Nick Mustoe
@nickmustoe.bsky.social
Interested in all things public lands and forestry. Avid reader on the topic of wildfire. Wildlife observer. Liverpool fan. Opinions I present here are in a personal capacity.
🎯 Dolores, CO
🎯 Dolores, CO
Why, in the year 2025, are people double spacing between sentences?
November 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Why, in the year 2025, are people double spacing between sentences?
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Looking down Bear Creek, past rows of thirteen thousand foot peaks, southwest of Silverton, Colorado. #colorado #scenery #photography
November 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Looking down Bear Creek, past rows of thirteen thousand foot peaks, southwest of Silverton, Colorado. #colorado #scenery #photography
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The Sandhill Crane numbers were higher at the surrounding farms near the WI River this weekend. My guess is we are near peak. I saw at least 3000 on Saturday resulting in very memorable crane joy! I arrived there late, abt 9:30am, and the birds were just taking off for the day. #birds #Sandhills
November 18, 2025 at 1:26 AM
The Sandhill Crane numbers were higher at the surrounding farms near the WI River this weekend. My guess is we are near peak. I saw at least 3000 on Saturday resulting in very memorable crane joy! I arrived there late, abt 9:30am, and the birds were just taking off for the day. #birds #Sandhills
It is insane that some subscriptions require you to provide a reason to unsubscribe.
November 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
It is insane that some subscriptions require you to provide a reason to unsubscribe.
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Archaeologists discover 1,500-year-old reindeer #trap and other artifacts 'melting out of the ice' in Norway's mountains
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
#Norway #archaeology
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
#Norway #archaeology
Archaeologists discover 1,500-year-old reindeer trap and other artifacts 'melting out of the ice' in Norway's mountains
The well-preserved reindeer trap may be unique in Europe.
www.livescience.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Archaeologists discover 1,500-year-old reindeer #trap and other artifacts 'melting out of the ice' in Norway's mountains
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
#Norway #archaeology
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
#Norway #archaeology
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Natural Bridges National Monument
November 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Natural Bridges National Monument
Me: "What ultralight backpack should I buy?"
The Internet: "The only acceptable option is a custom 'KS-Yamatomichi-9000,' handmade by a hermit who sews ten a year. The backorder is two decades, and he only accepts payment in golden eagle feathers."
The Internet: "The only acceptable option is a custom 'KS-Yamatomichi-9000,' handmade by a hermit who sews ten a year. The backorder is two decades, and he only accepts payment in golden eagle feathers."
November 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Me: "What ultralight backpack should I buy?"
The Internet: "The only acceptable option is a custom 'KS-Yamatomichi-9000,' handmade by a hermit who sews ten a year. The backorder is two decades, and he only accepts payment in golden eagle feathers."
The Internet: "The only acceptable option is a custom 'KS-Yamatomichi-9000,' handmade by a hermit who sews ten a year. The backorder is two decades, and he only accepts payment in golden eagle feathers."
Never know what you might find in the desert of Utah.
November 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Never know what you might find in the desert of Utah.
I usually bike commute to work but had to walk the other day. Multiple friends reached out to my partner offering use of their cars for my safety.
![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
November 15, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I usually bike commute to work but had to walk the other day. Multiple friends reached out to my partner offering use of their cars for my safety.
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The northern lights from Bevier, Mo. tonight!
November 12, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The northern lights from Bevier, Mo. tonight!
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BLACK SUN: Amorphous Flocks of #Starlings Swell Above the Danish Marshlands - amazing #murmuration #photography by Søren Solkær
Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...
Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
BLACK SUN: Amorphous Flocks of #Starlings Swell Above the Danish Marshlands - amazing #murmuration #photography by Søren Solkær
Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...
Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...
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In case you missed it, my last lecture on Oak Origins, from Miami University, is posted online. This iteration focuses on reproduction and migration, the oak tree of life, and the effects of oak diversity on fungal and insect diversity in the forest. Please share!
www.youtube.com/live/mRCrGFn...
www.youtube.com/live/mRCrGFn...
Belk Lecture on Oak Origins
YouTube video by Hefner Museum of Natural History
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
In case you missed it, my last lecture on Oak Origins, from Miami University, is posted online. This iteration focuses on reproduction and migration, the oak tree of life, and the effects of oak diversity on fungal and insect diversity in the forest. Please share!
www.youtube.com/live/mRCrGFn...
www.youtube.com/live/mRCrGFn...
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Today’s local fieldwork was colder but older! I think we may have found some 300 yr old beech and sweet gum! Will be going back to this site in the future, some nice oak and Nyssa as well.
November 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Today’s local fieldwork was colder but older! I think we may have found some 300 yr old beech and sweet gum! Will be going back to this site in the future, some nice oak and Nyssa as well.
I have unintentionally developed a theme in my reading this year, boat books. I'm about halfway through Into the Ice. It is pretty good so far.
November 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I have unintentionally developed a theme in my reading this year, boat books. I'm about halfway through Into the Ice. It is pretty good so far.
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Charlie Harper mosaic "Web of Life" and detail (Io moth, Pacific starfish, woodcock, bullfrog, redbeard sponge), 81 organisms in total. Miami University Department of Biology this past week.
November 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Charlie Harper mosaic "Web of Life" and detail (Io moth, Pacific starfish, woodcock, bullfrog, redbeard sponge), 81 organisms in total. Miami University Department of Biology this past week.
On a hike the other day, we noticed the cryptobiotic soil crust seemed to have a friend growing on it. A quick iNaturalist check shows it as cerebral fishscale lichen. Which is the best species name I've seen in a while. Here's to you cerebral fishscale lichen.
November 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
On a hike the other day, we noticed the cryptobiotic soil crust seemed to have a friend growing on it. A quick iNaturalist check shows it as cerebral fishscale lichen. Which is the best species name I've seen in a while. Here's to you cerebral fishscale lichen.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
A black and white art film coming of age story, but on the Death Star.
hoping this upcoming star wars: starfighter movie is just top gun but star wars
ironically what makes star wars stuff best is when it is 'something else, but also star wars'
e.g. Andor, a British political thriller but also Star Wars
the Mandalorian, an episode-of-the-week Western but also Star Wars (when it was good)
e.g. Andor, a British political thriller but also Star Wars
the Mandalorian, an episode-of-the-week Western but also Star Wars (when it was good)
November 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
A black and white art film coming of age story, but on the Death Star.
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You might see this and wonder why Christmas trees were shipped from Vermont to Chicago, not nearby Wisconsin or Michigan. However, as far as I can tell the business involves even more long-distance shipping today (Oregon and North Carolina are top producers by far, MI and WI are 3rd and 6th).
Nov. 9, 1925: The Christmas tree season is already in full swing in Ludlow, Vt., where thousands of spruce trees, tied in bundles of three, await the arrival of freight cars to be shipped to Chicago and points west.
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
You might see this and wonder why Christmas trees were shipped from Vermont to Chicago, not nearby Wisconsin or Michigan. However, as far as I can tell the business involves even more long-distance shipping today (Oregon and North Carolina are top producers by far, MI and WI are 3rd and 6th).
A weekend in Utah won't fix what's wrong with you, but it will make you consider how beautiful canyons are and how apathetic the desert is to your existence.
November 9, 2025 at 4:14 AM
A weekend in Utah won't fix what's wrong with you, but it will make you consider how beautiful canyons are and how apathetic the desert is to your existence.
The book is full of fun facts, really.
from the unmarred dead body of the whale, you may scrape off with your hand an infinitely thin, transparent substance
November 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM
The book is full of fun facts, really.
Some beaver handiwork on Stoner Creek. A welcome sign after 10,000 acres of wildfire on both sides of the creek this summer.
November 3, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Some beaver handiwork on Stoner Creek. A welcome sign after 10,000 acres of wildfire on both sides of the creek this summer.
My kind of people know their hardiness zones.
Every since we moved to the country, and have open space, fruit trees have become like pokemon cards. I'm trying to assemble a representative sample from every distinct fruit that grows in 7b. Then, we will create Mutants.
November 2, 2025 at 3:41 AM
My kind of people know their hardiness zones.
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Happy Halloween from this aspen cemetery. 🎃 🦫
October 31, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Happy Halloween from this aspen cemetery. 🎃 🦫
I spend more and more of my day wondering "who actually wants this?"
Why would someone pay $20k for a robot controlled by a human in a remote location to do things more slowly and clumsily when the median wage for a maid or housekeeper is $33k per year, which is typically spread across 10-20 households?
October 30, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I spend more and more of my day wondering "who actually wants this?"