Brad E Lewis
@bradelewis.bsky.social
Restoration Ecologist. Interested in community based ecological restoration, biodiversity, climate resilience and accessible science.
Currently based in Boulder, CO
Currently based in Boulder, CO
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“We used a nature-based solution to heal an ecosystem, and by doing so, you not only heal ecosystems, but you heal people, you heal culture and you heal economies,” she said, “I just wanted the whole world to know it’s possible, we can do it, because we need hope right now.”
One year after dams were torn down, an Indigenous writer sees a healing Klamath River
"I used to always say, I want my great-grandmother’s river back. And I feel like I am just getting to know my great-grandmother’s river."
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"I used to always say, I want my great-grandmother’s river back. And I feel like I am just getting to know my great-grandmother’s river."
www.latimes.com/environment/...
One year after dams were torn down, an Indigenous writer sees a healing Klamath River
Dams were dismantled on the Klamath River last year. An Indigenous writer reflects on how the river is starting to recover.
www.latimes.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
“We used a nature-based solution to heal an ecosystem, and by doing so, you not only heal ecosystems, but you heal people, you heal culture and you heal economies,” she said, “I just wanted the whole world to know it’s possible, we can do it, because we need hope right now.”
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🌊 The new @merlin-project.bsky.social podcast explores how nature-based solutions can help support people and nature through freshwater restoration
📻 Tune in here!
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📻 Tune in here!
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MERLIN Podcast EP.12 – How nature-based solutions can support people and nature in freshwater restoration
Image: Tom Fisk | Pexels Creative Commons Harnessing the potential of natural processes in freshwater restoration can create significant ecological, social and economic benefits, according to a maj…
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August 22, 2025 at 8:17 AM
🌊 The new @merlin-project.bsky.social podcast explores how nature-based solutions can help support people and nature through freshwater restoration
📻 Tune in here!
freshwaterblog.net/2025/08/22/m...
📻 Tune in here!
freshwaterblog.net/2025/08/22/m...
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GOP Senate bill mandates 3 million acres of public land to be sold, but NOW authorizes ANOTHER 255 million acres for sale. This is 40 percent of all public lands! An environmental disaster. Please call your senators, it takes less than five minutes. wessiler.substack.com/p/lee-daines...
Lee, Daines Up Public Land Sell Off To 258 Million Acres
The Senate's budget reconciliation package includes provision to sell off 40 percent of all public land
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June 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
GOP Senate bill mandates 3 million acres of public land to be sold, but NOW authorizes ANOTHER 255 million acres for sale. This is 40 percent of all public lands! An environmental disaster. Please call your senators, it takes less than five minutes. wessiler.substack.com/p/lee-daines...
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"A Wyoming-based energy company has received approval from the USFS to pipe natural gas across 18 mi of the Caribou-Targhee NF. The construction would clearcut a 50-foot-wide right-of-way thru 6 inventoried roadless areas in WY and ID." 🌏 columbiainsight.org/proposed-pip...
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May 30, 2025 at 2:36 AM
"A Wyoming-based energy company has received approval from the USFS to pipe natural gas across 18 mi of the Caribou-Targhee NF. The construction would clearcut a 50-foot-wide right-of-way thru 6 inventoried roadless areas in WY and ID." 🌏 columbiainsight.org/proposed-pip...
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NOAA Research feeds National Weather Service forecasts: it created & continuously improves the computer weather models NWS uses to generate forecasts, including for severe weather.
NOAA Research faces elimination. Learn more & contact your reps: bit.ly/4cz2RtC #SaveNOAA
NOAA Research faces elimination. Learn more & contact your reps: bit.ly/4cz2RtC #SaveNOAA
May 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
NOAA Research feeds National Weather Service forecasts: it created & continuously improves the computer weather models NWS uses to generate forecasts, including for severe weather.
NOAA Research faces elimination. Learn more & contact your reps: bit.ly/4cz2RtC #SaveNOAA
NOAA Research faces elimination. Learn more & contact your reps: bit.ly/4cz2RtC #SaveNOAA
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I guess The Nature Conservancy doesn’t follow AP style
February 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I guess The Nature Conservancy doesn’t follow AP style
Hey @nature.org. How about explaining why you are updating references to the Gulf of Mexico in your docs/website to now reflect "Gulf of America". Literally, how about you explain yourselves?
February 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Hey @nature.org. How about explaining why you are updating references to the Gulf of Mexico in your docs/website to now reflect "Gulf of America". Literally, how about you explain yourselves?
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More restoration pictures! These pictures show a riparian planting all along a restored stream. This was part of another culvert replacement project. The culvert blocked salmon from going upstream. It was replaced with a bridge, and the stream was restored and thousands of plants were planted. 🌎
February 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
More restoration pictures! These pictures show a riparian planting all along a restored stream. This was part of another culvert replacement project. The culvert blocked salmon from going upstream. It was replaced with a bridge, and the stream was restored and thousands of plants were planted. 🌎
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It has never stopped blowing my mind, the incredible situation that the gas industry has created for itself
Not only do they create their own demand, they pair that with panicked media drops about shortfalls in "energy supply". It's so nuts how effective the lies are, too
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Not only do they create their own demand, they pair that with panicked media drops about shortfalls in "energy supply". It's so nuts how effective the lies are, too
bsky.app/profile/keta...
not only does australia send most of the gas it extracts overseas, it uses more gas **just for preparing the other gas for sending elsewhere** than it does for all domestic gas power generation
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www.energy.gov.au/sites/defaul...
January 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
It has never stopped blowing my mind, the incredible situation that the gas industry has created for itself
Not only do they create their own demand, they pair that with panicked media drops about shortfalls in "energy supply". It's so nuts how effective the lies are, too
bsky.app/profile/keta...
Not only do they create their own demand, they pair that with panicked media drops about shortfalls in "energy supply". It's so nuts how effective the lies are, too
bsky.app/profile/keta...
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Interesting results from this study and potential application to #ecologicalrestoration. If also observed in other plants, might seedling stock be 'trained' for greater success on sites that are water stressed?
#Trees can "remember" wetter times, shaping their growth for years after wet phases end. Researchers explain young trees that have never known abundant rain may be better equipped to survive in a chronically dry world: https://buff.ly/4gKGSBq 🌱 🌎 #climatesky #forestry #ecology
Trees ‘remember’ wetter times − never having known abundant rain could buffer today’s young forests against climate change
Water availability regulates tree growth and can have ‘legacy effects’ long after conditions change.
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January 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Interesting results from this study and potential application to #ecologicalrestoration. If also observed in other plants, might seedling stock be 'trained' for greater success on sites that are water stressed?
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🌊Integrating Indigenous and traditional knowledge-holders in policymaking is essential for achieving equity, restorative justice and #decolonization in ocean governance.
🌿The Ocean Panel's new paper explores how: https://buff.ly/4f0j2Qo
🌿The Ocean Panel's new paper explores how: https://buff.ly/4f0j2Qo
December 6, 2024 at 1:30 PM
🌊Integrating Indigenous and traditional knowledge-holders in policymaking is essential for achieving equity, restorative justice and #decolonization in ocean governance.
🌿The Ocean Panel's new paper explores how: https://buff.ly/4f0j2Qo
🌿The Ocean Panel's new paper explores how: https://buff.ly/4f0j2Qo
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Awesome but damnit all to hell, #grasslands cover around 40% of terrestrial Earth and they need restored too. As do wetlands. If we could just bring a teensy bit of nuance to these huge policy declarations, I’d appreciate it.
#ecorestore #restoration
#ecorestore #restoration
Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum proposed to the world’s biggest economies to allocate 1% of their annual military spending, a total of about $24 billion, to support massive reforestation around the world.
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Nations should redirect 1% of military spending towards reforestation, Mexico proposes
MEXICO CITY — President Claudia Sheinbaum has proposed dedicating 1% of the military annual budgets of the world’s biggest economies to support reforestation of around 15 million hectares (37 million ...
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December 4, 2024 at 4:41 AM
Awesome but damnit all to hell, #grasslands cover around 40% of terrestrial Earth and they need restored too. As do wetlands. If we could just bring a teensy bit of nuance to these huge policy declarations, I’d appreciate it.
#ecorestore #restoration
#ecorestore #restoration
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Tree-planting in the Arctic can accelerate rather than decelerate climate warming 🌲 Check out our recent paper in Nature Geoscience superbly led by @jeep4x4.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s41... (figure credit @laurabp.bsky.social)
December 8, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Tree-planting in the Arctic can accelerate rather than decelerate climate warming 🌲 Check out our recent paper in Nature Geoscience superbly led by @jeep4x4.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s41... (figure credit @laurabp.bsky.social)
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Yet again seen a perfectly fine ecological restoration project presented as rewilding
Intervening to direct a system towards a target state is a valid conservation approach,
but that is restoration, not rewilding
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Intervening to direct a system towards a target state is a valid conservation approach,
but that is restoration, not rewilding
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Restore or rewild? Implementing complementary approaches to bend the curve on biodiversity loss
We discuss the benefits of integrating restoration and rewilding in conservation projects and highlight how such integration could increase the amount of space available for nature recovery; boost kn....
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December 2, 2024 at 11:12 AM
Yet again seen a perfectly fine ecological restoration project presented as rewilding
Intervening to direct a system towards a target state is a valid conservation approach,
but that is restoration, not rewilding
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Intervening to direct a system towards a target state is a valid conservation approach,
but that is restoration, not rewilding
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
With ecosystem services valued globally at ~ USD $125-145 trillion per year, the value of #climateresilience and #ecologicalrestoration projects is evident. We need more restoration, across more diverse ecosystems, with long-term monitoring to improve outcomes and build knowledge.
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shorturl.at/l9G5O
Climate resilience in the face of bad global warming
Anticipating bad warming doesn’t imply climate doom-ism. Just because the climate horse left the barn doesn’t mean it will run us over.
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December 6, 2024 at 4:09 AM
With ecosystem services valued globally at ~ USD $125-145 trillion per year, the value of #climateresilience and #ecologicalrestoration projects is evident. We need more restoration, across more diverse ecosystems, with long-term monitoring to improve outcomes and build knowledge.
shorturl.at/l9G5O
shorturl.at/l9G5O
Community-based #ecologicalrestoration provides a key mechanism to improve project success, if collaboration and acknowledgement of power inequities are front and center. Incorporating local and Indigenous knowledge leads to better restoration outcomes.
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Collaboration for social‐ecological restoration: reflections from literature and practice
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December 5, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Community-based #ecologicalrestoration provides a key mechanism to improve project success, if collaboration and acknowledgement of power inequities are front and center. Incorporating local and Indigenous knowledge leads to better restoration outcomes.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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New Mexico will get over $1M from Bureau of Land Management this fiscal year for ecosystem restoration projects, from watershed restoration to campground improvements and native seed development. All funded through the Infrastructure Law we passed last Congress.
February 18, 2024 at 11:01 PM
New Mexico will get over $1M from Bureau of Land Management this fiscal year for ecosystem restoration projects, from watershed restoration to campground improvements and native seed development. All funded through the Infrastructure Law we passed last Congress.
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New paper by Lima et al shows a 30yr+ case study a National Park that preventative invasive species management and retreatment can keep invasive cover below 1% even with changing climates - great reason why we need dedicated funds for maintenance!
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Unusual success, future uncertainty, and science needs for adaptive management of invasive plants in a US national park
Responding to these changes requires articulating desired and realistic future conditions for resources in protected areas, then using actions such as invasive plant removal and native plant revegeta....
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December 2, 2024 at 4:48 PM
New paper by Lima et al shows a 30yr+ case study a National Park that preventative invasive species management and retreatment can keep invasive cover below 1% even with changing climates - great reason why we need dedicated funds for maintenance!
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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The only way to truly tackle climate change is to restore our natural habitats
#Rewild #ClimateAction
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#Rewild #ClimateAction
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Think Big. Act Wild.
Rewilding Britain aims to tackle the climate emergency and extinction crisis, reconnect people with the natural world and to help communities thrive.
www.rewildingbritain.org.uk
November 23, 2024 at 11:33 AM
The only way to truly tackle climate change is to restore our natural habitats
#Rewild #ClimateAction
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#Rewild #ClimateAction
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Response of aspen to a warming climate along a latitudinal gradient in the Rocky Mountains, USA #OpenAccess #climate 🧪🌎
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Response of aspen to a warming climate along a latitudinal gradient in the Rocky Mountains, USA
The 21st century’s warming climate threatens aspen (Populus tremuloides) growth in the southern Rocky Mountains (western US), endangering ecosystem diversity, functionality, and associated services. T...
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November 14, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Response of aspen to a warming climate along a latitudinal gradient in the Rocky Mountains, USA #OpenAccess #climate 🧪🌎
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Just a scientist, standing above a boreal floodplain filled with boglands, asking you to respect and admire bogs. Keepers of carbon, cleaners of water, springboards of unique biodiversity - peatlands globally need our attention and protection.
November 29, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Just a scientist, standing above a boreal floodplain filled with boglands, asking you to respect and admire bogs. Keepers of carbon, cleaners of water, springboards of unique biodiversity - peatlands globally need our attention and protection.