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Jennifer Molidor
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Writing about nature, food, climate, rewilding, wildlife and wild places. 🌲 🐺 🐸 📚Senior Campaigner @biologicaldiversity.org
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The @biologicaldiversity.org & Brighter Green’s new report shows the media failure to fully address the problems/solutions of the climate crisis: nearly 99% of climate stories didn’t mention sustainable diets & 97% failed to mention animal ag broadly.

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Image of media report: Missing Ingredients. A Media Landscape Analysis.
November 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Wild on Purpose: New book arrived today hot off the presses from my fav publisher Torrey House. Looking forward to cracking this open today
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Wild on Purpose: The American Prairie Story and the Art of Thinking Bigger. By Sean Gerrity. Forward by Ken Burns. Quote from Dan Flores, author of Wild New World. “The most exciting environmental idea of the twenty-first century.”
November 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Garbage plan from USDA rolling all bad beef policies they can into one:

— expand public lands grazing
— weaken ESA protections for wolves, coyotes, bears
— increase US beef production & demand
— push beef in Dietary Guidelines (influencing school food programs etc)

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Poore & Nemecek data demonstrating the protein foods with the highest greenhouse gas emissions - with beef way, way at the top, followed by lamb, prawns, beef/dairy cattle, and dairy. The lowest emissions foods are plant based proteins such as beans, lentils, peas and nuts with eggs and grains in the middle.
October 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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This month, we will be hosting the 6th annual free, virtual Food Justice Film Festival. This year featuring Black, Hawaiian and other Indigenous farmers, co ops, community gardens, and interviews with filmmakers and food activists.

Sign up:
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FoodJusticeFilmFestival.org, image of salmon in stream, potatoes in hands, overhead of squash, hands holding soil, two people with arms raised at a river, and corn in a field.
October 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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He gutted much of the USDA’s food programs too and yet
Insane Hatch-Act violating text on the USDA agency site ranting about political issues, blaming one political party and glorifying the Emperor’s new clothes.
October 2, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Look at this crazy header on the US Forest Service website right now. On an official nonpartisan governmental website - a publicly funded agency.

Wild stuff.
Header for the US Forest Service website blames one political party for the shut down and claims the president is trying to keep the government open (on his terms only).
October 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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At a time when we need more of her and less of the rest, it is our great loss.

Eternally grateful for the kindness with which she lived by example, her revolutionary study of chimpanzees that shifted scientific understanding of animals and nature, and decades of advocating for a humane world.
My hero Jane Goodall. Text reads 1934-2025. Jane Goodall comforts a frightened chimpanzee, early in her career, in Gombe National Park.
October 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Sounds wild. The first episode of an inspiring new podcast from @biologicaldiversity.org on fighting the extinction crisis. This episode features Tierra Curry, hellbenders, monarch butterflies, freshwater mussels and converting despair into hope.

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Pika chirping under text that reads SOUNDS WILD.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Western fence lizard I met on a trail.

If their tail is caught by a predator, they can detach it and escape. They will grow back new tails, with a different pattern.

They like coniferous forests, grasslands, sagebrush, and warm sun on their backs. Look at the camouflage. Nature is amazing.
Western fence lizard nestled in the collar nook of a tree.
September 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Exploring the beauty of public lands on my birthday today. Grateful to be here another year around the sun.
A lady and her little boy stand on a trail the meanders over a hill of oak woodlands. My son is missing his top tooth.
September 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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The sky is pouring in the West,
for just a moment rumbling
with thunder,
the magic of light,
and colors.
It is precious
this rain
in these lands.
Not much tops the rush
of a sudden summer storm.
Pink clouds at sunset over houses and trees in the drizzle Orange rays of light and mashed potato textured clouds drift over the sharp points of trees in the skyline, thankfully the orange of sunset and precipitation this time and not wildfires A rainbow cascades over the town to the delight of all the neighbors
September 19, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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A judge has halted USFS efforts to expand grazing in Paradise Valley. Grazing cattle in grizzly territory is driving the killing of bears (& wolves) in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Public land policy should never prioritize cattle ranching over wildlife

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A large brown grizzly stands in a field of sagebrush.
September 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Regenerative beef is posed as a “climate-friendly” solution. Yet cattle drive the climate crisis, deforestation & biodiversity loss.

A guide to the problems and potential of regenerative ag:
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Factsheet on beef: www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/pop...
Black beef cattle spread out on a dry barren landscape devoid of biodiversity due to overgrazing, with mountains in the background. They look to the camera knowing they are not native to this ecosystem, depending on heavily on water and water-intensive feed and forage, which is mostly not available in climate-intensified heat indexes and during a water crisis that impacts aquatic species and ecosystems as well as human communities, all the while cattle production is the largest source of consumed water.
August 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Relatedly, my dog is 12 today and we celebrate it ;)
Beautiful expressive friend in a purple kerchief that reads Its My Birthday. She is not keen about it but wears it anyway. Senior Doggie licking her chops as my son hands her a cruddy pupcake.
July 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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A groundbreaking ruling in a case before the NY Supreme Court: whether a dog can be considered a family member. The ruling establishes damages can be sought from losing a dog due to someone’s negligence. It puts into law that animals are not “things.”

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Black lab looking off into the distance thinking about how long it takes obtuse humans and archaic legal systems to acknowledge that nonhuman animals are sentient, worth, incredible beings and in some instances, family members, part of our pack. Even if we don’t deserve them.
July 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Stunning poem “The Cry” by Page Hill Starzinger in @highcountrynews.org on the ethical parameters of our relationship with the wild

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Tawny owl on perched with curious expression The Cry, a poem by Page Hill Starzinger in High Country News reads It had nothing to do with augury. I held the cell phone high into moonlight, playing the cry of a tawny owl. Merlin obliged, but it also had nothing to do with magic. It was data. The magician an app. The recording stored in cobalt and nickel chambers where birds never roost. But I didn’t think—I wanted to fill an absence. I called to her three times. Four. And then the sweep of outstretched wings, dark figure above me, up, into a cypress where she settled, and cried. What was I thinking. Who am I to lure a wild thing like prey, mislead her, with the stolen song of another— as the hunter does. I did not have a gun. I have a mind that operates like one.
July 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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The return of wolves to California is an epic tale, says Amaroq Weiss @biologicaldiversity.org. “California’s decade of the wolf demonstrates when essential legal protections are in place, there can be comeback stories for desperately imperiled animals.” #rewilding
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Gray wolf, photo courtesy of California Dept of Fish and Wildlife. A beautiful wolf with black, gray and brown mottled fur looks toward the camera with golden eyes and black snout.
July 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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It also includes areas around Lake Tahoe - the largest alpine lake in the U.S., an ecological, historical, cultural gem of mountain beauty.

Like Tallac Historical Site. I was JUST there, and marveled at the peace it brought me.

It’s so upsetting to think these places can all be ripped away.
Marsh at Tallac historical site, mountain range in the background Meadow at Tallac historical site This historical site is right on Lake Tahoe beaches, some of the last remaining public spaces where you can go and learn about history, Indigenous culture, native ecosystems, and just enjoy Lake Tahoe without casinos, stores and private entities. Steps to the clear blue water Trail at Tallac historical site winds through the pines and firs and cedars, enjoyed by hikers and day visitors and happy dogs waiting to splash in the beach, and on the other side, historical ruins and cultural sites
June 19, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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This includes the beautiful Fallen Leaf Lake, home to countless Black bears, fish, chickadees, woodpeckers and butterflies.
Clear alpine lake in the Sierra Nevadas. A small waterfall in the foreground of Fallen Leaf Lake Peace and tranquility in the first at Fallen Leaf Lake My favorite way to spend the day, orange kayak with creek running into Fallen Leaf Lake
June 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Millions of acres of our shared lands in the American West may be up for sale. The catastrophic damage of plundering these lands is unimaginable, for now and future generations. Out here we are in deep relationship with the land. It’s habitat, it’s home.

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Map of land managed by the forest service in green and bureau of land management in Orange, potentially for sale in the American west.
June 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Oregon has passed the 1st bill protecting beavers in degraded watersheds on federal lands.

All trapping on public land should be banned, but by highlighting the ability of beavers to restore waterways & rewild ecosystems, it can at least be a start for other areas.

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Nom nom nom.
June 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Good morning from the Sierra Nevada Mountains, aka the range of light, home to the largest alpine lake in North America.
Mountain range with meadow in the forefront On a hike above emerald bay Tallac marsh and meadow and historical site on the shores of lake Tahoe
June 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Remember what we’re fighting for. Magical light and clean, clear waterfalls, a timeline cleanse from the public lands of Shasta Trinity National Forest.
McCloud River, lower falls. Cool, clear water pours over a cliff in the forest. Mount Shasta at twilight.
June 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Steps to the wild blue wonder that is the clear, deep waters of Lake Tahoe, the largest alpine lake in North America, home to Mackinaw and rainbow trout, sockeye salmon, and efforts to reintroduce native Lahontan cutthroat trout. It’s also just incredibly beautiful.
Steps to the clear blue Lake Tahoe on a sunny day.
June 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Peace and quiet on the river this Memorial Day. Hope you find some time to get outdoors too.
My small child sits at the river bank cooling his feet in the river after a hike with mom. My brownish black old goodest girl takes a drink from the river with oak woodlands in the background. A shady spot on the river this meditative morning.
May 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM