A group of ~50 young people gathers around three leaders on a hill overlooking blue waters of Yellow Bay of Flathead Lake.
@umflbs.bsky.social is welcoming students from the area to the station for the annual Mussel Walk to raise awareness of invasive species, especially the risk of zebra/quagga mussels to keep the lake mussel-free. Read about previous events:
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The Forest Service just told Congress to go pound sand. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz appeared before the House Appropriations Committee this week and made it clear the agency is moving forward with
The baffling ecological disaster that's killing America’s freshwater mussels | Scientific American share.google/pTWzBnZBssaZ...
As soon as today, the US Senate will vote on a House resolution that allows copper mining by a Chilean company near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The Boundary Waters is the most-visited wilderness area in the country, and it cannot be replaced.
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We got our SaveUSFS.org website updated! A lot of new brands have joined!
2,599 applicants offered NSF GRFP awards! Congrats to all the NSF GRFP award winners and recipients of honorable mention. https://www.research.gov/grfp/AwardeeList.do?method=loadAwardeeList
Massive and important positive news...
#NSF #GRFP awards are out.
2,599 awards!
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1,440 Honorable Mentions.
A significant boost from last year.
Congratulations to the winners (and HM-s)!
& many thanks to the reviewers & program officers who made this possible.
www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...
Imagine trusting science to bring astronauts to the moon and back but not trusting science to develop safe vaccines.
The EPA is forcing 124 of its scientists and researchers to accept reassignments and 35 of them are being told to pack up and move to a new city if they want to keep their jobs.
On a personal note, the Bio Station has been hugely important to my own life and career. I've been both a student and professor there! The photos are from my 2023 Stream Ecology course.
Please give if you can, and share this message!
You can support hands-on science education through a gift to the OU Biological Station. Every gift makes a difference.
one.givesooner.org/BioStation
The Station has trained generations of students in ecology, natural history, conservation biology. Students love the hands on courses, and the lifetime friendships they make. The skills students learn help them achieve multiple career paths conservation, medicine & veterinary medicine,
The University of Oklahoma Biological Station is an amazing teaching and research field station on the shores of Lake Texoma on the Oklahoma-Texas border. I'm proud to be an OU Giving Day Ambassador for this fine facility.
“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.”
– John Muir
Rocky Mountain National Park Colorado
Photographer: Erik Stensland Photography
Migratory freshwater fish are in steep decline due to pressures along their paths, including dams, altered flows, habitat degradation, pollution and unsustainable fishing.
Restoring rivers and habitats cannot wait.
Read the #CMSFreshwaterFishes report: www.cms.int/publication/...
April 6, 2026.
Articles of Impeachment introduced.
www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr...
Scary article and scary quote:
"Trump had previously shown respect for the devastating consequences of nuclear use, but [the nuclear weapons expert] added: 'I don’t know how strong that respect is when he is losing the war and his mind at the same time.'"
www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr...
The LTER program specifically supports experiments and monitoring to study processes that play out over much longer time-frames than a typical three-to-five-year NSF grant. It's basic infrastructure for how we understand biodiversity... and how biodiversity responds to long-term environmental change
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NSF LTER program “archived”.
LTER=“Long Term Ecological Research”.
This program has been incredibly successful, incredibly frugal for what they accomplish, and…of course…targeted by evil know-nothings.
My heart is breaking.
Available soon! Jeb Byers, April Blakeslee, and myself gently twisted the arms of a few dozen of our brilliant colleagues to put together this new text on "The Ecology and Evolution of Marine Parasites and Disease", should be out in June. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico is a UNESCO World Heritage Site containing over a thousand years of Indigenous history ancient ruins, sacred sites, and cultural landmarks built by the ancestors of today’s Pueblo peoples.
Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.
-John Muir
Maroon Bells Colorado
Photographer: Daniel Forster Photography
"Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?"
-- Jane Goodall, born #OTD 1934
The Trump administration just did something that has never been done in the 50-year history of the Endangered Species Act.
It’s easy to forget how much land used to be…wet. Like very wet.
#Wetlands were the OG way to store/filter #water, while also sustaining #biodiversity & huge #ecosystems.
But, like many great things, we killed it.
New long-form essay: Killing the Sponge 👇🏞️
tnature.substack.com/p/killing-th...
Learning water color painting.Oklahoma state lizard and some Oklahoma darters.
