One of the only news sites dedicated to national parks to close National Parks Traveler plans to shutter without new funding to continue its work.

National Parks Traveler plans to shutter without new funding to continue its work.

Ok, I've taken your challenge - 11 "wild words", one sentence. I'm sure it's full of errors, maybe someone else can give it a try #parkchat

That would be a wild sentence! #parkchat

Thanks @yellowstonenpgeek.bsky.social ! This was a really cool set of words! (I have no more superlatives) #parkchat

A8 Right now our best access to feed our opacarphillyis a State wildlife preserve near Mt Vernon WA. Views of Puget Sound, Olympic Mts, Cascades, Mt Baker & lots of birds #parkchat

Nice photo! #parkchat

A10 Most places once I've been able to get far enough into an area that the man made distractions are gone. #parkchat

A9 Probably playing in the snow somewhere. This apricity is from the sun peaking through firs on Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park #parkchat

A5 Sign me up as a nemophilist! One of my favorite forests is the Kaibab NF on the north rim of the Grand Canyon. Its been through many, many fires, but last summers was brutal. Would really like to visit & see how it made out #parkchat

A7 so that smell of summer rain on sage in a desert area is "petrichor"! Immediately brings back a drive west from Capitol Reef NP during a summer storm #parkchat

A6 Quaking Aspen! No photos, but wandering though a forest of white-bark Aspen with bangleing leaves says your about 6 to 9000 feet up a mountain in an intermountain west forest. #parkchat

Australia rainforests! Where? Have you been to Daintree National Park? #parkchat

A4 Komorebi! Perfect word to describe spending time in remnant New Zealand forest preserves (so much has been cut & lost) filled with tree ferns, giant moss covered beech trees & rare birds, protected from invasive predators like the Kaka (parrot) below #Parkchat

A rutilant Sunrise over the south Pacific Ocean with bright orange clouds, silhouette palms and ridgeline

A rutilant sunrise from Pago Pago Harbor, American Samoa - The National Park of American Samoa is up on that ridge line, just a little to the left of the photo. #parkchat

Rocky cliffs of Taiaroa where Royal Albatross nest, near Dunedin NZ

Love "imbricate", would it apply to rugged coastlines? #parkchat

A1 Not sure I love roads, but getting ready for a big drive south to the CA Bay area, with a side trip east to a well known park in the Sierras. Otherwise, I head towards S Utah. #parkchat

Checking in from a cold & stormy spring day in western WA State. Looking forward to using my words! #parkchat

Sweeping Forest Service Overhaul Puts Public Lands at Risk, Critics Warn The USDA plans to slash the Forest Service's research program by more than 70 percent and do away with its century-old regional structure.

Forest Service "reorganization" that will further gut short-staffed agency is not going over well with hunters and anglers.

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Rebuilding SR 504 and reconnecting visitors to Mount St. Helens | WSDOT share.google/fIHM0pQmNN8O...

Looking forward to this topic! #parkchat

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Humm. #parkchat

Most prescient, clear/eyed work of writing I’ve read on reorg.

Read it.

Then act.

“Call your senators. Call your representative. Not next week or later. Now.

Tell them this is not a reorganization — it’s the destruction of a federal agency by executive fiat and that Congress must intervene.”

Treating salmon-killing tire chemicals YouTube video by King County Natural Resources and Parks

These are the big questions that researchers are trying to address right now, with active testing of stormwater runoff from all types of roads over the winter.
Here is a little more info:

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Crater Lake National Park snow levels hit a record low this spring Researchers are tracking troubling shifts in snow and lake conditions.

Researchers are tracking troubling shifts in snow and lake conditions.

Seattle City Light is set to spend millions on fish passage, habitat restoration and compensation to tribes in the coming decades after the city’s leaders greenlit a massive agreement concerning its dams on the upper Skagit River on Tuesday, April 7.

Every tire produces a chemical that kills coho salmon. Can scientists pump the brakes? What do you do when one of the most lethal substances to aquatic life emanates from every tire on the road?

KUOW - Every tire produces a chemical that kills coho salmon. Can scientists pump the brakes? share.google/pRerzSf0wdh3...

Absolute banger from @samforstag.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DW7Z2ym...

Seabird! (to the tune of Free Bird)

Dry weather is so overrated.

Enjoying every nice day right now, terrified of what summer will bring.