a sensitive research area! I don't want this in my watershed! #banherbicide #banpesticide #parkchat

We must fight back against the greed and avarice by banning new data centers from being built, prohibiting existing data centers from running AI and cryptocurrency programs, and implementing other sweeping regulations to protect our communities from data centers and AI.

It is heartening to see college students reject the charlatans peddling AI & data centers. Americans don't want this job-killing, water-hogging, power-guzzling, noisy, polluting tech that is paving over our landscapes while providing no benefit to anyone other than corporations & the ultra wealthy.

Yesterday's storms were intense. #wawx

What the heck do Washington State Democrats think they're doing? Why would they just hand Republicans an uncontested seat in Congress? 🤬 The Top 2 primary system was a terrible idea, and needs to be repealed.

AOC would be a good president, and as far as I've seen she's by far the best potential candidate out of those who are likely to run.

Was extremely rainy again today. Really happy with all the precipitation after the previously very dry spring here. #wawx