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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.

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"But Weatherbug says it's gonna be this cold!"

01.02.2026 14:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Carhartt in the Movies – Brokeback Mountain (2005) On December 9th, 2005, Focus Features released the Ang Lee-directed film Brokeback Mountain, worked from a screenplay written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, and based on the short story of the…

Started a new series on the blog. Ever wondered which Carhartt coat or jacket an actor or actress wore in a particular movie or tv show? The inaugural "Carhartt in the Movies and TV" blog series post: roaming-ecologist.com/2025/12/09/c...

13.12.2025 15:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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...

18.11.2025 19:28 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Post Office
Elbing, KS

13.11.2025 19:55 👍 282 🔁 33 💬 2 📌 4
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11.11.2025 13:43 👍 781 🔁 128 💬 15 📌 8
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Getting close to that time of year.

08.11.2025 20:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I concur.

07.11.2025 00:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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.

02.11.2025 21:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That’s just nuts.

25.10.2025 15:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Webinar recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a85...

22.10.2025 13:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Somebody check the camera. Seems to be having a Monday.

20.10.2025 17:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It was a good time. That was the second field day this week. People like looking at plants.

17.10.2025 15:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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/...

17.10.2025 05:53 👍 94 🔁 34 💬 1 📌 2
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I-80 Mile Marker 249,
10/15/2025, 4:17:50 PM

15.10.2025 22:17 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Coyote standing in golden grass in profile with head turned to look at the camera.

Coyote standing in golden grass in profile with head turned to look at the camera.

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

15.10.2025 00:42 👍 738 🔁 81 💬 25 📌 2
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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

06.10.2025 07:29 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Lone Tree,
10/5/2025, 8:56:04 AM

05.10.2025 14:56 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Based on the commercials, ought to put his glasses on to see to throw.

04.10.2025 22:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Wagonhound (West),
10/4/2025, 10:41:02 AM

04.10.2025 16:41 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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.

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.

04.10.2025 14:58 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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City hall
Ohio, IL

02.10.2025 14:30 👍 444 🔁 83 💬 7 📌 13
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TTU System and Fermi America Announce the World’s Largest Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus | Texas Tech University System

Texas Tech and Fermi America are building a massive “AI campus”. There goes the drinking water. www.texastech.edu/stories/25-0...

01.10.2025 14:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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.

30.09.2025 18:52 👍 6639 🔁 1503 💬 80 📌 78

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.

30.09.2025 01:31 👍 4201 🔁 1076 💬 75 📌 64
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Smallest Herbivores Create the Biggest Impact for Grassland Forage

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!

30.09.2025 17:04 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

If it’s an EV, just leave ‘er in Havre.

30.09.2025 02:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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

30.09.2025 00:32 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Agreed. These blocking patterns are getting old, quick. Give me northwest flow aloft and lots of deep troughs.

29.09.2025 21:01 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The best hoe I’ve ever spent money on. 10/10.

26.09.2025 22:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0