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
A good excuse to yell "spikey one!" at your phone screen.
if birds aren't dinosaurs, neither is T. rex #paleontology #science
YouTube video by Astrid Lundberg
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February 17, 2026 at 1:18 AM
A good excuse to yell "spikey one!" at your phone screen.
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February 17, 2026 at 12:50 AM
I insist on this album being played at rock out volume. It seems like it shouldn't work, but it does.
February 16, 2026 at 6:51 PM
I insist on this album being played at rock out volume. It seems like it shouldn't work, but it does.
The murals here are top notch.
February 16, 2026 at 4:58 PM
The murals here are top notch.
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it’s pretty wild how much vegetation the recent cold snap in Florida has killed
coupled with drought + high winds that uhhhh can’t be good for wildfire potential
coupled with drought + high winds that uhhhh can’t be good for wildfire potential
February 16, 2026 at 3:15 PM
it’s pretty wild how much vegetation the recent cold snap in Florida has killed
coupled with drought + high winds that uhhhh can’t be good for wildfire potential
coupled with drought + high winds that uhhhh can’t be good for wildfire potential
I listened to this Townsend’s solitaire's call yesterday. Wonderful highs and lows greeting the world.
February 16, 2026 at 3:18 PM
I listened to this Townsend’s solitaire's call yesterday. Wonderful highs and lows greeting the world.
Whoever inherits my Google Maps "good campsites" list and labeled foraging spots, you're welcome. It is my life's work.
February 14, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Whoever inherits my Google Maps "good campsites" list and labeled foraging spots, you're welcome. It is my life's work.
I'm having my mid-February yearning for the high country. I want to eat raspberries, hike in the aspen, and set up a hammock.
February 13, 2026 at 11:41 PM
I'm having my mid-February yearning for the high country. I want to eat raspberries, hike in the aspen, and set up a hammock.
Snowtography informed forestry article from The Nature Conservancy. Southwest Colorado is home to one of the first attempts to apply snow smart forestry within real world limitations.
Measures of Snow
The Nature Conservancy explores how forest thinning and prescribed burning affects western snowpack, water supply and forest resilience.
www.nature.org
February 13, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Snowtography informed forestry article from The Nature Conservancy. Southwest Colorado is home to one of the first attempts to apply snow smart forestry within real world limitations.
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There is a sandbar in the WI River with a huge old Oak tree where the Bald Eagles like to hang out. It's leaning quite a bit, so I don't know how many more years it has. The sand isn't the greatest base, but it grew very tall in the middle if the river.
#birds #Oaks #BaldEagles #ThickTrunkTuesday
#birds #Oaks #BaldEagles #ThickTrunkTuesday
February 11, 2026 at 1:29 AM
There is a sandbar in the WI River with a huge old Oak tree where the Bald Eagles like to hang out. It's leaning quite a bit, so I don't know how many more years it has. The sand isn't the greatest base, but it grew very tall in the middle if the river.
#birds #Oaks #BaldEagles #ThickTrunkTuesday
#birds #Oaks #BaldEagles #ThickTrunkTuesday
Another day, another sandhill. I cannot help but love the individuality and beauty of these birds.
February 11, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Another day, another sandhill. I cannot help but love the individuality and beauty of these birds.
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#sandhillcrane
#milford, #MI
#birds
#photography
#birdphotography
#BirdWatching
#birdsofbluesky
#nature
#wildlife
#wildlifephotography
#milford, #MI
#birds
#photography
#birdphotography
#BirdWatching
#birdsofbluesky
#nature
#wildlife
#wildlifephotography
February 10, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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For #ThickTrunkTuesday, the champion western redcedar known as the Duncan Cedar. Location is near Kalaloch on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. The tree was clinging to life in 2011 when I took these pics, and apparently it's still alive. See alt text.
#forestry #trees #OlympicPeninsula
#forestry #trees #OlympicPeninsula
February 10, 2026 at 2:17 PM
For #ThickTrunkTuesday, the champion western redcedar known as the Duncan Cedar. Location is near Kalaloch on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. The tree was clinging to life in 2011 when I took these pics, and apparently it's still alive. See alt text.
#forestry #trees #OlympicPeninsula
#forestry #trees #OlympicPeninsula
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OK, nobody will care about this, but here we are.
I'm a giant fruit tree nerd. I'd love to grow quince, but where I am we have a lot of a disease called cedar-quince rust that'd kill them without an extreme spray regime I want to do.
Quince is the only member of the genus Cydonia.
I'm a giant fruit tree nerd. I'd love to grow quince, but where I am we have a lot of a disease called cedar-quince rust that'd kill them without an extreme spray regime I want to do.
Quince is the only member of the genus Cydonia.
February 8, 2026 at 11:56 PM
OK, nobody will care about this, but here we are.
I'm a giant fruit tree nerd. I'd love to grow quince, but where I am we have a lot of a disease called cedar-quince rust that'd kill them without an extreme spray regime I want to do.
Quince is the only member of the genus Cydonia.
I'm a giant fruit tree nerd. I'd love to grow quince, but where I am we have a lot of a disease called cedar-quince rust that'd kill them without an extreme spray regime I want to do.
Quince is the only member of the genus Cydonia.
Satisfying weekend exploring around Moab and the Colorado River.
I drove Chicken Corners for the first time and hiked around past where the road ends. Temperatures were concerningly wonderful.
I drove Chicken Corners for the first time and hiked around past where the road ends. Temperatures were concerningly wonderful.
February 8, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Satisfying weekend exploring around Moab and the Colorado River.
I drove Chicken Corners for the first time and hiked around past where the road ends. Temperatures were concerningly wonderful.
I drove Chicken Corners for the first time and hiked around past where the road ends. Temperatures were concerningly wonderful.
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Did this paper need to be written? Unfortunately yes, it did. Trees don't collectively anticipate solar eclipses. Occam had something to say about this kind of problem. 🧪🌲🌳
Eclipse of reason: debunking speculative anticipatory behavior in trees
Advancing plant behavior research requires robust experimental design, falsifiable
hypotheses, sufficient replication, and stringent controls. A recent study claims
that Picea abies trees collectively...
www.cell.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Did this paper need to be written? Unfortunately yes, it did. Trees don't collectively anticipate solar eclipses. Occam had something to say about this kind of problem. 🧪🌲🌳
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Shiprock is made up of of the eroded igneous remains of a volcanic neck. This feature has both religious and historical significance to the Navajo people. Navajo Nation near the town of Shiprock, New Mexico, 10 May 2018.
February 6, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Shiprock is made up of of the eroded igneous remains of a volcanic neck. This feature has both religious and historical significance to the Navajo people. Navajo Nation near the town of Shiprock, New Mexico, 10 May 2018.
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Cypress trees in a floodplain forest. The vertical knee roots that surround them may help with stabilization in the loose soil as well as gas exchange. Congaree National Park, South Carolina, 04 Jun 2013. #NationalParks
February 5, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Cypress trees in a floodplain forest. The vertical knee roots that surround them may help with stabilization in the loose soil as well as gas exchange. Congaree National Park, South Carolina, 04 Jun 2013. #NationalParks
Google Photos brought up that I saved this meme five years ago. This one goes out to all the park rangers.
February 6, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Google Photos brought up that I saved this meme five years ago. This one goes out to all the park rangers.
And on a related note...
February 5, 2026 at 11:57 PM
And on a related note...
"The fires were inside a cave, which means they almost certainly weren’t natural. Someone, either Homo erectus or Homo heidelbergensis, was tending them."
Fire didn’t just give us cooking and warmth. For a million years, it gave us burns—and burns shaped our genes, our skin, and our capacity to heal. #HumanEvolution #Anthropology #EvolutionaryBiology www.anthropology.net/p/the-cost-o...
The Cost of Fire: How Burns Shaped the Human Body
When Evolution Meets Combustion
www.anthropology.net
February 5, 2026 at 11:51 PM
"The fires were inside a cave, which means they almost certainly weren’t natural. Someone, either Homo erectus or Homo heidelbergensis, was tending them."
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Sound up! Did this video a few weeks back when there were around 30,000 snow geese at a wildlife refuge in NW MO. Here in a few weeks that number will be significantly higher #Birds #NatureLovers #Wildlife #BlueSkyPhotography
February 4, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Sound up! Did this video a few weeks back when there were around 30,000 snow geese at a wildlife refuge in NW MO. Here in a few weeks that number will be significantly higher #Birds #NatureLovers #Wildlife #BlueSkyPhotography
Working my way through the first season of Andor. It feels like the writers watched The Expanse.
February 4, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Working my way through the first season of Andor. It feels like the writers watched The Expanse.
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Hadn't looked at this before. Visualization of the lower end of Lake Powell at the historic minimum on April 13, 2023 (light blue), and at dead pool (dark blue). Glen Canyon Dam in lower left. grandcanyon.usgs.gov/apps/LakePow...
February 3, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Hadn't looked at this before. Visualization of the lower end of Lake Powell at the historic minimum on April 13, 2023 (light blue), and at dead pool (dark blue). Glen Canyon Dam in lower left. grandcanyon.usgs.gov/apps/LakePow...