Some more:
Vesper Meadow
KS Wild

Great! Here are a few:
Siskiyou Mountain Club
Pollinator Project Rogue Valley
Rogue Food Unites
Rogue Valley Audubon
Rogue Climate
SOCAN

Thank you for reading, and welcome to beautiful southern Oregon. There are many great local orgs who would welcome your involvement!

Supreme Court Pauses Ruling Requiring Rehiring of 16,000 Probationary Workers A federal judge in California had ordered the Trump administration to rehire government employees fired as part of its efforts to slash the federal work force.

The latest chess move in the mass firing of federal employees. (Guess who the pawns are?) A separate order requiring that many of the 16,000 fired probationary workers be rehired remains in place--for now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

Funding cuts and firings strain Southern Oregon's national forests Staffing uncertainties and delayed reimbursements threaten to gut the U.S. Forest Service’s capacity to care for the 1.8 million-acre Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest.

I wrote about the ripple effects of the federal freeze and the firing of federal employees. My story focuses on the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. The scenario is playing out everywhere.
#recreation #nationalforests #federalemployees #DOGE #Trump #fundingfreeze
www.ijpr.org/environment-...

Beavers reintroduced to southwest Oregon to restore wetlands Project Beaver worked with the Bureau of Land Management to restore the large rodents to the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.

I always love writing about beavers. Rep. Pam Marsh said it best: "Beavers are cute and interesting, but they are also really effective operators on the landscape."

#beavers #restoration #VesperMeadow #ProjectBeaver #watershedrestoration #wetmeadow #CascadeSiskiyou
www.opb.org/article/2025...

Farmers Feeling the Pain After Conservation Funding Frozen The Trump administration, with DOGE, is pulling the rug from under growers and producers across the country

My latest for Sierra is about how the freeze in federal ag grants is affecting farmers all over the country.
#agriculture #farmers #conservation #fundingfreeze #NRCS #climatechange #InflationReductionAct #DEI
www.sierraclub.org/sierra/trump...

Board Chair, Special Counsel Who Ordered USDA Rehires Also Fired The Merit Systems Protection Board issued an order Wednesday requiring USDA to bring back nearly 5,700 fired probationary workers. Yet, the board chair who made the ruling and the special counsel who ...

Good news: Merit Systems Protection Board chair ordered 5,700 USDA employees be (temporarily) rehired.

Bad news: Trump is trying to fire that board chair.

Good news: U.S. District judge says he can't.

To be continued, no doubt.

www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/...

AGU has joined a lawsuit challenging the firing of probationary employees at federal agencies.

These actions weaken science, harm public health & the environment, and threaten national security. 🧵 #StandWithScience

McIver Introduces Bill to Reinstate DOGE-Fired Federal Workers with Back Pay Watch the full press conference here

The bill was introduced by Rep. LaMonica McIver of NJ. Here's the press release.
mciver.house.gov/media/press-...

NFFE Endorses Legislation to Reinstate Illegally Terminated Civil Servants | National Federation of Federal Employees The MERIT Act would reinstate with back pay federal employees who were terminated as part of DOGE’s ongoing mass firings.

The MERIT Act, introduced by House Democrats, would mandate that the probationary federal workers fired by DOGE be rehired--with back pay.
nffe.org/press-releas...

Meet the Passionate Advocates Trying to Save Western Monarch Butterflies • The Revelator A network of advocates is doing everything they can to mitigate the dangers and unravel mysteries about monarch movements and behavior.

It's easy to feel disempowered right now. But one person can make a difference. Read about these Western monarch conservationists for inspiration!

#WesternMonarch #conservation #climatechange #threatenedspecies #XercesSociety #monarchadvocates #pollinators
therevelator.org/save-monarch...

Western monarchs are fascinating. So are the people who love them.

Southern Oregon farmers and ranchers hit by federal funding freeze In his drive to slash government spending, President Donald Trump has frozen or terminated millions of dollars in federal agriculture grant contracts. This is leaving farmers, ranchers, and landowners...

My latest for JPR &OPB is about how local producers here in Southern Oregon are being affected by the funding freeze on federal conservation grants.
#agriculture #fundingfreeze #InflationReductionAct #NRCS
www.opb.org/article/2025...

Was happy to talk to @julietgrable.bsky.social, alongside Alex Hall of @uclaioes.bsky.social and others.

Highlighting the ongoing complexity of getting accurate, compelling and actionable information to folks on the condition of their individual drinking water safety.

LA Fires Spark Confusion and Concern Over Water Quality and Supply A wave of online disinformation, propagated across social media, compounded the crisis

The second story in my LA fires series focuses on water supply and how urban wildfires affect water quality.
www.sierraclub.org/sierra/la-fi...

5 Ways the Farm Bill Can Help Fix America’s Ag System Here is what land and climate advocates say can be done to make farming more sustainable and equitable

Working on a story about how the federal grants freeze is affecting local producers who have grants through NRCS. Seems like a good time to repost my Sierra story about how the Farm Bill could help further incentivize best practice. Seems very distant now. www.sierraclub.org/sierra/5-way...

Sen. Ron Wyden on Elon Musk: ‘I’d call that a coup’ The Oregon senator thinks Democrats need to go to war with Elon Musk.

If it quacks like a duck....I'd only add, if it goose-steps, it's a Nazi.

"Trump and Musk are ignoring the checks and balances that are the foundation of our republic. And for all practical purposes, I’d call that a coup."

Proud and grateful for my Oregon senators.
www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

Um, who's out of their lane here? Speaker Mike J agrees with Vance that “judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power.”

Seems they've both forgotten it's not the Executive Branch's job to legislate. Oh, right...Congressional Republicans have forgotten that, too.

Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway. The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to die.”

President Trump ended a first-of-its-kind assessment of land, water and wildlife across the U.S. that its leader called "too important to die," weeks before the study was set to be completed.

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

I have a friend who writes for a federal agency who's having to censor a story on a certain threatened pollinator because it mentions climate change, which is a major factor in said pollinator's decline. Ridiculous.

Instead of a chicken in every pot, it's a fox in every henhouse.

Been dealing with #Snowmageddon and power outages for two days...anything happen while I was gone?

Me trying to keep up with the horrors flowing out of the White House...

I will tell Brint about this. He's currently looking at kits for something called a Pocket Ship.

Were you going to buy or build?

My guy will always have boat lust. It ebbs and flows, but it always comes back!

Actual convo w/husband last night:

Me: Whatcha looking at?

B: Sailboat plans

Me: Should I be worried?

B: Probably

This is already getting dangerously stupid...
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

Important and helpful thread about the EO freezing IRA and BIL funds. Thank you, @zealan.bsky.social; this has been incredibly confusing for those of us trying to report on the fall-out.