The caspian terns had a very successful breeding season this year at the Salton Sea, in the restoration area at the south end. They had a whole man-made island to themselves and there are still many of them there. Today was the first time I've ever seen a juvenile caspian tern!

Congrats to @hhansman.bsky.social whose excellent book FIERCE COUNTRY is out today! If you liked my book and are hungry for more stories of fierce, complicated, wonderful women out in the wilds, this one's for you. #books #writing #nature www.harpercollins.com/products/fie...

Fierce Country

The inspiring, untold story of three incredible women who spearheaded recreation, conservation and resilience in America’s most beloved landscapes, for read...

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Watching the 1948 movie Scott of the Antarctic, to remind my self of what ice cold looks like. The direction and script are stuffy, but the defining moment when Scott and his 4 men disappear into the vastness of the snow is one of the greatest moment of doom in cinema. #filmsky

“He taught me the importance of storytelling, of looking at things in different ways … Since then, a steadfast inquiry into what Grandad couldn’t say, and a curiosity about connection and where we come from, as well as things that seemed innate in me, has been a background hum.”

Nicola Chester@nicolawriting.bsky.social · 6d ago

‘And of the True Lees, no word.’ Whenever he spoke of the Mi’kmaq in the 1930s, there were long pauses where he struggled to find the words, hands open, palms up or curved around those elusive, invisible thoughts, fingers fluttering, before an irreverent joke chased the thoughts away.

“Once we know that other animals dream, what exactly follows? What does it tell us about their capacity for memory, about their capacity for subjective experience? What does it teach us about their ability to imagine things that are not real?” Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/david-pe%C3%...

Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 5d ago

“We humans have a moral obligation to reconfigure how we relate to nonhuman animals.” New at PB: David Peña-Guzmán on the inner lives of nonhuman animals.

The Kittelsen House in Kragerø, Norway. www.telemarkmuseum.no/en/kittelsen... "It is not the dramatic 'effects' in nature, I care about. It is the mystical pull of it, the quiet, the secretive." ymtmag.no/2026/article...

Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 4d ago

Theodor Kittelsen, 'I Came to the Secret Springs and Lakes Where Moose Slake Their Thirst', crayon on paper, 1900

Follow along as woodworker extraordinaire @jlkavanaugh.bsky.social builds a geetar

Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦@jlkavanaugh.bsky.social · 4w ago

Alrighty guitar lovers, I’m starting a new project: a built-to-spec guitar in the style of a Telecaster Custom. Some deets: ☞ One-piece swamp ash body ☞ Rock maple neck ☞ Fretboard wood t.b.d. (ebony, pau ferro, or maple) ☞ Stratocaster neck pickup ☞ Humbucker bridge pickup

"I strolled a little beyond the glade for an hour and a half… the fresh yet dark green of the grand old Scotch firs, the brown of the catkins of the old birches, with their white stems, and a fringe of distant green from the larches, made an excessively pretty view." I love his reflective writing!

Maria Popova@mariapopova.bsky.social · 5d ago

Darwin's greatest regret and his deathbed reflection on what makes life worth living www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/31/d...

“These proposals would protect large, interconnected landscapes, critical wildlife habitat, important salmon watersheds, and areas of great cultural significance to Indigenous Peoples.” The public comment period closes at 4 p.m. on August 4, 2026.

John E Marriott Photography@johnemarriott.bsky.social · 5d ago

BC Residents and Canadians that love nature: go speak up on behalf of three new protected area proposals in BC that would protect critical grizzly, salmon and caribou habitat. Easy to do w the step-by-step guide: ancientforestalliance.org/speak-up-for...

Nancy Turner (co-author) is recipient of the Order of British Columbia, Order of Canada, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellowship, and numerous other fellowships and awards. More from her UVic profile: www.uvic.ca/socialscienc...

Windspeaker.com@windspeaker.bsky.social · 2w ago

“When Auntie took me and began teaching me and showing me (in 1990), I was ready. My mind was awakened. It was connected to my heart. And I was so humbled and honoured at the time." #Indigenous #FirstNations #plants #recipies #books #culture

"Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life." ~ Hermann Hesse The Giant Redwoods of California 🎨 Albert Bierstadt (1874)

Interview with @jennthornhillverma.bsky.social on “the legacy of the cod fishery collapse in the early 1990’s, the politics of fisheries management, and the urgent effort to protect one of the world’s most endangered whales: the North Atlantic right whale.” canadiangeographic.ca/podcasts/new...

Canadian Geographic@cangeo.bsky.social · last wk.

In episode 122 of the Explore Podcast, award-winning journalist and RCGS Fellow Jenn Thornhill Verma joins host David McGuffin to discuss the legacy of Newfoundland’s cod collapse. 🎧 Listen now: https://bit.ly/3ToKkLb

To this day, the etching press remains in Jens Haven Memorial School, waiting for another generation of artists to cover the walls in Nain and beyond. www.inuitartfoundation.org/inuit-art-qu...

“‘You meet someone who’s a Ranger, and you’re like, okay, big hugs,’ she says. ‘You just are family by this association.’ For Hanes, that relationship, that connectedness, is what makes the system work. ‘If we didn’t have that level of relationship, the North would not be resilient.’”

The watchers: On patrol with the Canadian Rangers

With more eyes on the Arctic, the Canadian Rangers embark on their longest patrol in recent history — a path forward for Canada’s defence and its deepening relationship with the North

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Eva Holland@evaholland.bsky.social · last wk.

Check this out @cangeo.bsky.social's recent Dustin Patar cover story about the Canadian Rangers' epic Arctic patrol is now available to read in Inuktitut!

Recent things on the news that have tickled my horror writer brain: -A whole youth football team from Ethiopia disappeared in Sweden after Gothia Cup. -Somebody broke into a mink farm last night, let out hundreds or thousand of minks so a small town close to Reykjavík is now overrun with minks.

A late wander with my daughter, cup of tea in hand, to clear the wood & the sheepwash gully, to see the moon rise over Julia White’s meadow. Attendant bats and barn owl. Meadowsweet glowing and scenting the night from the ditches.

Tonight’s dinner view from my girlfriend‘s deck outside Polson… #scape #photography

On #NationalBogDay a stunning sundew from our Scottish Wildlife Trust reserve at Bankhead Moss. Unfortunately climate change and encroachment by birch are a real challenge to lowland peat bogs like this #FifeWildlife #ClimateChange #botany @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social @scotwildlife.bsky.social

I think this is my favorite Banditelli photo ever

Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org · 2w ago

There it is. 🪶

As she falls around me Leica M5 Kentmere Pan 100 The Yukon

Here's a transcript and video of Kelli's wonderful @sfpc.study talk — a testament to the power of craft and intuition amidst so much automated ignorance

School for Poetic Computation

The School for Poetic Computation is an experimental school in New York City supporting interdisciplinary study in art, code, hardware and critical theory. It's a place for learning and unlearning.

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Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This eve the great Kelli Anderson gave a 🌈 keynote at the SFPC Promenade + referenced Julie Mehretu's RISD grad speech: "the hand seems to know something the conscious mind does not, where decisions get made visually, intuitively, pulling from everything you have ever seen + studied + felt..."

H for me (but so many good candidates)! I love the strong colors and the themes of resilience, balance and strength. "Water flows ... A drop might seem negligible, but over centuries a stream is powerful enough to sculpt mountain ranges." www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknot...

Gabriella Nonino@gabriellanonino.com · 2w ago

Personal favourite: J (strong contrasting image and colours + love the bird theme) and C ( although the Leonardo and Beethoven & Co. have been used to death and would be nice to see some new faces). G + I also nice with vertical approach. Survey on link below. 🔽 www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknot...

"At walking speed, that distance becomes something you feel in your legs and plan your days around. Towns are no longer anonymous dots, but places where you arrive tired, visible and dependent on the kindness of strangers."

James Boxall@jamesgis.bsky.social · 2w ago

Now that's one amazing way to see Canada. (And of course, a fellow Fellow of @rcgssgrc.bsky.social ) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Mt. Robson, tallest peak in the Canadian Rockies

Featuring works by: Nicholas Galanin: galan.in Jérémie McGowan and Amund Sjølie Sveen: www.nordting.no/realarctic And author's Tsaroff Story Project: drpetermartin.wpcomstaging.com/research-pro...

Peter R. Martin @peterrmartin.bsky.social · 2w ago

See below for Part II in my series of blog posts about my recent Alaska fieldwork trip! This one is about my visit to #TheAnchorageMuseum and discusses some of the thought-provoking Arctic-related exhibits I saw there. As I explain below, it felt like the whole place was curated just for me!

Don't look back, you can never look back Leica M5 Kentmere Pan 100 The Yukon

July 21, 1947 - 79 yrs ago today - my dad was a 17 yr old steward on the RMS Nascopie when it ran aground on an uncharted reef near Kinngait, NU (known then as Cape Dorset). 🧵

Today has been a *good* day here in the Arctic. A close encounter with a favorite of mine, Northern Clouded Yellow. And equally close encounters with further desirables - Arctic, Lapland, Freija's & Frigga's Fritillary; Arctic, Arctic Woodland & Lapland Ringlet; and more still! #butterflies

This Echinocereus expels tiny galaxies into the night air. Naughty flower left a tiny, invisible spine in my finger. I finally got it out after a month of minor agony. I did get a photo op out of it, though! #flowerphotography

"Duluth, Minnesota journalist and author Ryan Rodgers tells the story of O’Hara and of Minnesota’s canoe culture in his book Where the Green Light Shines: A Fifty-year Odyssey from the Boundary Waters to the Far North." Take a listen.

Tammy@tbobrowsky.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hear MN writer Ryan Rodgers talk about arctic paddling and his new book with KAXE volunteer and paddler Jim Gallagher. www.kaxe.org/show/what-we...