Connie Best
@conniepft.bsky.social
I'm a forest creature and so are you. We all depend on forests for the air we breathe, clean water, biodiversity, shelter and livable climate. Forest conservation + ecological management = critical climate action now. I live with a pack of Vizslas.
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"Protecting old-growth and mature forests across the [Pacific Northwest] region is essential for maintaining forest health and supporting the long-term productivity of Douglas-fir plantations."🌍 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Forum Article: Why a Network of Old-Growth and Mature Forests Across the Douglas-Fir Region is Good for the Timber Industry - Journal of Forestry
The Douglas-fir region of the Pacific Northwest is one of the most productive forestry regions in the world, combining sustainable timber production with native species management, particularly Dougla...
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October 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
"Protecting old-growth and mature forests across the [Pacific Northwest] region is essential for maintaining forest health and supporting the long-term productivity of Douglas-fir plantations."🌍 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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There is a carbon price, it's just that the polluters aren't the one to pay it.
This is a good thing from a risk-based pricing perspective. But also so hard for people that are now paying $12k + difference in conditions. This is one of the true costs for Californians of wildfire.
October 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
There is a carbon price, it's just that the polluters aren't the one to pay it.
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Goodnight, all. May we all know moments of peace and sun-warmed bliss like this adorable ocean potato I saw today.
September 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Goodnight, all. May we all know moments of peace and sun-warmed bliss like this adorable ocean potato I saw today.
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WA State Commissioner of Public Lands Dave Upthegrove has signed a sweeping order to permanently conserve >77,000 acres of structurally complex forests—marking one of the most significant conservation actions in the history of the Dept of Natural Resources. woodcentral.com.au/washingtons-...
Washington's New Order Protects 77,000 Acres of Complex Forests
Washington State Commissioner of Public Lands Dave Upthegrove has signed a sweeping order to permanently conserve more than 77,000 acres of structurally complex
woodcentral.com.au
August 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
WA State Commissioner of Public Lands Dave Upthegrove has signed a sweeping order to permanently conserve >77,000 acres of structurally complex forests—marking one of the most significant conservation actions in the history of the Dept of Natural Resources. woodcentral.com.au/washingtons-...
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In terms of climate, an order of magnitude more effective to focus on protecting existing native forests than tree planting.
August 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
In terms of climate, an order of magnitude more effective to focus on protecting existing native forests than tree planting.
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Absolutely. In terms of nature-based solutions, the priorities are clear:
1. Protect what we already have.
2. Restore what has become degraded.
3. Regenerate what has been lost.
1. Protect what we already have.
2. Restore what has become degraded.
3. Regenerate what has been lost.
August 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Absolutely. In terms of nature-based solutions, the priorities are clear:
1. Protect what we already have.
2. Restore what has become degraded.
3. Regenerate what has been lost.
1. Protect what we already have.
2. Restore what has become degraded.
3. Regenerate what has been lost.
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Researchers have chased off predators in Oregon and California with drones equipped with loud speakers, blasting the sounds of AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” and an argument between actors in the movie “Marriage Story."
USDA uses AC/DC, Scarlett Johansson movie scene to scare away wolves
Researchers have chased off predators in Oregon and California with drones equipped with loud speakers, blasting the sounds of AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” and an argument between actors in the movie “Marriage Story."
www.oregonlive.com
August 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Researchers have chased off predators in Oregon and California with drones equipped with loud speakers, blasting the sounds of AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” and an argument between actors in the movie “Marriage Story."
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I think we undermine sociopathy by strengthening the healthy communities of mutuality -
Listening to the Sermon on the Mount as prescriptions for healthy community practices and solidarity in the face of occupation.
You Have Heard It Said
So, I’ve been taking a class that has been interestingly focused on the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, the Lord’s Prayer, the lilies of the field, pray in your closet and all that. Matthew’s chapters 5, 6, and 7.
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
August 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I think we undermine sociopathy by strengthening the healthy communities of mutuality -
Interconnectedness is the fact of life. Caring beyond despairing leads to compassionate action for people and the planet. Joanna Marcy illuminated these truths. Now more than ever, let's keep that light shining in our lives.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/c...
Joanna Macy, Who Found a Way to Transcend ‘Eco-Anxiety,’ Dies at 96
www.nytimes.com
July 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Interconnectedness is the fact of life. Caring beyond despairing leads to compassionate action for people and the planet. Joanna Marcy illuminated these truths. Now more than ever, let's keep that light shining in our lives.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/c...
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Who do you think of?
![—“The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lies reaches a point where he cannot recognize any truth in himself or in anyone surrounding him, and so he loses all respect for himself and for others. Once he respects no one, he stops loving; to occupy and distract himself, he yields to passions and coarse inclinations and ultimately sinks to bestiality in all his vices…. A man who lies to himself can be more readily offended than anyone else…. [H]e’s the first to feel offended, he feels offended to the point of pleasure, where he experiences immense satisfaction, and from there he succeeds at arriving at genuine vindictiveness.”
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yhwyp5hu4xna5vvz5b6ahtya/bafkreiehqppu3hjb37gjifqm5ta3je3cx6gwnpvqusph4zscbknuxxieba@jpeg)
July 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Who do you think of?
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spot on, Lorax
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July 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
spot on, Lorax
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New quarterly webinar on the RAD (Resist-Accept-Direct) framework, offered by the National Climate Adaptation Science Center!
The RAD framework supports natural resource managers in negotiating the decision space around ecological change: resisting it, accepting it, or actively directing it.
The RAD framework supports natural resource managers in negotiating the decision space around ecological change: resisting it, accepting it, or actively directing it.
July 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
New quarterly webinar on the RAD (Resist-Accept-Direct) framework, offered by the National Climate Adaptation Science Center!
The RAD framework supports natural resource managers in negotiating the decision space around ecological change: resisting it, accepting it, or actively directing it.
The RAD framework supports natural resource managers in negotiating the decision space around ecological change: resisting it, accepting it, or actively directing it.
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Shout this!
July 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Shout this!
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This climate catastrophe coming on the US's independence day is a reminder that we were never independent of nature and never will be, and that there is a terrible cost to undermining its elegant systems...
July 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This climate catastrophe coming on the US's independence day is a reminder that we were never independent of nature and never will be, and that there is a terrible cost to undermining its elegant systems...
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Dave's not wrong. This could change how silvicultural prescriptions are written
Old trees sequester more carbon. This paper clearly refutes the US Forest Service's unscientific insistance about the need to keep cutting old growth trees. They lie about it so they can use your taxdollars to cut your trees on your publiclands.
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Allometric equations quantify accelerated growth and carbon fixation in trees of northeastern north America
A tree's basal area (BA) and wood volume scale exponentially with tree diameter in species-specific patterns. Recent observed increases in tree growth…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 19, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Dave's not wrong. This could change how silvicultural prescriptions are written
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Forestry reductively assumes trees can be managed as crops by focusing on a few (primarily tree-related) variables. Yet research is continually revealing how little we actually know about how forests function, and the importance of the below-ground ecosystem. 🌏
Tree functional strategies and soil microbial communities regulate forest ecosystem services 🌲
Provides important information on which functional groups may be planted to promote particular bundles of ecosystem services 💭🌏 🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Provides important information on which functional groups may be planted to promote particular bundles of ecosystem services 💭🌏 🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
May 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Forestry reductively assumes trees can be managed as crops by focusing on a few (primarily tree-related) variables. Yet research is continually revealing how little we actually know about how forests function, and the importance of the below-ground ecosystem. 🌏
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Thinking of Thomas Paine’s famous essay, “The American Crisis" published in December 1776 after a series of defeats and retreats by General Washington and the Continental Army.
March 25, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Thinking of Thomas Paine’s famous essay, “The American Crisis" published in December 1776 after a series of defeats and retreats by General Washington and the Continental Army.
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“Karuk has been a national thought leader on cultural fire,” said Geneva E.B. Thompson... [CNRA] …“So, it makes sense that they would be a natural first partner in this space because they have a really clear mission and core commitment to get this work done.” www.latimes.com/environment/...
California tribe enters first-of-its-kind agreement with the state to practice cultural burns
After suppression of Indigenous cultural burning, the state agrees Northern California's Karuk Tribe may practice the burns more freely than it has in over 175 years.
www.latimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
“Karuk has been a national thought leader on cultural fire,” said Geneva E.B. Thompson... [CNRA] …“So, it makes sense that they would be a natural first partner in this space because they have a really clear mission and core commitment to get this work done.” www.latimes.com/environment/...
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If you want to understand fire dynamics in California, it's critical to understand the increasing role of 'hydroclimate whiplash'. Just ask LA.
Join us tomorrow, February 25th at 10am PT for the continuation of the California Fire Science Seminar Series. @weatherwest.bsky.social will present Shifts in seasonality and increases in hydroclimate whiplash are increasing California wildfire risk. Register here: https://buff.ly/40HelHi
February 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
If you want to understand fire dynamics in California, it's critical to understand the increasing role of 'hydroclimate whiplash'. Just ask LA.
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Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down U.S. flag on El Capitan as a distress signal www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...
Photos: ‘Distress flag’ towers over Yosemite to protest cuts as crowds view firefall
Saturday’s protest sought to bring attention to the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration this month.
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February 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down U.S. flag on El Capitan as a distress signal www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...
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As part of Trump’s agenda to prioritize tax breaks for billionaires over the safety of our communities, he fired thousands of Forest Service employees last night. These jobs not only contribute to our local economy – but they support essential wildfire prevention work.
POLITICO Pro: Forest Service fires 3,400 people after ‘deferred resignation’ deadline passes
The cuts amount to about a 10 percent reduction in the agency’s workforce.
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February 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
As part of Trump’s agenda to prioritize tax breaks for billionaires over the safety of our communities, he fired thousands of Forest Service employees last night. These jobs not only contribute to our local economy – but they support essential wildfire prevention work.
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I’m hosting a telephone town hall this Monday, February 24 at 5:30pm PT. Join me for an update on what’s happening in Congress and make your voices heard.
February 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I’m hosting a telephone town hall this Monday, February 24 at 5:30pm PT. Join me for an update on what’s happening in Congress and make your voices heard.
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More info in this latest article, although to be clear what has been terminated is the IPCC Working Group 3 technical support unit and fed travel to next weeks’s meeting where the report chapter outlines are to be approved, after which authors will be solicited.
February 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
More info in this latest article, although to be clear what has been terminated is the IPCC Working Group 3 technical support unit and fed travel to next weeks’s meeting where the report chapter outlines are to be approved, after which authors will be solicited.
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We must speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues
We're in a coup, which means we're in a nightmare, which means we're all ramped up, so let me offer you some deep time, perseverance, and beauty, before you and I go back to the work.
February 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
We must speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues