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Keith Blomstrom
@ecoranger.bsky.social
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Retired Contractor, Environmentalist Former president of the Minnesota Conservation Federation. Board member of the Minnestoa Environmental Partnership 6 year term.
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Coffee & Tea with Lev & Dean: Breaking —Trump, Epstein Files & the Plan to Rig 2026
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Coffee & Tea with Lev & Dean: Breaking —Trump, Epstein Files & the Plan to Rig 2026
A recording from Lev Parnas's live video
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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j1j2.bsky.social
Virtual from Florida
Tuesday, November 25
December 23 and January 27
November 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Surprising find near the trap: a wooden oar with incised decoration that had been brought up the 4500-ft-tall mountain. (Pic of it and a cute axe-shaped brooch in link.)🏺🧪
Archaeologists discover 1,500-year-old reindeer trap and other artifacts 'melting out of the ice' in Norway's mountains
The well-preserved reindeer trap may be unique in Europe.
www.livescience.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
ecoranger.bsky.social
We went to a presentation by Dr. DeBakey at our college.
November 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and might have traded them around the world.
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How ancient humans bred and traded the first domestic dogs
Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and might have traded them around the world.
www.nature.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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tessmachling.bsky.social
Well done @boothicus.bsky.social for being one of the voices of reason in this.

I have to say, this bit of research, the ethics of it, left me feeling pretty queasy.

Also, once again, massive media coverage before publication of the actual data. Sigh...

#Archaeology 🏺
www.cnn.com/2025/11/13/s...
Researchers say they have verified and sequenced Hitler’s DNA – and found a genetic disorder | CNN
Analysis of Adolf Hitler’s DNA reveals he may have had a rare genetic disorder that can delay puberty.
www.cnn.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”

- Leo Tolstoy.🌱
November 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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🌱 #SundayYellow. There was some Bird”s Foot Trefoil flowering in Wisley’s Hilltop Wildlife garden last Sunday. I wonder what I will spot there today after all the rain. Have a good day!
Bright yellow pea like flowers arranged in a circle.
November 16, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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#BotanySky 🌿🌱🍀
christhorogood.bsky.social Chris Thorogood @christhorogood.bsky.social · 7h
Today we found something magical, deep in the wild green heart of Sumatra: Rafflesia kemumu in full bloom. One of the world's largest flowers, to see this extremely rare species in full bloom is truly special.
November 16, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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This is a green anole. (File under: Who You Gonna Believe? Me or Your Lyin' Eyes?) They can morph to brown — or this fetching mottle — for camouflage or heat regulation. It usually takes about a minute after they leap from leaf to porch railing to floor, and it's fascinating to watch.
🌱📷
A small mottled brown lizard (Anolis carolinensis) on a weathered wooden porch floor. (For scale, the plank is 5⅜ inches wide.) It is slim, with an oblong head, prominent eyes, slightly curved tail and delicate toes equipped with pads that allow it to climb even slick surfaces.
November 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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And here's one in its usual dress, on a branch at my porch.
🌱📷
A bright green lizard scampering toward green leaves.
November 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Good morning 🌱🍊🌼
Orange flower, with rain on it
November 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
ecoranger.bsky.social
There were 20 or more in a field behind our house last night. They like to eat what is left of the soybean field after the harvest. They come into town during hunting season and when the crops are harvested, hiding places are concentrated after harvest.
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A solitary Doe in a snow covered empty field.
#Deer #nature #wildlife 🌿
A pretty solitary White-Tailed Deer stands alone in the snow covered soy stubble. (I hope that not all her kin have succumbed to the hunter’s weapons.)
November 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Camera-trap study catches nectar-feeding birds breaking into flowers when their beaks don't fit 🌿🪶

Trait matching affects the probability of nectar robbing in plant-pollinator networks

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Figure 1 from the linked paper, captioned: Camera trap pictures showing diverse types of feeding behaviours recorded in the study area. (a) Diglossa cyanea feeding legitimately on Macleania rupestris by inserting its lower mandible inside the flower tube while the upper mandible is kept out of the flower. (b) Eriocnemis luciani visiting the same flowers of M. rupestris legitimately. (c) D. lafresnayii robbing nectar from a Fuchsia ayavacensis flower. (d) M. tyrianthina robbing nectar from the same F. ayavacensis flower, possibly using the hole previously pierced by D. lafresnayii.
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Aquilegia barnebyi, our Oil Shale Columbine, blooming in Big Wash #nativeplants

#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to May 13 🌿
Nodding red and yellow columbine flower with spurs pointing up Red and yellow columbine flower
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Ipomopsis aggregata, our Scarlet Gilia, blooming in Big Wash #nativeplants

#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to May 13 🌿
Red tubular flowers
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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California Bay (Umbellularia californica) beginning to bloom last week on Sonoma Mtn. Earliest I've noted flowers, but not by much, since they are winter bloomers.💚

More about them here...
friendsofedgewood.org/california-bay

#Trees #NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #NaturePhotos #iNat 📷
Close-up of tiny buds and golden yellow blooms centered among a circle of deep green leathery leaves.
November 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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I can smell #autumn dancing in the breeze.
~Ann Drake

🕉️ …smells like #WeekendVibes! 🌿🦌I'm off Friday!! Going riding, before the rains come...and hiking when they do. 🫠

🫶 Have a sweet weekend, peeps! 🤘😶‍🌫️

#Scape
#Seasons
#AutumnVibes
#FeelingFall
#GetOutThere
#EastCoastKin
#Photography
#Mammals
Smells like a strain called 'Mo' Dough'. Really. In portrait frame, a young Mule Deer lifts a rear leg with the big buck of the herd sniffing the Fall leaves on the ground right behind.
November 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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I picked up my camera bag after taking some photos of mushrooms and discovered that an ensatina (a kind of lungless salamander) had crawled under the bag!

It's the opposite of "the one that got away".

Woodhaven Swamp, Belcarra, BC.

#herps #salamander 🌿 #naturephotography
An ensatina is crawling among the twigs on the forest floor. It has turned back to look at the camera. Canon R5+RF100, 1/80, f20, ISO 6400. Flash.
November 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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gettoknownature.bsky.social
They’re like tiny pumpkins!

(Pokeweed) #NativePlants 🌿 #BloomScrolling
Zoomed in on a plant stem with small white flowers that have green fruits growing at the center of each.
November 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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gettoknownature.bsky.social
Seems like time for some emergency cute. Please remember to look away from the horrors sometimes

(Chickadee) #birds 🌿
A small bird stands on the side of a wooden bird feeder. It faces the camera and has a small white seed in its mouth. It is extremely cute
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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A very stark reminder why no one goes out on foot after dark in Churchill, Manitoba. This mom and her cubs came just off the beach and behind the town complex. The Polar Bear Alert staff gently herded them away from town to keep everyone safe. #mammals #BearSeason2025 🌿
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Moove along. Nothing to see here
#mammals 🌿
View through dense, sunlit bushes and narrow aspen trunks. Well obscured within, there may or may not be a moose looking back at the camera over its left shoulder.
November 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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frwildflowers.bsky.social
Lunaria annua, the nonnative invasive Annual Honesty (aka Money Plant), blooming in Boulder county.

#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to May 14 🌿
Purple four-petal flowers
November 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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frwildflowers.bsky.social
Myosotis sylvatica, the nonnative Wood Forget-Me-Not, naturalized along Boulder Creek.

#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to May 14 🌿
Light blue five-lobed flowers with white fornices
November 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM