Early morning, overcast sky, grassy landscape.
Who doesn’t love an extra hour of darkness in the morning? Let’s set the clocks forward another hour or two for longer morning walks before sunrise and the drive to work.
#sarcasm
"But Weatherbug says it's gonna be this cold!"
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...
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...
Post Office
Elbing, KS
Getting close to that time of year.
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.
That’s just nuts.
Webinar recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a85...
Somebody check the camera. Seems to be having a Monday.
It was a good time. That was the second field day this week. People like looking at plants.
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/...
I-80 Mile Marker 249,
10/15/2025, 4:17:50 PM
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
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
Lone Tree,
10/5/2025, 8:56:04 AM
Based on the commercials, ought to put his glasses on to see to throw.
Wagonhound (West),
10/4/2025, 10:41:02 AM
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.
City hall
Ohio, IL
Texas Tech and Fermi America are building a massive “AI campus”. There goes the drinking water. www.texastech.edu/stories/25-0...
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.
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.
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!
If it’s an EV, just leave ‘er in Havre.
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.
