Blue Collar Bear With a Jesuit Education. Approach with Caution. Wilderness will provide the genetics for earth’s rejuvenation long after humans become extinct
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Mostly clear, comfortable and breezy conditions continue this evening. High pressure returns and will produce a quick warming trend Thursday and Friday. Showers and thunderstorms are possible this weekend, especially across southwest Montana. nbcmontana.com/weather/forec…
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Photo challenge, show us an image with leading lines!
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A fledgling Blue Jay waits for a parent to bring over food.
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The Gardner River joining the Yellowstone. The national park boundary is right at the confluence.
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See how green that is? It won't be for too much longer (except the sage).
Lamar Valley from the trail to Cache Creek. The end of spring in Yellowstone is hard to beat.
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Imagine evacuating your home from a wildfire, right when the fire retardant plane flies over...
A fast moving fire near Spokane is forcing level 3 evacs right now. At least 5 homes destroyed and 500 threatened.
Incredible picture by @tylertjomsland at the @SpokesmanReview.
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A moose encounters a herd of cows on the South Dakota prairie and joins them for a while
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Glacier Bay National Park truly amazing
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May 15
Animal husbandry at its finest
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Since we leave the calves with their mothers to nurse, they don’t associate us with food and can get a little feral. I prevent this by sorting the young calves every day into a smaller pen and smothering them with human attention. It’s not too hard to find volunteers for this job!
#cowcalfcontactdairy #cowwithcalfdairy #dairywelfare #calves
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Jun 14
We're still alive, in case you were curious.
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My painting PRAIRIE STORM
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The baby Avocets were out today!
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No vote. No law. No debate. Just a policy manual, rewritten in the dark — and if successful, some of the last wild land in America will lose its only protection. 🌳 ⛰️ 🦌
The Trump administration isn't waiting for Congress. They're rewriting the rulebook instead.
That rulebook has a name. It’s called the Wilderness Act. It’s protected places like Yellowstone and Yosemite since 1964. Repealing it would require an act of Congress. So instead, they’re rewriting the internal manuals that define what it actually means on the ground.
The law stays. The protection disappears.
Right now, when a tree falls across a trail in a designated wilderness area, a ranger picks up a hand saw. Not because it's easy. Because silence is the rule. Because a grizzly bear needs quiet to survive. Because noise means conflict, and conflict in bear country means a bear that doesn't make it - and cubs that won't survive the winter alone.
FOIA records show the Forest Service is already quietly moving to allow chainsaws in designated wilderness. Nearly 100 conservation organizations are sounding the alarm. And the internal manuals governing the NPS, BLM, and Fish and Wildlife are all now under review. More than 80% of National Park land is on the table.
For six decades, a fallen tree meant one thing: you work with the land on its own terms. That's not just a rule. That's a philosophy. And they're erasing it one manual at a time, while the clock on the comment period quietly ticks down.
Who decided the Wilderness Act was just a suggestion?
#DemsUnited
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The boys are together again. Eight mule deer bucks walk through winter wheat near Zimmerman Park in Billings, Montana.
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