Thank you, Pam, for hosting this week! Great questions, and I'm already wishing I had plans for visiting #PublicLands this coming weekend. #ParkChat

Map of the proposed Toutle Mountains NRCA

Snow covered Spud Mountain.

The Toutle Mountains should be designated as a @wadnr.bsky.social Natural Resource Conservation Area, with dispersed tent campsites and dozens of miles of spectacular hiking trails. There is huge opportunities here to expand tourism and outdoor recreation in the region. #publiclands #parkchat

Once You’ve Seen the Meadow The piece celebrates the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest's beauty and emphasizes the need to protect public lands, reflecting gratitude for nature's support during group walks despite challenging weather.

#Okanogan-WenatcheeNationalForest #naturesbeauty and emphasizes the need to protect #publiclands, reflecting gratitude for nature's support during group walks despite challenging weather. #napowrimo #napowrimo26 #poetry #poetry26 #verselove #clmooc #poetrysays

Photo looking across green rolling grassy hills with a trail passing through, and oak trees, and shrubs on either side. Sky overhead is blue. Hills in background have dense tree cover.

Photo: view across tree covered hill, toward distant mountains, just after sunset. Lowest valleys are filled with hazy mist, in the sky in the distance is a light pink grading into yellow orange.

Photo: purple chinese houses, a delicate white flower with lavender-colored accents

Photo of light greenish-white flower, a white globe lily

Lovely quick camping trip down to Henry W Coe State Park. Realized I hadn't been to the HQ area in a few years. Enjoyed some wildflowers, great views, and a rowdy dawn bird chorus. The acorn woodpeckers are the background soundtrack everywhere.

#PublicLands

NaPoWriMo Once You’ve Seen the Meadow The piece celebrates the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest's beauty and emphasizes the need to protect public lands, reflecting gratitude for nature's support during group walks despite challenging weather.

#Okanogan-WenatcheeNationalForest #naturesbeauty and emphasizes the need to protect #publiclands, reflecting gratitude for nature's support during group walks despite challenging weather. #napowrimo #napowrimo26 #poetry #poetry26 #verselove #clmooc #poetrysays

Bison that belong to you and me and roam on OUR #PublicLands - to be thrown off for welfare cattle ranchers that make private company private profits.

Check out our interview with Rangers of the Lost Park!

DEBUNKED! Dinosaurs, Fossils & Climate Change - Matt Shreero & Max Scott! | Rangers of the Lost Park
youtu.be/RsxrS3kXUS0

#paleontology #climatechange #disinformation #podcast #science #publiclands

Gila Wilderness

#publiclands #newmexico #vanlife #nationalforrest #landscapes #mountains

🚨🚨 - A GROSS NUMBER OF DEMOCRATS ARE SUPPORTING THE SO-CALLED "SAVE OUR FORESTS ACT"

which is nothing more than a logging industry generated bill that destroys our great sequoia forests.

CALL YOUR SENATORS TODAY AND DEMAND THEY VOTE 'NO' ON THIS GIVEAWAY TO INDUSTRY.

#PublicLands

They Poisoned This River Once. The Upper Pecos carries the highest water quality protection New Mexico can give. The last mine here killed 90,000 trout. The cleanup still isn't finished. The federal government just opened it to a f...

We need to save the Upper Pecos #Watershed, NM, again! 🏞 Fed Gov't didn't listen to voters (again): FLOOD DOUG BURGUM WITH CALLS + EMAILS!!! Right now, the protections end May 6th 😠😭
Contact: www.doi.gov/contact-us#n...

#Pecos #nationalparks #usfs #parks #publiclands #rivers #environment

While the public commenting period is tech done, please contact the Dept of the Int: Call, message, socials - any way you can, please let the Fed know that nobody wants more drilling on public lands - flood them w calls!
(Contact link below)
@protectparks.bsky.social #nationalparks #publiclands

#PublicLands

I just submitted my public comment to keep the protective buffer around Chaco Cultural Historic Park. I was a volunteer there in 1977. BLM gave a seven-day comment period to undo protections. protectchaco.org/over-15000-p...
#ChacoCultureNHP #BLMNational #ProtectChaco
#nmpol #PublicLands

A MORE THAN JUST PARKS INVESTIGATION They Poisoned This River Once. The Upper Pecos carries the highest water quality protection New Mexico can give. The last mine here killed 90,000 trout. Eighty-seven years later, the cleanup still isn't finished. On April 6, 2026, the federal government cancelled its protection and opened the door to do it all over again. READ THE FULL INVESTIGATION → SCROLL TO EXPLORE SUBSCRIBE

A photo of the pristine Pecos River. Holy Ghost Creek. The only place on Earth the Holy Ghost Ipomopsis exists. UPPER PECOS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION TAKE ACTION i.! WITHDRAWAL BOUNDARY PECOS WILDERNESS

morethanjustparks.com SHARE WHAT YOU CAN DO RIGHT NOW Call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121 Ask for your senator's office. Tell them: You support the Pecos Watershed Protection Act (S. 1319 / H.R. 2727) The Upper Pecos carries New Mexico's highest water quality protection (Outstanding National Resource Waters) • The last mine here killed 90,000+ trout and the cleanup still isn't finished after 87 years • The federal government cancelled protection without public comment on April 6, 2026 • All 163,483 acres open to new mining claims on May 6, 2026 READ THE FULL INVESTIGATION COPY LINK TO SHARE SUBSCRIBE FOR UPDATES FOR PRESS & JOURNALISTS All facts below are sourced from federal records and state filings. Links provided for verification. WHAT HAPPENED DOI cancelled 2-year mining pause on 163,483 acres of the Upper Pecos watershed (91 FR 17305, April 6, 2026) WHAT OPENS All acres available for new hardrock m MDT. Mav 6. 2026 i WITHDRAWAL BOUNDARY PECOS WILDERNESS SUBSCRIBE

The hits just keep coming. Migrating birds rely on the Pecos River during their thousands of miles semi-annual migrations.

#PublicLands #Conservation #CleanWater #ParkChat @repstansbury.bsky.social #SheShed @cortezmasto.senate.gov

morethanjustparks.com/upper-pecos-...

Takeover of federal lands could cost Arizona $800 million, study says On Arizona Public Lands Day, a new report examines the costs and the losses to the state for taking over federal lands.

Some Arizonan politicians have long pushed for the state to take over federal lands. That... is not a good idea.

My latest for @azcentral.com:

@nature.org @azwildlifefed.bsky.social #PublicLands

My comment at today's #Washington State Board of Natural Resources Meeting: youtube.com/shorts/zKiiH...

When will @daveupthegrovecpl.bsky.social listen to the people who elected him?

When will @wadnr.bsky.social begin managing our #publiclands in a sustainable and responsible manner?

Converging Lines shows off modern architecture on the Las Vegas Strip

The Las Vegas Strip Architecture, “Converging Lines”

kathi-isserman.pixels.com/featured/con...

#ayearforart
#buyandsellart
#blueskyartists
#blueskyphotographers
#EastCoastKin
#art
#digitalart
#publiclands
#lasvegasstrip
#modernarchitecture
#nevadatourism

LWVSFC's second candidate forum will be held Tuesday, April 28 featuring the three Democratic candidates for state public lands commissioner. Come meet the candidates at 5:30 pm at The Food Depot.
#election
#vote
#publiclands

Protect our #PublicLands. Once they've destroyed them, they never return to their original state.

#PublicLands

The War on Public Lands: How War Changes How Public Lands Are Used On April 6, 1917, the United States officially entered World War I and the pillage and plunder of public lands began

On April 6, 1917, the United States officially entered World War I.

The consequences were instantaneous and massive—not just to the lives of ordinary Americans and soldiers but also to America's public lands.

#publiclands #protectpubliclands

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, help @protectparks.bsky.social (and LUE Outdoors) save Chaco Cultural Historical National Park from new drilling 🙏🏜🙏

#oil #NationalParks #parks #publiclands #environment #history #indigenouslands #culture #outdoorlife #savepubliclands

National Wildlife Refuges: A Birdwatcher’s Paradise - The National Wildlife Federation Blog National wildlife refuges offer some of the best opportunities to dodge the crowds, get outside, and observe birds in their native habitats.

Thank you to @nationalwildlife.bsky.social for featuring some of my photos and stories from our incredible U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refuges. blog.nwf.org/2026/04/nati... 🪶

#birds #birdphotography #publiclands

Cattle dog sitting behind tall blueish wildflowers

Beautiful Spring day! Percy the #AustralianCattleDog with some lovely wildflowers!

#PublicLands #BloomScrolling

Our Forests Are Being Taken. SAVEUSFS.ORG 193 million acres of America's public lands face unprecedented attacks. It's time to pay attention.

Handy messaging site to pressure companies to join the fight against dismantling the #ForestService #SaveTheTrees #PublicLands #CallYourReps
saveusfs.org?fbclid=IwZnR...

Forest Service's Grand Rapids research office slated to close The office is one of 47 research and development facilities closing amid a major reorganization of the agency. The Superior and Chippewa offices and their staffing are not impacted.

🌲📉The U.S. Forest Service plans to close its Grand Rapids research office—pulling scientists out of the very forests they study. That hurts rural jobs and weakens research that protects Minnesota’s forest ecosystems.

#RuralMinnesota #Forests #PublicLands #ScienceMatters #RuralResearch #MNForests

Valley of Fire is a beautiful state park in Nevada

Valley of Fire in Nevada “Empty Road”

kathi-isserman.pixels.com/featured/emp...

#ayearforart
#buyandsellart
#blueskyartists
#blueskyphotographers
#EastCoastKin
#art
#digitalart
#publiclands
#valleyoffire
#landscapephotography
#nevadatourism

Schmidt Creek Legacy Forest.

Send comments to WADNR by noon today to stop clearcut logging of legacy forests on our #PublicLands: wadnr.commentinput.com?id=Trb5Sx2kfN

The following timber sales contain legacy forests, and must be stopped:

Schmidt Creek Sorts
Baby Rattle
Q Atomic
Only Ferns
Kingfisher VRH VDT

Help protect polar bear cubs from unnecessary harm

Nothing is exempt from US government harassment except mediocre white male nationalists. And oligarchs.

Read and comment to Fish & Wildlife by April 8.
#Alaska #PolarBears #Wildlife #PublicLands #SheShed

earthjustice.org/action/help-...

black and white film photo of a red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) on a cattail

The birds are coming back to the park for the season!

Olympus OM-2, Zuiko 500mm F/8

#FilmPhotography #BWphotography #IlfordHP5 #Rodinal #MirrorLens #ReflexLens #birds #cattails #PublicLands #Montana