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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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
www.youtube.com
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...
www.usda.gov
August 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Satellites and drone swarms: The new high-tech quest to fight wildfires
August 1, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Satellites and drone swarms: The new high-tech quest to fight wildfires
From 2018 but relevant and revisit following a work meeting were it was discussed that hope is not a plan.“Strategy is not a science; it is an art of big-picture thought, communication, and constant adaptation.”
warroom.armywarcollege.edu/articles/hop...
warroom.armywarcollege.edu/articles/hop...
HOPE IS NOT 'A' STRATEGY: IT'S THE ONLY STRATEGY
In "Hope is not a Strategy; It is the Only Strategy," Jeremy Weber shows how American grand strategy has depended on aspiration to drive change and overcome wicked problems. Today's strategy discourse...
warroom.armywarcollege.edu
July 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
From 2018 but relevant and revisit following a work meeting were it was discussed that hope is not a plan.“Strategy is not a science; it is an art of big-picture thought, communication, and constant adaptation.”
warroom.armywarcollege.edu/articles/hop...
warroom.armywarcollege.edu/articles/hop...
A new era of floods has arrived. America isn’t prepared.
July 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
A new era of floods has arrived. America isn’t prepared.
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Grand Canyon Lodge, the town of Jasper in Jasper NP, Sperry Chalet in Glacier NP -- these iconic structures were built in a different climate & not designed to survive the turbo-charged fires of the 21st century. We can only expect to see more of the same. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
An explosive Grand Canyon wildfire brings terror, loss and tough questions: ‘It came like a freight train’
The decision to let a small blaze burn – before it suddenly erupted – has drawn scrutiny. Now those who love the remote North Rim are reckoning with the destruction
www.theguardian.com
July 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Grand Canyon Lodge, the town of Jasper in Jasper NP, Sperry Chalet in Glacier NP -- these iconic structures were built in a different climate & not designed to survive the turbo-charged fires of the 21st century. We can only expect to see more of the same. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Area burned in Canada for 2025 is now at 5.6 M ha exceeding the total for the entire 2024 fire season. This fire season is not as bad as 2023 that had 9.37 M ha burned by July 12, 2023. However, 2025 is a very active year with 365 fires out of control and 2 months still left in the fire season.
July 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Area burned in Canada for 2025 is now at 5.6 M ha exceeding the total for the entire 2024 fire season. This fire season is not as bad as 2023 that had 9.37 M ha burned by July 12, 2023. However, 2025 is a very active year with 365 fires out of control and 2 months still left in the fire season.
This map visualizes the 250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in the Senate budget reconciliation package.
Map and analysis by The Wilderness Society using source data from BLM, USFS, USGS, NPS, and SENR reconciliation bill text as of June 16th 2025.
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
Map and analysis by The Wilderness Society using source data from BLM, USFS, USGS, NPS, and SENR reconciliation bill text as of June 16th 2025.
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
Tell your senators to kill the current reconciliation bill!
The Senate reconciliation package is a disturbing giveaway that will mandate the “disposal” of public lands across the western United States.
act.wilderness.org
June 20, 2025 at 2:24 AM
This map visualizes the 250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in the Senate budget reconciliation package.
Map and analysis by The Wilderness Society using source data from BLM, USFS, USGS, NPS, and SENR reconciliation bill text as of June 16th 2025.
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
Map and analysis by The Wilderness Society using source data from BLM, USFS, USGS, NPS, and SENR reconciliation bill text as of June 16th 2025.
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
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To save our trees, we must burn down our forests
April 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
To save our trees, we must burn down our forests