The Roaming Ecologist
@roamingecologist.bsky.social
Rangeland restoration & native seed source development. Pro-land, pro-union, pro-labor, pro-fire. Of course tweets are mine. If you can’t explain it, you don’t know it.
Pinned
If you mow & graze young plantings during establishment, you don’t get to complain “natives don’t work.”
“Hoof action” doesn’t build soil or increase germination on degraded sites.
Photos: 2yrs post-plant. Seed mixes (not my recc.) lack early successional component, also a contributing factor.
“Hoof action” doesn’t build soil or increase germination on degraded sites.
Photos: 2yrs post-plant. Seed mixes (not my recc.) lack early successional component, also a contributing factor.
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Parcel 0712 is part of a complex of oil and gas leases in ecologically valuable sagebrush-steppe that the Bureau of Land Management has proposed for auction in June.
"It's the largest lek on the planet, at least that I'm aware of," a biologist said.
Read more ➡️ wyofile.com/drilling-lea...
"It's the largest lek on the planet, at least that I'm aware of," a biologist said.
Read more ➡️ wyofile.com/drilling-lea...
November 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Parcel 0712 is part of a complex of oil and gas leases in ecologically valuable sagebrush-steppe that the Bureau of Land Management has proposed for auction in June.
"It's the largest lek on the planet, at least that I'm aware of," a biologist said.
Read more ➡️ wyofile.com/drilling-lea...
"It's the largest lek on the planet, at least that I'm aware of," a biologist said.
Read more ➡️ wyofile.com/drilling-lea...
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Post Office
Elbing, KS
Elbing, KS
November 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Post Office
Elbing, KS
Elbing, KS
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Getting close to that time of year.
November 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Getting close to that time of year.
I concur.
generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I concur.
A trend I find myself pondering a lot is: Workers in the USA do not wear duck canvas workwear anymore. Growing up, I was surrounded by "brown ducks" donned by the working class. Then the seemed to disappear overnight. Carhartt was the last holdout mass producing brown ducks.
November 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
A trend I find myself pondering a lot is: Workers in the USA do not wear duck canvas workwear anymore. Growing up, I was surrounded by "brown ducks" donned by the working class. Then the seemed to disappear overnight. Carhartt was the last holdout mass producing brown ducks.
Webinar recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a85...
October 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Webinar recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a85...
Somebody check the camera. Seems to be having a Monday.
October 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Somebody check the camera. Seems to be having a Monday.
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As droughts become longer and more intense, their toll on ecosystems could be far greater than we thought. Our new paper in @science.org shows how prolonged & extreme droughts cause dramatic, cumulative losses in ecosystem productivity across the globe www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 17, 2025 at 5:53 AM
As droughts become longer and more intense, their toll on ecosystems could be far greater than we thought. Our new paper in @science.org shows how prolonged & extreme droughts cause dramatic, cumulative losses in ecosystem productivity across the globe www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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I-80 Mile Marker 249,
10/15/2025, 4:17:50 PM
10/15/2025, 4:17:50 PM
October 15, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I-80 Mile Marker 249,
10/15/2025, 4:17:50 PM
10/15/2025, 4:17:50 PM
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We both paused to take a look at each other and then we both went about our business. Amazing to watch this coyote just disappear into the grass. Magical creatures #mammals
October 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM
We both paused to take a look at each other and then we both went about our business. Amazing to watch this coyote just disappear into the grass. Magical creatures #mammals
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New study in @universitypress.cambridge.org #CambridgePrismsDrylands reveals how landscape- & patch-scale processes shape the “fertile island effect” in the Chihuahuan Desert, illustrating the importance of spatial heterogeneity in drylands doi.org/10.1017/dry.... 📷by Patricia Zumsteg @unsplash.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:29 AM
New study in @universitypress.cambridge.org #CambridgePrismsDrylands reveals how landscape- & patch-scale processes shape the “fertile island effect” in the Chihuahuan Desert, illustrating the importance of spatial heterogeneity in drylands doi.org/10.1017/dry.... 📷by Patricia Zumsteg @unsplash.com
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Lone Tree,
10/5/2025, 8:56:04 AM
10/5/2025, 8:56:04 AM
October 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Lone Tree,
10/5/2025, 8:56:04 AM
10/5/2025, 8:56:04 AM
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Wagonhound (West),
10/4/2025, 10:41:02 AM
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October 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Wagonhound (West),
10/4/2025, 10:41:02 AM
10/4/2025, 10:41:02 AM
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A small herd of pronghorn that lives in the 'Golden Triangle' — migrants that winter near Interstate 80 — pause for a moment in the morning light.
Home on the range ‘east of Farson’ - WyoFile
A small herd of pronghorn that live in the ‘Golden Triangle’ pause for a moment in the morning light.
wyofile.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
A small herd of pronghorn that lives in the 'Golden Triangle' — migrants that winter near Interstate 80 — pause for a moment in the morning light.
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City hall
Ohio, IL
Ohio, IL
October 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
City hall
Ohio, IL
Ohio, IL
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Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.
September 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.
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I do not want to enable location services. I do not want to create an account. I do not want to sign up for special offers and news about your product. I would like to engage in a simple transaction where I give you money in exchange for a good.
September 30, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I do not want to enable location services. I do not want to create an account. I do not want to sign up for special offers and news about your product. I would like to engage in a simple transaction where I give you money in exchange for a good.
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A new Smithsonian Institute study found that prairie dog towns do the heavy lifting when it comes to improving soil nutrition. Another reminder that essential grazers include more than bison and cattle!
Smallest Herbivores Create the Biggest Impact for Grassland Forage
www.si.edu
September 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
A new Smithsonian Institute study found that prairie dog towns do the heavy lifting when it comes to improving soil nutrition. Another reminder that essential grazers include more than bison and cattle!
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Missed our last GPCN Prairie Webinar? We've got you covered! Check out the full recording here: youtu.be/Xp1nqCMhCTk #prairie
September 30, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Missed our last GPCN Prairie Webinar? We've got you covered! Check out the full recording here: youtu.be/Xp1nqCMhCTk #prairie
Agreed. These blocking patterns are getting old, quick. Give me northwest flow aloft and lots of deep troughs.
Dear atmosphere, it's September 29.
We don't need it to be in the mid-80s on the shore of Lake Superior. We don't need it to be almost 90 in southeastern Wisconsin.
We want cool, crisp mornings, mild afternoons, and partly cloudy skies.
Summer is over. Act like it. 🥵
We don't need it to be in the mid-80s on the shore of Lake Superior. We don't need it to be almost 90 in southeastern Wisconsin.
We want cool, crisp mornings, mild afternoons, and partly cloudy skies.
Summer is over. Act like it. 🥵
September 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Agreed. These blocking patterns are getting old, quick. Give me northwest flow aloft and lots of deep troughs.
The best hoe I’ve ever spent money on. 10/10.
September 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The best hoe I’ve ever spent money on. 10/10.
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I knew this project was underway; looking forward to reading this paper that has come out of it: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Indigenous fire stewardship shaped North American Great Lakes forests | PNAS
Interest in bringing Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Western Science together
to enhance climate and landscape resilience is growing rap...
www.pnas.org
September 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I knew this project was underway; looking forward to reading this paper that has come out of it: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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We don't actually need any of these products
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
September 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
We don't actually need any of these products