Shelby Majors
@playingwfire.bsky.social
Fire practitioner * Land management * Fan of travel, music, good food and drink, and time well spent
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The Lake States Fire Science Consortium is accepting proposals for undergraduate internship experiences which address issues associated with northern fire-dependent ecosystems 🔥Proposals are due February 24 - learn more at http://lakestatesfiresci.net/interns_2026.html
February 5, 2026 at 5:50 PM
The Lake States Fire Science Consortium is accepting proposals for undergraduate internship experiences which address issues associated with northern fire-dependent ecosystems 🔥Proposals are due February 24 - learn more at http://lakestatesfiresci.net/interns_2026.html
January 31, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Can someone please explain to Trump that Greenland has a lot of ice, not ICE.
Trump vows tariffs on eight European nations over Greenland - www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Trump vows tariffs on eight European nations over Greenland - www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Trump vows tariffs on eight European nations over Greenland
President Donald Trump on Saturday vowed to implement a wave of increasing tariffs on European allies until the United States is allowed to buy Greenland, escalating a row over the future of Denmark's...
www.reuters.com
January 17, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Can someone please explain to Trump that Greenland has a lot of ice, not ICE.
Trump vows tariffs on eight European nations over Greenland - www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Trump vows tariffs on eight European nations over Greenland - www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Brooke Rollins: "We've run over 1,000 simulations. It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing. So there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money."
January 14, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Brooke Rollins: "We've run over 1,000 simulations. It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing. So there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money."
And another day where the President continues to amplify the big lie of a stolen election, imply he will change the constitution to run a third term, and weighing using military force to seize Greenland, an autonomous territory of a NATO ally. Among other things.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
January 5, 2026 (Monday)
Five years ago, on January 6, 2021, more than 2,000 rioters stormed the U.S.
open.substack.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:46 AM
And another day where the President continues to amplify the big lie of a stolen election, imply he will change the constitution to run a third term, and weighing using military force to seize Greenland, an autonomous territory of a NATO ally. Among other things.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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The @nytimes.com Lost Science series continues. Here's my Q&A with a scientist who was studying how wildfire smoke threatens human health when the EPA decided that her research was no longer a funding priority. Gift link: nyti.ms/4jhpw14
December 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The @nytimes.com Lost Science series continues. Here's my Q&A with a scientist who was studying how wildfire smoke threatens human health when the EPA decided that her research was no longer a funding priority. Gift link: nyti.ms/4jhpw14
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For 2026, media could commit to not laundering the administration’s talking points in their headlines. The EU bans were not triggered by censorship but about misleading X users.
December 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
For 2026, media could commit to not laundering the administration’s talking points in their headlines. The EU bans were not triggered by censorship but about misleading X users.
018- A History of Rome Christmas
Podcast Episode · The History of Rome · 02/28/2010 · 13m
podcasts.apple.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Please share. Calling all bog lovers and peat aficionados - please drop a thumbs up or comment on this talk, and show TEDx why bogs are the best. My great hope is that we can drum up more bog champions in this world. With love and appreciation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWt9...
Bogs are real superheroes, cast as villains | Dr. Merritt Turetsky | TEDxBoulder
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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December 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Please share. Calling all bog lovers and peat aficionados - please drop a thumbs up or comment on this talk, and show TEDx why bogs are the best. My great hope is that we can drum up more bog champions in this world. With love and appreciation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWt9...
“It takes all of us, meaning state, local, federal, Tribal, NGOs, contractors, all the rest—no one organization can do the preventative work or the response work.”
insideclimatenews.org/news/1612202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/1612202...
Hope—and Many Fears—Follow in the Wake of Trump's Plan to Transform Wildland Firefighting - Inside Climate News
The Departments of Interior and Agriculture announced a new U.S. Wildland Fire Service. But layoffs, confusion and budget cuts have sparked doubts.
insideclimatenews.org
December 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
“It takes all of us, meaning state, local, federal, Tribal, NGOs, contractors, all the rest—no one organization can do the preventative work or the response work.”
insideclimatenews.org/news/1612202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/1612202...
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December 14, 2025 at 4:21 AM
A well written piece-
“Once you create an agency that’s only focussed on fire, life and safety become the main focus, and any notion of fire as a multipurpose ecological tool loses its value,”
What America Can Learn from Its Largest Wildfire of the Year www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
“Once you create an agency that’s only focussed on fire, life and safety become the main focus, and any notion of fire as a multipurpose ecological tool loses its value,”
What America Can Learn from Its Largest Wildfire of the Year www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
What America Can Learn from Its Largest Wildfire of the Year
When Dragon Bravo ignited, in Grand Canyon National Park, officials decided to let it burn. Then the fire spread out of control.
www.newyorker.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
A well written piece-
“Once you create an agency that’s only focussed on fire, life and safety become the main focus, and any notion of fire as a multipurpose ecological tool loses its value,”
What America Can Learn from Its Largest Wildfire of the Year www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
“Once you create an agency that’s only focussed on fire, life and safety become the main focus, and any notion of fire as a multipurpose ecological tool loses its value,”
What America Can Learn from Its Largest Wildfire of the Year www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
