safety first! video was taken with an outstretched selfie stick to keep us both safe and i made sure to carefully watch sugar baby's body language to make sure that she wasn't stressed out

And mining corporations can no longer claim they’re a boon to the local economy -as huge unmanned trucks & other tech are taking over. So people are replaced with tech that creates a “need” for mining the minerals in the first place.

A showery day at Forest Farm #birdwatching #birdphotography #BirdsOfTwitter

Glyphosate. Arsenic. Forever chemicals. Human waste. We’ve swept toxins under the rug for decades. Now the toxins are the rug—and we’re all walking on it.

"The Roadless Rule prohibits road construction, logging and mining on about 30% of USFS lands ... to protect wildlife, animal migration corridors, watersheds and old-growth from human development and the environmental degradation that often follows". opb.org/article/2025/0…

We’ve lit up the planet, but we’re still in the dark about what it’s doing to nature. A new study found birds in light‑polluted areas sing ~50 minutes longer each day—20 min earlier at dawn, 30 min later at dusk.

Beautiful green moth One of many emerald moths in the eastern us 💚⭐🦋

#ChihuahuanDesert today. Aurora-like rainbow on the far side of the Rio Grande.

It's great to see people come back to this shit hole but also a little irking, like mfer the reasons you left either never materialized or are worse than ever, and I never left.

Flash floods strand drivers on Highway 86 ivpressonline.com/featured/flash…

Western Diamondback Rattlesnake at Bosque Del Apache NWR. This big chunk was getting active right before sunset.

Cutting subsidies won’t sink wind and solar. But the bigger illusion remains. Every energy source, fossil or renewable, extracts value from the planet’s biodiversity we never repay. Calling that “profit” is just self-deception.

Destruction of Mojave Desert Habitat for the Greenlink West Transmission Line. BLM said "there have been incidents" but will not detail the desert tortoise mortality. FOIA submitted.

Native bee pollinator: the red-legged centris (Centris rhodopus) on a late-summer blooming loosestrife flower (Lythrum californicum). Upper Amargosa River, Nevada #insects

Echinocereus chaletii en la sierra alta de Chihuahua 🇲🇽.

Update on Eileen. She's already got 3 pups! Hoping she's putting some of that energy towards roots

Chance of Colorado River deal is 'tenuous' just two months before federal deadline, negotiator says denverpost.com/2025/08/30/col… via The Denver Post

#ChihuahuanDesert today. The long view; light lay like snow at the crest of Picacho; northwest side of the city; here to Tortugas is quite a hike.

Desert Kingsnake at Bosque Del Apache NWR along the Rio Grande in New Mexico.

A sad anniversary: Martha, the world's last known Passenger Pigeon (at left), died on this date in 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo. I photographed her and another of her species several years ago at the Smithsonian's bird collection in Washington, D.C. ©Tim Gallagher