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Everyday permit science - NPDES & other water quality, streams, wetlands, marine (long ago) - and dealing w contaminated crap people leave behind. Outside is good, wild places better.
Woozle looking for spawning sockeye salmon, Sammamish River, WA.
Support for keeping the Roadless Rule intact is near unanimous and universal. #roadlessrule #roadless #nationalforests #protectpubliclands #publiclands
Americans Leave 1.6 Million Public Comments on the Roadless Rule Rescission. Over 99% Are Against It.
Public opposition against Trump administration’s proposed rescission of the Roadless Rule is near-universal.
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Salmon swimming upstream in the Dungeness River this summer and fall were able to get through normally troublesome areas with help of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe and partners improving the habitat. nwtreatytribes.org/salmon-in-du...
Oh no. 😢 www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10...
Ken Sleight, Utah environmentalist who inspired a main character in ‘The Monkey Wrench Gang,’ dies at 97
Ken Sleight sat on the edge of a raft with Edward Abbey, dreaming up ways to eliminate Glen Canyon Dam. He later became immortalized in Abbey's 1975 book "The Monkey Wrench Gang," serving as inspirati...
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Doug Burgum was once seen as a conservationist. Reality shows otherwise. buff.ly/7dUlUuV
How the Interior secretary has let down public lands and the nation - High Country News
Doug Burgum was once seen as a conservationist. Reality shows otherwise.
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The #RoadlessRule has tremendous importance for drinking water, wildlife, and recreation. It's the sole protection for 80,000+ miles of rivers on public lands. Keep roadless areas roadless! 🚨🔊 Take action by Oct. 6: https://act.americanrivers.org/page/101689/action/1?ea.tracking.id=XThreadsBluesky
ACT NOW -- Oppose rollbacks to the Roadless Rule
Join us in urging the USDA to keep the the Roadless Rule as is, and ensure protection for the sources of drinking water flowing off of our National Forests for over 24 million Americans.
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#parkchat Yellowstone gets temporary leader amid search for Sholly replacement | Powell Tribune share.google/tGW2bbuoB8Zl...
Yellowstone gets temporary leader amid search for Sholly replacement - Powell Tribune
As the National Park Service searches for a permanent replacement for outgoing Yellowstone Superintendent Cam Sholly, the agency has tabbed a veteran parks staffer to temporarily fill the role. …
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Ready for a hike? Yesterday, we did our “last big” hike of the season. Seemed much longer than it was, and climbed higher than we have all summer.
Terry Tempest Williams: Citizens & scientists with the @biologicaldiversity.org will request protection for the (eared grebes) under the ESA this winter. The grebe is one of Utah’s local heroes, revered and grieved as it nears the quicksand of extinction www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/o...
Opinion | What Are We Doing to Our World of Wonder?
What if 50 years from now, having destroyed the habitat for the creatures around us, we are plagued by an inconsolable loneliness?
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Montanans are singular in their love for public lands. So I went to the state to ask: Can you still feel the aftermath of DOGE on federal lands? I left wondering: Does it matter that the Dem running for Congress is a smokejumper who publicly fought DOGE?
DOGE Upended His Work. Does Montana Care Enough to Vote for Him?
Democrat Sam Forstag was a smokejumper with the Forest Service when Trump took a sledgehammer to the federal workforce.
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#parkchat YNP North Entrance Road Reconstruction Plans Progressing – Sheridan Media share.google/bXnMstlLO9D7...
YNP North Entrance Road Reconstruction Plans Progressing
The National Park Service (NPS) signed a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) and associated Wetlands/Floodplains Statement of Findings (SOF) to reconstruct the North Entrance Road between Mammoth...
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oh. #parkchat Yosemite wildfire explodes to over 1,000 acres near iconic waterfall share.google/cgnUeme5qSVy...
Yosemite wildfire explodes, reaching over 1,000 acres near Wawona
The Dome Fire is burning in deep wilderness with no containment.
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Park Visitors let them know how much we value our parks #parkchat www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Trump asked Americans to help him whitewash national parks. They revolted instead
The DOI placed QR codes in national parks, inviting visitors to report content deemed ‘negative about either past or living Americans’. Instead, it became a mode of resistance
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B.C. salmon are dying from a toxic tire chemical, 6PPD-Q | The Narwhal thenarwhal.ca/bc-coho-salm...
B.C. salmon are dying from a toxic tire chemical, 6PPD-Q | The Narwhal
B.C. salmon researchers are now testing waterways to look for 6PPD-Q, a chemical used in tires which can be lethal to coho salmon
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Pro-tip: watch those lens caps #parkchat What was found among 20k pieces of trash removed from Yellowstone hydrothermal areas share.google/7iUF0JtzdfvW...
What was found among 20k pieces of trash removed from Yellowstone hydrothermal areas
What staff find while cleaning out hydrothermal areas at Yellowstone National Park can be surprising, and they shared all of it, from common to funny to just plain weird.
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Attn #ParkChat It’s an all out assault on #publiclands. You know to do. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump administration blocks $25 million in funding for national parks
The Interior Department did not give approval to more than 130 partnership agreements covering activities like tending to sled dogs and preventing damage to burial mounds.
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Donald Trump’s war on … dinosaurs. Read of the day from @annackramer.bsky.social of @washingtonsun.bsky.social. 🦕 washingtonsun.com/climate-envi...
How Trump Unleashed an Existential Fight Over America's Dinosaurs
In Utah, Trump resurfaced a decades-long dispute over how to protect some of the country’s crown jewels.
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Now: The Center for Biological Diversity and other conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration's unlawful decimation in July of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Southern Utah. Read more: biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
Interview with Tiernan President and CEO of the National Parks Conservation Association. #parkchat www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
National parks under strain from Trump's construction projects and political pressure
Americans continue to flock to the national parks, with more than 320 million visitors in the last year alone. But that broad appeal is facing new political pressures, from orders to revise exhibits t...
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From our place, a little east of Seattle. The prediction was for clouds, the moon came out just in time #parkchat
A win, at least for now. The Trump administration has paused all border construction inside Big Bend National Park following intense bipartisan backlash. CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott says he is heading to the park for an on-the-ground evaluation before deciding how to proceed.
Chinook Salmon Are Returning to This River After Nearly 50 Years | Sierra Club share.google/EOPEoEEoYVBo...
Chinook Salmon Are Returning to This River After Nearly 50 Years
Cowlitz Tribe helps reintroduce the largest Pacific salmon species to watershed inside Mount St. Helens monument
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The old pier at the very north end of the Semiahmoo peninsula (Tounge Point) across from Blain, WA is a good place to see Purple Martins up close.
