Park archeologists would put me down if I did that 😔

The rapid shifts from burning hot to freezing point are kicking my ass

They let me in the lava tubes

Big iron (magnetic reader) on his hip

Preserve is so good right now

We avoided collecting any listed species in the area, we just needed a permit to collect/dig up wildflowers

Four years ago I was collecting as an intern/baby botanist for this wildflower show, and now I’m taking my interns to help collect and ID plants for the show :,)

All in a days work
(w/collection permits)

Also I feel like I need to say this with how things are. But I have a permit to collect specimens to be used for education purposes in a wildflower show, please do not collect wildflowers for your own pleasure!

Saw my first fasciated larkspur (D. parishii) today. (Left fasciated right normal)

A short visit to the western Mojave to collect wildflowers

It smells so artificial it sometimes freaks me out

Found where they’re hiding all the grape soda lupine

Pinus palustris was my study species for my undergraduate research project! I miss seeing them and gopher torts everyday. Glad there’s people working in those ecosystems who are passionate about conservation

True not everything is soulless after federal! But I would not sleep right at night if I had Mojave desert tortoise/joshua tree blood on my hands

I am going to be a roach for as long as I can for the parks inventory program before I resort to soulless work

Absolutely love talking to federal turned contractor people who immediately tell me my job is on the chopping block when I tell them what I do 🥰❤️🥳

Las Vegas bear poppy!

Early August most likely (I’m expecting a lot of Wes Anderson shots while we’re working in Great Basin NP this summer)

The entire research arm of the Forest Service being killed, “Because a scientist who says you can’t log that watershed without destroying it is inconvenient. A lab that documents the damage from mining runoff or road-building or clear-cutting is an enemy. And enemies get eliminated.”

Got the chance to visit one of my favorite plants around Las Vegas today 🥰

Made the mistake of bringing a ten dollar Albertsons sub into the field and now my crew is doing aesthetic Wes Anderson edits of me 😔😭

Forest Service overhaul sows confusion, concern - High Country News In the Trump administration’s reorganization of the struggling agency, painful echoes of BLM’s past moves.

In the Trump administration’s reorganization of the struggling agency, painful echoes of BLM’s past moves.

God damn you have your hands full 😵‍💫

Seeing an endangered tortoise walking around today after not seeing one for over a year was so emotional. But seeing that all the flowers in the area that it was going to eat had all gone into seed was devastating.

A glimpse of spring before the roar of summer

Happy to be alive at the same as the most majestic creature within the Mojave Desert

I know I spent like every waking moment I had running around all the blooms across the Mojave this spring, but god they went so quickly this year I feel like I barely got to see them

Ms. Rachel Says ‘I Am Political’ as She Fights to Close ICE Facility in Texas That’s Detaining Children: ‘It’s Political to Believe Every Child Is Equal’ Ms. Rachel is fighting to close the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas, where ICE is detaining children and their parents.

Apart from being simply right on a moral and ethical level, Ms. Rachel is a content creator par excellence in the digital era/Trump era—for both children and adults—when we seem obsessed with ~ influencing ~ but rarely talk about the people who are really the fuck doing it right.

The California-Nevada border has so many surprises to share if you know where to go