This badger wasn’t photographed in a zoo or a wildlife refuge.
It was photographed earlier this month in the Trout Creek Mountains of Oregon.
This is also the landscape being considered for a new lithium mine.
Every mine begins as someone else’s habitat.
The Atlanta Braves lost to the Giants today, 3-2. Sale-6 IP, 94 PC, 1 ER, 10K, 1 BB, 8H. Harris RBI-White, Riley RBI-Olson. The Braves welcome the Cardinals on 6/30/26 at 7:15 pm, EDT @ Truist. #BravesCountry
@ChoppinBravos Once again, Elder is great when he's on & bad when he's not. It's a reliability deficit. We can't have that in the Playoffs and hope others can cover for him.
Scientists are building a backup copy of every endangered animal in America, cell by cell.
This week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and a genetics company announced a plan to collect, freeze, and fully sequence living cells from all 2,300+ species on the country’s endangered list.
Living tissue. Reproductive cells. Complete genomes. Stored like a seed vault, but for animals.
The idea is simple: if a species disappears, its biological blueprint survives, helping conservation efforts today and potential future restoration.
It’s an extraordinary scientific achievement.
But it also highlights a difficult reality.
We can preserve the code of life. We still can’t replace the ecosystems that keep it alive.
[Source: TIME, June 25, 2026. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Colossal Biosciences launch BioVault for endangered species.]
Wings!
Flight training can't come soon enough for this wee one! Happy to report all four chicks are confirmed this morning along with Sea Rocket and Imani.
📸: Chicago Piping Plovers (2026 Montrose chick, June 27, 2026)
“Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.”
Christopher Reeve
Edmund Charles Tarbell - Child with Boat; Girl with Sailboat, 1899.