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Author: #RockyMountain Field Guide: a Trailside Natural History (2024, @MtneersBooks). #TreesInTrouble (2020). Cascadia Revealed (2017/21). Pantheist, dad.

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It’s out! 1,123 species. 1,077 gorgeous illustrations. 225,000 well-written words, 42 ounces. The number of laughs, stunning discoveries, and heartbreaking threats is up to you, dear reader. Read it to each other in camp. #RockyMountain Field Guide: a Trailside #NaturalHistory. 1

[🦋 @danmathewspnw.bsky.social @DanMathewsPNW]

Are trees the climate solution? This Thursday evening at 7:OO, at Powell's on Burnside, Lauren Oakes will share her observations and interviews with people working to reforest and afforest the earth. I'll discuss with her, and we will both sign our books. I hope you can come!

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@ryankatzrosene yeah. much uncertainty, much risk. thanks

[Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell]

Further evidence (as if any were needed) that the fossil fuel industry is plotting a coup of Earth's climate if Trump is reelected.
https://t.co/GP5YhxvGJE

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Anyone in America who tells you Trump will be better for our economy needs this retweeted for them immediately.

[🦋 @danmathewspnw.bsky.social @DanMathewsPNW]

@ryankatzrosene Please interpret map D. As I read it, the tropical rainbelt is shifting southward from Caribbean nations (drier) to the Amazon and Congo basins (wetter) which would be contrary to what you write at #9

[Tzeporah Berman @Tzeporah]

Such an excellent illustration of how inefficient fossil fuels are and how manufactured our dependency actually is.

Close to half of all shipping traffic worldwide is just moving fossil fuels around

[🦋 @danmathewspnw.bsky.social @DanMathewsPNW]

Hey read this. I made it a gift so you don't need an account to read it. I'm so sick of all the smarmy, lying, self-pitying bitching about IRS enforcement. The Cyber Sleuth https://t.co/EByocuIHqw

[Ami Dar @AmiDar]

When I was growing up in the 1960’s and 70’s a statement like this was inconceivable, and a vast majority of Israelis would have celebrated it. And now, here it is (and has been for years). Are there risks? Of course. But that’s what leaders are for.

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from @MtneersBooks. Re #GlacierNationalPark #RockyMountainNationalPark #Yellowstone #GrandTeton #BlackCanyon #MesaVerde #Colorado #Utah #Wyoming #Montana #Idaho #NewMexico #Washington #Oregon 2/3

[🦋 @danmathewspnw.bsky.social @DanMathewsPNW]

It’s out! 1,123 species. 1,077 gorgeous illustrations. 225,000 well-written words, 42 ounces. The number of laughs, stunning discoveries, and heartbreaking threats is up to you, dear reader. Read it to each other in camp. #RockyMountain Field Guide: a Trailside #NaturalHistory. 1

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#Wasatch #Sawatch #WindRiverRange #SanJuans #SangreDeCristo #ElkMountains #Sawtooths #FrontRange #MedicineBow #Bitterroot #Wallowa #Uinta #Beartooth #Absaroka #Okanogan #MadisonRange #GallatinRange #Jemez #LostRiverRange #Lemhi #SelkirkMountains 3/3

[David Fickling @davidfickling]

How did the US invent solar power and dominate it for 60 years, before giving it up to China over the past decade?

The answer is, IMO, quite different to the stories we have told ourselves in recent years. And it has important lessons for the future.🧵

https://t.co/uj1bwFgYZA

[Prof Julia Steinberger @JKSteinberger]

thank god thank god thank god
Too little, too late. But international-law based sanity. Finally.
Thanks to the civil servants who made this happen. THANK YOU.

[David Zipper @DavidZipper]

The Economist just published a deeply-researched story about car bloat, and it's very, very damning:

"For every life that the heaviest 1% of SUVs and trucks save, there are more than a dozen lives lost in other vehicles."

Well worth your time: https://t.co/eHalcNkiBX

[Extinction Rebellion Global @ExtinctionR]

The new @Starbucks CEO, Brian Niccol, is going to commute to the office 3 days a week by private jet.

Don't forget to take your reusable cup to the coffee shop!

https://t.co/OpYWC8qQR0

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[🦋 @danmathewspnw.bsky.social @DanMathewsPNW]

Super excited! I'll soon see an advance copy of my new book, #RockyMountain #FieldGuide, to be published October 1 by @MtneersBooks . It's got everything, from #SantaFe north to #GlacierNationalPark. #wildlife #trees #geology #lichens #mushrooms #wildplants #naturalhistory

[Zeke Lunder ~ The Lookout @wildland_zko]

You can't sell dry forests as a 'tool to decarbonize infestment portfolios' unless you are willing to do the work of making them fire resilient again. Any many of us who work in the woods are not sure this is even possible at this point. #YourCarbonIsGettingSmoked 8/x

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

If you think a nightmarish, unconstitutional round up of innocent people, merely suspected of being enemies of the state, can’t happen in the U.S., then you’re forgetting that it already has.

I was among them, along with my entire family and community.

[🦋 @danmathewspnw.bsky.social @DanMathewsPNW]

@karst_justine nice piece... but what percent of globe actually is lichen-dominated? I think a good number for reindeer moss tundra should be easy to get by analyzing spectra in imagery. And then we have the 12% guesstimate for coverage by biocrusts, which are partly #lichen.