Michael Reinemer
@michaelreinemer.bsky.social
Editor, Outdoor America, environmental quarterly at Izaak Walton League; 4th gen Montanan. Grinnell College + Wilderness Society alum. Member @sciencewriters.org #envhist. Words in Wash Post, WSJ. Reader: Poetry Daily. Views here=mine
Overuse of salt on pavement is a growing crisis for waterways & infrastructure in the US. Volunteer scientists using SaltWatch test strips & data from the Izaak Walton League document the pollution and are working with local governments to reduce the use of salt. Story: Kasha Patel
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June 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Overuse of salt on pavement is a growing crisis for waterways & infrastructure in the US. Volunteer scientists using SaltWatch test strips & data from the Izaak Walton League document the pollution and are working with local governments to reduce the use of salt. Story: Kasha Patel
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What it takes to jolt me out of my morning stupor. A series of shocks.
April 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
What it takes to jolt me out of my morning stupor. A series of shocks.
Bluebells, spring beauty, trout lily and other ephemerals begin to bloom, exploiting the open canopy at Riverbend Park along the Potomac, Virginia side
March 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Bluebells, spring beauty, trout lily and other ephemerals begin to bloom, exploiting the open canopy at Riverbend Park along the Potomac, Virginia side
Trump again tries to open up more Alaska land for drilling in spite of the energy glut. At the January lease sale for drilling in the Arctic Natl Wildlife Refuge, the industry offered zero bids. Story on the Trump move: Reuters @valerievolc.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
March 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Trump again tries to open up more Alaska land for drilling in spite of the energy glut. At the January lease sale for drilling in the Arctic Natl Wildlife Refuge, the industry offered zero bids. Story on the Trump move: Reuters @valerievolc.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
America’s parks created the template for saving natural areas worldwide. My cover story in Outdoor America looks at the benefits these places provide for people, wildlife & the planet & the threats confronting public lands today: Let's keep public lands in public hands. www.iwla.org/publications...
March 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
America’s parks created the template for saving natural areas worldwide. My cover story in Outdoor America looks at the benefits these places provide for people, wildlife & the planet & the threats confronting public lands today: Let's keep public lands in public hands. www.iwla.org/publications...
Trump's March 1 exec order to increase logging on our PUBLIC lands to generate energy(!) + lumber: “Our inability to fully exploit our domestic timber supply has…degraded fish and wildlife habitats”? The EO would bulldoze Endangered Species Act & NEPA safeguards
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March 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Trump's March 1 exec order to increase logging on our PUBLIC lands to generate energy(!) + lumber: “Our inability to fully exploit our domestic timber supply has…degraded fish and wildlife habitats”? The EO would bulldoze Endangered Species Act & NEPA safeguards
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Nice ink. Here’s what it looks like in today’s @washingtonpost.com
March 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Nice ink. Here’s what it looks like in today’s @washingtonpost.com
Self-reflection during today’s Society of Environmental Journalists #SEJwebinar @sejorg.bsky.social. Panelists say while coverage has shifted from critters & agencies more to climate, international, indigenous topics, Trump Watch 2.0 & polarization, members continue to focus on environmental justice
February 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Self-reflection during today’s Society of Environmental Journalists #SEJwebinar @sejorg.bsky.social. Panelists say while coverage has shifted from critters & agencies more to climate, international, indigenous topics, Trump Watch 2.0 & polarization, members continue to focus on environmental justice
Crane-fly Orchid
On December’s forest floor
a solitary leaf erupts:
Tipularia discolor
its conspicuous greenery
soaking sunlight
through the bare scenery
never letting on that
its single mottled leaf
is royal purple underneath
its summer stem emerges
as a splurge of winged blooms
and namesake
On December’s forest floor
a solitary leaf erupts:
Tipularia discolor
its conspicuous greenery
soaking sunlight
through the bare scenery
never letting on that
its single mottled leaf
is royal purple underneath
its summer stem emerges
as a splurge of winged blooms
and namesake
February 11, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Crane-fly Orchid
On December’s forest floor
a solitary leaf erupts:
Tipularia discolor
its conspicuous greenery
soaking sunlight
through the bare scenery
never letting on that
its single mottled leaf
is royal purple underneath
its summer stem emerges
as a splurge of winged blooms
and namesake
On December’s forest floor
a solitary leaf erupts:
Tipularia discolor
its conspicuous greenery
soaking sunlight
through the bare scenery
never letting on that
its single mottled leaf
is royal purple underneath
its summer stem emerges
as a splurge of winged blooms
and namesake
I didn't expect a laugh when I looked up AP Stylebook recommendations on serial commas. "do not put a comma before the conjunction in most simple series: His grandchildren are Vera, Chuck and Dave."
Beatles lyrics: hardwired.
Beatles lyrics: hardwired.
January 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I didn't expect a laugh when I looked up AP Stylebook recommendations on serial commas. "do not put a comma before the conjunction in most simple series: His grandchildren are Vera, Chuck and Dave."
Beatles lyrics: hardwired.
Beatles lyrics: hardwired.
Our power grid needs help. We'll need better transmission technology, capacity & energy storage to meet demand & get more #renewable electricity onto the grid. See Grid-lock, my cover story in Outdoor America magazine #netzero #AI #datacenters #smartgrid #environment
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www.iwla.org/publications...
January 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Our power grid needs help. We'll need better transmission technology, capacity & energy storage to meet demand & get more #renewable electricity onto the grid. See Grid-lock, my cover story in Outdoor America magazine #netzero #AI #datacenters #smartgrid #environment
www.iwla.org/publications...
www.iwla.org/publications...
crane-fly orchid (Tipularia discolor) Riverbend Park along the Potomac River, Virginia. One of the few green leaves you see on the forest floor in December.
December 29, 2024 at 1:53 PM
crane-fly orchid (Tipularia discolor) Riverbend Park along the Potomac River, Virginia. One of the few green leaves you see on the forest floor in December.
“ you will be visited by three spirits”
December 24, 2024 at 2:44 AM
“ you will be visited by three spirits”
“These were not schools,” said Judi Gaiashkibos, executive director of the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs, whose relatives were sent to Indian boarding schools. “They were prison camps. They were work camps.” www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
December 23, 2024 at 8:10 PM
“These were not schools,” said Judi Gaiashkibos, executive director of the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs, whose relatives were sent to Indian boarding schools. “They were prison camps. They were work camps.” www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Congress squandered an opportunity to make a generational investment in farm conservation. On Dec. 17, they extended the budget but despite bipartisan support didn't add the available $$ for popular USDA incentive programs iwla.org/publications/news/press-release/2024/12/18/congress-fails-Farm-Bill
December 18, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Congress squandered an opportunity to make a generational investment in farm conservation. On Dec. 17, they extended the budget but despite bipartisan support didn't add the available $$ for popular USDA incentive programs iwla.org/publications/news/press-release/2024/12/18/congress-fails-Farm-Bill
We're running out of fresh water. Waste, consumption by data centers & power plants & polluted farm runoff take an immense toll. But we have technologies, policies & practices to conserve clean water for future generations. My cover story from Outdoor America magazine
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www.iwla.org/publications...
December 17, 2024 at 2:59 PM
We're running out of fresh water. Waste, consumption by data centers & power plants & polluted farm runoff take an immense toll. But we have technologies, policies & practices to conserve clean water for future generations. My cover story from Outdoor America magazine
www.iwla.org/publications...
www.iwla.org/publications...
Don Mee Choi reads at GMU from her trilogy, touching on her experience of memory, time, grief, division, war. “Grief fused by temporal magic” #poetry
November 22, 2024 at 1:09 AM
Don Mee Choi reads at GMU from her trilogy, touching on her experience of memory, time, grief, division, war. “Grief fused by temporal magic” #poetry
To understand the first chapter and continuing thread in American history, I recommend “An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States” by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. It’s a gut punch to read. Also available in the form of a graphic novel. Gift idea.
November 17, 2024 at 1:33 PM
To understand the first chapter and continuing thread in American history, I recommend “An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States” by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. It’s a gut punch to read. Also available in the form of a graphic novel. Gift idea.
Victory for endangered black-footed ferrets & black-tailed prairie dogs on Thunder Basin National Grassland, Wyoming. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals rules Forest Service failed to justify decision to expand lethal control of prairie dogs, essential ferret prey
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October 29, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Victory for endangered black-footed ferrets & black-tailed prairie dogs on Thunder Basin National Grassland, Wyoming. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals rules Forest Service failed to justify decision to expand lethal control of prairie dogs, essential ferret prey
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White-tail deer hunting in suburbia opens a vital path toward habitat restoration, sorely needed population management and healthy food. In the next issue of Outdoor America, Izaak Walton League
September 16, 2024 at 12:07 PM
White-tail deer hunting in suburbia opens a vital path toward habitat restoration, sorely needed population management and healthy food. In the next issue of Outdoor America, Izaak Walton League