Cullen Anderson
@cullenish.bsky.social
Restoration from grasslands to rainforest @phoenixconservancy.bsky.social Ecology. Birding. Flyfishing. Based in Seattle. Opinions my own.
Happy #FlowerFriday! 🌼🌸🌻 Fern-leaved Biscuitroot (Lomatium multifidum) is a fixture on Yu-mos-tos, also known as Steptoe Butte, which harbors the largest and most intact endangered Palouse Prairie remnant. #Nature #Conservation #Restoration #Wildflower #Photography #Palouse #Washington #PNW
EXHAUSTED of DST discourse pretending like there isn't an absolute consensus among experts about what the right choice is. Permanent standard time is it, full stop. Any argument to the contrary is about personal preferences. The number of people who throw out expert advice on this topic is maddening
I CANNOT believe I get to see this on my evening walks holy hell View of Tahoma looming over Elliott Bay 🏔 #Nature #Seattle #Washington #Photography
Sometimes the lines make themselves obvious. 🌱 Palm 📍 Hawai'i (Big Island) 📸 Sony A7III #Nature #Photography #Hawaii
🐐 Goats are back at Conservation Park in Pullman, Washington this week! Come hang out with them until Sunday (May 10th) to see the goats work and learn more about our conservation efforts! www.PhoenixConservancy.org/goat-week #Conservation #Goats #Pullman #Nature #Palouse #Washington
This community in #Madagascar is restoring rainforest on their own. Learn about (and share) their story in our Spring newsletter! Spoiler alert: we're making incredible reforestation progress. Photo credit: Vatosoa Ranaivo mailchi.mp/1fd42de26b25... #Conservation #Nature #Reforestation
Highly recommend folks go touch grass. The flowers do not care about the internet. The flowers are free and pure. 📍Steptoe Butte State Park, Washington 📸Sony A7III #Photography #Nature #Washington #Landscape #Prairie
The same way people gush over puppies and children, I gush over flowers. LOOK AT THEM! Grasswidows (Olsynium douglasii) and Yellow Fritillarys (Fritillaria pudica) 📍Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, WA 📸Sony A7III #Photography #Nature #Wildflowers #Washington #PNW
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime without sushi, unless you also give him a flash freezer to kill all the parasites
It's Friday, which means I have an alliterative reason to post fish! Got away from the computer yesterday for some highly underrated (shhhh) desert flyfishing in Washington
Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.
I don't normally think of hawks as being particularly camouflaged, but this Madagascar Buzzard said otherwise (aside from the screams). 📍Ivohiboro, Madagascar 📸Sony A7III #Photography #Wildlife #Nature #Birding
🚨STAY ALERT🚨 All #Washington residents are in danger! We accidentally introduced Ring-tailed Lemurs to the Palouse after returning from a trip to Madagascar. We regret to inform the community the lemurs have tamed local moose with the intent of forming a calvary with which to conquer the area.
Shaded streams always find me when I leave my tripod behind 🤦♂️ 📍Ivohiboro Forest, Madagascar 📸Sony A7III #Photography #Nature #LandscapePhotography
Crossed off a lifelong dream animal today! Meet the Verraux's Sifaka (not Zoboomafoo). Stunning species from southern Madagascar 📷 Sony A7III #Photography #Wildlife #Nature #Madagascar
And you don't have to look to a history book to understand subsistence agriculture! A billion+ people survive on subsistence ag TODAY. They and their families have to pass up education opportunities. They starve when crops fail. They are desperately poor.
John Brown stan account@johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 5mo agoI'll never cease to be amazed by the people who believe that life was better as a medieval peasant
New (to me) fishing spot paid off. I love spring creeks
I am god's strongest soldier for using "*person* and me" correctly in a sentence, despite every fiber of my being screaming that "*person* and I" sounds better. I am but a vassal through which the grammatical divine speaks.
Please enjoy this video of baby cat trying to intercept a dog toy
It's days like today, sitting here, staring at spreadsheet after spreadsheet, budget after budget, that make me miss the field. Then I remember all the bug bites, the illnesses, the lacerations, the bruises, the close calls with wildlife, and suddenly my office chair feels a bit more comfortable
Creative models like this are 100% necessary for conservation orgs. Philanthropy & gov grants are no longer reliable revenue sources for vital work (if they ever were), & there are so many opportunities to leverage broader economic forces to sustain/grow operational capacity thru mission fulfillment
Sophie Gilbert@sophielgilbert.bsky.social · 6mo agoAre "conservation autotrophs" a future model for environmental NGOs? 1. Buy/lease degraded land 2. Build renewables, do restoration underneath (eco-voltaics) 3. Profit $ 4. Use the $ to do more ecovoltaics projects on degraded land, plus other conservation stuff 5. Remove panels when worn out
Great opportunity to get some native flowers in your life for folks in the #InlandNorthWest, even if you can't do a garden!
The Phoenix Conservancy@phoenixconservancy.bsky.social · 6mo agoOn Valentine's Day, get your beau a gift that grows! We're offering #ValentinesDay Micro-Prairie potted mixes <16in & <30in wide, + a 5ft diameter in-ground yard prairie. Bring your own planter for us to fill or purchase an add-on planter at checkout. #Palouse #Spokane #Washington #PNW #Nature
I will be chasing the peace captured in this photo for the rest of my life, I think. A warm sunset in southeastern Madagascar. 📷Sony A7III #Photography #LandscapePhotography #Nature #Madagascar #Africa
