We tend to think of bogs as dangerous places — landscapes where you can lose your way, disappear into the monotonous mist, or become trapped in deep peat. But for centuries, bogs also offered something remarkably valuable: Refuge 1/ 🧵
Jennifer Schell
@jenniferschell16.bsky.social
English Professor, Cetacean Enthusiast, Canine Therapy Human. I write about anthropogenic species extinction, Arctic ecosystems, more-than-human organisms, and blue humanities. Ocean obsessed! Fairbanks, AK. Views my own.
Oh how I love the trumpeter swans. I happened to have my camera out while I was drinking coffee this morning, and good thing too (Kenny Lake, Alaska) 💕 #alaskasky
For a community of 1600 people, the loss of 44 homes (not just structures) is a terrible loss. Mukluk Fire at 7300 acres with cooler weather helping firefighters. Reporting by KUAC’s Tim Ellis. #akwx #Wildfire #Summer2026 @climatologist49.bsky.social @carrieinfbx.bsky.social
Alaska Public Media@alaskapublic.org · 18h agoState fire officials say the Mukluk Fire has destroyed 44 homes in Tok. The fire, which started Aug. 17, is only 29% contained, but cool, rainy weather has helped firefighters over the last few days.
Our next meeting will be on Friday, September 18 at 3:30pm (EDT). We plan to discuss Machado's "The Husband Stitch," "Real Women Have Bodies," "The Resident," and "Difficult at Parties." Register here: gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi....
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Meeting for "Her Body and Other Parties" by Carmen Maria Machado
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Storm Boy, Colin Thiele’s book set on South Australia’s Coorong bird sanctuary, has been internationally hailed as one of the few lasting children’s classics.
Australian children’s classics: Storm Boy’s tough, tender ode to wild childhood will make you cry
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Wonderful article. Arctic plants are both historically and (extremely) currently relevant. Their very specific and amazing adaptations have put them at risk! Nice notes as well on the range of biases, the importance of indigenous knowledge, and the larges gaps that still exist within the field
NiCHE Canada@nichecanada.bsky.social · 3mo ago"Collections of Arctic plants, both those collected recently and those assembled decades or centuries ago, are not comprehensive of all northern plant life." - @nulybranch.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/11/24/b... #envhist #histsci #nathist #arctic #visualculture
Circa 1992 Camel Cigarettes cooler featuring a rather barren Anchorage. Did Joe Camel tour Anchorage with his blues-rock band, the Hard Pack? That and much more about the evils of cigarette advertising in my latest article. Check it out here: www.adn.com/alaska-l...
Save 30% on #NewBook "California Futures" by Daniel Lanza Rivers, a critical study of California as a site of liberatory dreaming. buff.ly/ZIQRrCn
No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll (if you feel like it) Glacier Bay.
No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll (if you feel like it). White Mountains, AK. Cloudy sky. Large marmot, surveying his domain. #fatmarmotweek, #Alaska, #mountains, #mosquitoes
Aaron Brakel@junolocal.bsky.social · 2d agoNo cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll (if you feel like it) Mining ruin at mid tide, the pump house at Sandy Beach, Douglas, Alaska.
1993 Camel Cigarettes sponsored Fur Rondy T-shirt, with Joe Camel of course. My latest article talks all about Camel's efforts to market to Alaska (and explicitly to kids). Please check it out here: www.adn.com/alaska-l...
I live in grizzly bear country. I would prefer not to walk around smelling like donuts. Makes walking the doggies a tad bit more hazardous...😂🤣 #Alaska, #bears, #donuts, #humanbearbait 🤎🐻🐕🤎
Brooke Harrington@ebharrington.bsky.social · 4d agoabsolutely not
Landback often gets talked about in dramatic terms. In practice, it's much quieter and involves tribal leaders, landowners, lawyers, conservation groups, non-profits and individuals having conversations and collaborating to build bridges. It takes time, because it requires a great deal of trust.
Very rarely is Landback achieved through sweeping, grand gestures or even major headline worthy legal victories. It's achieved by the choices made by ordinary people, who decided that giving land back was something they could do, wanted to do, in order to invest in our collective futures.
If you're curious about Landback, whether that means learning more, supporting work already being done, or thinking about what you might do with land of your own, the first step is just listening. Most tribes doing this kind of work have public projects, contact information & welcome collaborators.
Landback isn't just a fantasy, but an achievable reality we should be working toward. The Land remembers. The movement to return it to its original stewards is, at heart, an effort to honor that memory, to protect & build something better on what's still here, for all of us STILL & NOW here.
But Landback isn't vengeance. It's repairing and healing the harm that has been done, it's building relationships, communities and collaborating to build better futures for all of us, one in which we work together to protect the land and water so we can actually have a future.
And if you want to support the work of Walking in the Footsteps of Our Ancestors, visit plains.unl.edu/projects/wal... You can also donate to our student support fund: fundraise.nufoundation.org/campaign/774...
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The polar bear is quilted. I still have a lot of "ice" to quilt in the background. It's a bit of a slog. To get through all that stippling, I'll put my headphones on and finish listening to Winter's Tale and all the wonderful description of a mythical winter.
I understand that rescinding the #RoadlessRule will facilitate logging, but I think the below framing misstates the issue (since it’s already possible to log IRAs). The virtue of roadless areas isn’t that they prevent timber harvest—it’s that they prohibit *roads*! www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/c...
Trump Administration Moves to Allow Logging in Pristine National Forests
The move to repeal the ‘roadless rule’ would pave the way for road construction and logging in nearly 45 million acres of untouched back country.
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It arrived! So happy to see this collection in print-huge thanks to @farsouthhistory.bsky.social and Maria Ximena Senatore for corralling all of the authors. Glad to be in the company of @medievalpenguin.bsky.social @fwinckel.bsky.social @clairewarrior.bsky.social @aliceoates.bsky.social and more!
Check out Caroline Ford's review of Katie Hornstein's "Myth and Menagerie: Seeing Lions in the Nineteenth Century," published in 2024 by @yalepress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #animalhist 🦁 www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 6d agoWOW Big surprise today, the Snail Facts Advent Calendars have arrived!!!! Scratch off a shell every day to reveal facts about the snails of the world 🐌 They were designed by Philly illustrator Kelly Nichols! (@KidNichols on instagram) I'm so excited to share these calendars with all of you!!
Energy security isn't just about what we build. It's also about what we protect. 🌍🌱🧪 Peatlands cover just 3% of Earth's land but store double the carbon of all global forests. Yet, critical mineral extraction and energy infrastructure are putting them at risk. 1/
Nantucket was once considered the whaling capital of the world. These days, it's more associated with the little whale on the Vineyard Vines logo. But the island's history still marks the place in writer Sarah Giragosian's uncle, who's one of the last of a particular kind of artist: a scrimshander.
The Whaler’s Art
"The creatures were bled for their utility."
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My book TOGETHERNESS, about the interconnectedness of the world, is out tomorrow in the US and Canada. I think it's unusual that @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social AND Richard Dawkins both praised it 😅 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/753985...
Check out Keanu Heydari's review of "Apocalypses in Context: Apocalyptic Currents Through History, 2nd Edition," edited by Kelly J. Murphy, Justin Jeffcoat Schedtler, published in 2025 by @fortresspress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhum www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
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