Glenn Forrest
@glenn-forrest.bsky.social
B.Sc. Aerospace Engineering, Arborist, Naturalist, Former Marine, Private Pilot, Progressive 🇺🇸 🇺🇦
S: At 24,000 strong, isn’t the California National Guard large enough to handle any protests?
G: Sure, but Marines are trained to kill.
S: Sounds authoritarian.
G: Sure, but Marines are trained to kill.
S: Sounds authoritarian.
June 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
S: At 24,000 strong, isn’t the California National Guard large enough to handle any protests?
G: Sure, but Marines are trained to kill.
S: Sounds authoritarian.
G: Sure, but Marines are trained to kill.
S: Sounds authoritarian.
S: I’ve been thinking.
G: About what?
S: If you can buy a gold card for $5 million, does that mean illegal immigrants are guilty only of being poor?
G: About what?
S: If you can buy a gold card for $5 million, does that mean illegal immigrants are guilty only of being poor?
May 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM
S: I’ve been thinking.
G: About what?
S: If you can buy a gold card for $5 million, does that mean illegal immigrants are guilty only of being poor?
G: About what?
S: If you can buy a gold card for $5 million, does that mean illegal immigrants are guilty only of being poor?
S: Climate change, nuclear weapons, absurd inequality, humans don’t seem intelligent.
G: It’s not possible to be intelligent, only less dumb.
G: It’s not possible to be intelligent, only less dumb.
May 9, 2025 at 12:38 AM
S: Climate change, nuclear weapons, absurd inequality, humans don’t seem intelligent.
G: It’s not possible to be intelligent, only less dumb.
G: It’s not possible to be intelligent, only less dumb.
S: Will one of these cardinals be the new Pope?
G: Well Sabrina, having a bird brain does appear to be a requirement for the job.
G: Well Sabrina, having a bird brain does appear to be a requirement for the job.
April 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
S: Will one of these cardinals be the new Pope?
G: Well Sabrina, having a bird brain does appear to be a requirement for the job.
G: Well Sabrina, having a bird brain does appear to be a requirement for the job.
S: Is Passover celebrated tonight?
G: Yes, but fortunately you weren’t the oldest in the litter.
G: Yes, but fortunately you weren’t the oldest in the litter.
April 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
S: Is Passover celebrated tonight?
G: Yes, but fortunately you weren’t the oldest in the litter.
G: Yes, but fortunately you weren’t the oldest in the litter.
S: Do house cats need an emergency savings fund?
G: Sabrina, you have a safety net, but if the current administration has its way, you may have to borrow a book on mice hunting, if of course, public libraries remain.
G: Sabrina, you have a safety net, but if the current administration has its way, you may have to borrow a book on mice hunting, if of course, public libraries remain.
April 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
S: Do house cats need an emergency savings fund?
G: Sabrina, you have a safety net, but if the current administration has its way, you may have to borrow a book on mice hunting, if of course, public libraries remain.
G: Sabrina, you have a safety net, but if the current administration has its way, you may have to borrow a book on mice hunting, if of course, public libraries remain.
S: There is no set relationship between a country’s trade deficit and how well it’s economy is doing.
G: Careful who you criticize, it will be hard to find you in an animal shelter in El Salvador.
G: Careful who you criticize, it will be hard to find you in an animal shelter in El Salvador.
April 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
S: There is no set relationship between a country’s trade deficit and how well it’s economy is doing.
G: Careful who you criticize, it will be hard to find you in an animal shelter in El Salvador.
G: Careful who you criticize, it will be hard to find you in an animal shelter in El Salvador.
Merchants Millpond in North Carolina is home to some three thousand species of flora and fauna. Three adult American alligators are known to thrive there. After four failed visits to find one, the fifth attempt yielded this semiaquatic cold-blooded crocodilian.
March 31, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Merchants Millpond in North Carolina is home to some three thousand species of flora and fauna. Three adult American alligators are known to thrive there. After four failed visits to find one, the fifth attempt yielded this semiaquatic cold-blooded crocodilian.
S: Is race a biological reality or a social construct?
G: If only we could ask the children of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.
G: If only we could ask the children of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.
March 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
S: Is race a biological reality or a social construct?
G: If only we could ask the children of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.
G: If only we could ask the children of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.
Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard are liars. They should resign immediately.
March 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard are liars. They should resign immediately.
S: I’m concerned about the future of democracy.
G: You’re more perceptive than half the U.S. population.
G: You’re more perceptive than half the U.S. population.
March 25, 2025 at 2:22 AM
S: I’m concerned about the future of democracy.
G: You’re more perceptive than half the U.S. population.
G: You’re more perceptive than half the U.S. population.
Bills that change how localities can conserve trees amid development await Youngkin’s approval virginiamercury.com/2025/03/10/b...
Bills that change how localities can conserve trees amid development await Youngkin’s approval • Virginia Mercury
The governor vetoed an identical bill last session despite the bill’s consensus support from land developers and environmental advocates.
virginiamercury.com
March 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Bills that change how localities can conserve trees amid development await Youngkin’s approval virginiamercury.com/2025/03/10/b...
Choosing between protection and development 72 percent of Westerners prefer their elected
officials to place more emphasis on protecting clean water sources, air quality and wildlife habitat while
providing opportunities to visit and recreate on public lands.
www.coloradocollege.edu/other/stateo...
officials to place more emphasis on protecting clean water sources, air quality and wildlife habitat while
providing opportunities to visit and recreate on public lands.
www.coloradocollege.edu/other/stateo...
www.coloradocollege.edu
March 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Choosing between protection and development 72 percent of Westerners prefer their elected
officials to place more emphasis on protecting clean water sources, air quality and wildlife habitat while
providing opportunities to visit and recreate on public lands.
www.coloradocollege.edu/other/stateo...
officials to place more emphasis on protecting clean water sources, air quality and wildlife habitat while
providing opportunities to visit and recreate on public lands.
www.coloradocollege.edu/other/stateo...
"Quite simply and astonishingly, this is dismantling the National Park Service as we know it, ranger by ranger and brick by brick." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO
www.npca.org/articles/707...
www.npca.org/articles/707...
Parks Group Warns of Dismantling of the National Park Service
"Quite simply and astonishingly, this is dismantling the National Park Service as we know it, ranger by ranger and brick by brick." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO
www.npca.org
March 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
"Quite simply and astonishingly, this is dismantling the National Park Service as we know it, ranger by ranger and brick by brick." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO
www.npca.org/articles/707...
www.npca.org/articles/707...
“Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources… Do not let greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.” – Theodore Roosevelt
March 3, 2025 at 3:13 AM
“Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources… Do not let greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.” – Theodore Roosevelt
There is a strong correlation between federal land protected and a county’s employment growth rate. The current administration seems not to know or care.
Headwater Economics. West Is Best. p. 19.
Headwater Economics. West Is Best. p. 19.
February 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
There is a strong correlation between federal land protected and a county’s employment growth rate. The current administration seems not to know or care.
Headwater Economics. West Is Best. p. 19.
Headwater Economics. West Is Best. p. 19.
A friend just asked would the birds that feed on the ground survive the recent snow. Birds evolved to survive the snow, they didn’t evolve to deal with habitat destruction, pesticides, domestic cats, collisions with buildings, bad landscape plant choices etc…
www.allaboutbirds.org/news/vanishi....
www.allaboutbirds.org/news/vanishi....
Vanishing: More Than 1 in 4 Birds Has Disappeared in the Last 50 Years
From the Autumn 2019 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now.
If you were alive in the year 1970, more than one in four birds in the U.S. and Canada has disappeared within your lifetime.
Accord...
www.allaboutbirds.org
February 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
A friend just asked would the birds that feed on the ground survive the recent snow. Birds evolved to survive the snow, they didn’t evolve to deal with habitat destruction, pesticides, domestic cats, collisions with buildings, bad landscape plant choices etc…
www.allaboutbirds.org/news/vanishi....
www.allaboutbirds.org/news/vanishi....
Our newest EPA Administrator states “…we will take great strides to defend every American's access to clean air, clean water, and clean land.” Very well. Call and tell your representatives you support policies that accomplish those goals.
February 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Our newest EPA Administrator states “…we will take great strides to defend every American's access to clean air, clean water, and clean land.” Very well. Call and tell your representatives you support policies that accomplish those goals.
Hanging Rock State Park in the Sauratown Mountains of North Carolina started as a
Civilian Conservation Corps project. Government investment in public lands is critical to the well-being of our wildlife and our citizens.
Civilian Conservation Corps project. Government investment in public lands is critical to the well-being of our wildlife and our citizens.
February 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Hanging Rock State Park in the Sauratown Mountains of North Carolina started as a
Civilian Conservation Corps project. Government investment in public lands is critical to the well-being of our wildlife and our citizens.
Civilian Conservation Corps project. Government investment in public lands is critical to the well-being of our wildlife and our citizens.
Public lands are important to all our citizens. Indiscriminate mass firing of federal employees who help preserve and protect these national treasures is unacceptable. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/02/upda...
UPDATE | One-Thousand National Park Service Staff Fired, Seasonal Hiring Resuming
One-thousand National Park Service staff were being fired Friday as part of the Trump administration's move to reduce the size of federal government, though the agency was told it could begin hiring 5...
www.nationalparkstraveler.org
February 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Public lands are important to all our citizens. Indiscriminate mass firing of federal employees who help preserve and protect these national treasures is unacceptable. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/02/upda...
A few acres of paradise border Rudee Lake in Virginia Beach. A Great Blue Heron manages to thrive adjacent to heavy oceanfront development.
January 31, 2025 at 10:50 PM
A few acres of paradise border Rudee Lake in Virginia Beach. A Great Blue Heron manages to thrive adjacent to heavy oceanfront development.
Wetlands boardwalk at Lake Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge. It’s North Carolina’s largest body of freshwater. Immense flocks of geese, swans, and ducks overwinter here.
January 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Wetlands boardwalk at Lake Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge. It’s North Carolina’s largest body of freshwater. Immense flocks of geese, swans, and ducks overwinter here.