Colorado Carol 🌻🌲🏞️
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I support brown bears, bees, birds, rivers, public lands, and democracy.
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Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed . . . One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world.
Wallace Stegner, 'Wilderness Letter'
Wallace Stegner, 'Wilderness Letter'
My brother who is suffering from dementia was recently moved to a care home after his wife and daughter made the hardest decision they could not keep him safe at home. Last night my SIL got a call from him and the caregiver said he is frightened by his confusion. And that has broken my heart.
December 3, 2025 at 1:39 AM
My brother who is suffering from dementia was recently moved to a care home after his wife and daughter made the hardest decision they could not keep him safe at home. Last night my SIL got a call from him and the caregiver said he is frightened by his confusion. And that has broken my heart.
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NEW: A @propublica.org and @highcountrynews.org investigation found that government programs supporting grazing on public lands prop up a wealthy few while harming the environment. The Trump administration is supercharging the system.
Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab.
A ProPublica and High Country News investigation found that government programs supporting grazing on public lands prop up a wealthy few while harming the environment. The Trump administration is supe...
www.propublica.org
December 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
NEW: A @propublica.org and @highcountrynews.org investigation found that government programs supporting grazing on public lands prop up a wealthy few while harming the environment. The Trump administration is supercharging the system.
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Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
This book would be a great holiday gift for anyone interested in water, rivers, conservation! #FountainCreek
FOUNTAIN CREEK by Jim O'Donnell www.torreyhouse.org/fountain-creek || #COwx #Colorado #Rivers #NatureWriting #COWater #FountainBook
Torrey House Press | FOUNTAIN CREEK by Jim O'Donnell
From its headwaters high up Colorado’s legendary Pike’s Peak to suburban concrete-lined canals, Fountain Creek has endured nearly everything humans could do to a single watershed. It has been dammed, ...
www.torreyhouse.org
December 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This book would be a great holiday gift for anyone interested in water, rivers, conservation! #FountainCreek
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The Trump administration's corruption has extended to selling out Ukraine—and America's interests—to Russia so that the Trump family and their friends can make a few bucks.
Must-read reporting from @wsj.com this weekend. www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Must-read reporting from @wsj.com this weekend. www.wsj.com/world/russia...
December 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The Trump administration's corruption has extended to selling out Ukraine—and America's interests—to Russia so that the Trump family and their friends can make a few bucks.
Must-read reporting from @wsj.com this weekend. www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Must-read reporting from @wsj.com this weekend. www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Happy Monday!😂
The desk isn’t even tiny
December 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Happy Monday!😂
Let's just temporarily name all the ephemeral bodies of water the Beloved Trump stream/arroyo/gully, etc. Protection secured! 😏
November 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Let's just temporarily name all the ephemeral bodies of water the Beloved Trump stream/arroyo/gully, etc. Protection secured! 😏
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November 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Well worth a donation, IMHO, Colorado people.
Chickadees are so pretty! This one braved the 12º for a drink at the frosty, but heated bird water. We're up to 15º now. We desperately need snow.
November 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Chickadees are so pretty! This one braved the 12º for a drink at the frosty, but heated bird water. We're up to 15º now. We desperately need snow.
Wow, you guys. Amazing nature.😮
#FrogFriday > BlackFriday - Here's a male Uakari Poison Frog (Ranitomeya uakarii) hauling two of its tadpoles to a location with permanent water, where they can continue development. Rainforest in the Rio Tahuayo drainage north of Iquitos, Peru. #herps #frogs #NaturePhotography 🌿
November 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Wow, you guys. Amazing nature.😮
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The journalist who got this scoop and reported it is a former U.S. Army infantry soldier and Iraq War vet
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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This robin swallowed a tennis ball.
November 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
This robin swallowed a tennis ball.
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Best Thanksgiving day tradition we’ve ever started: a cold morning walk looking for Hooded Mergansers. Found some! Dozens! Plus an excellent bonus Merlin and two Yellow-rumped Warblers. Happy Complicated Day of Thanks, everyone! 🪶💚
November 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Best Thanksgiving day tradition we’ve ever started: a cold morning walk looking for Hooded Mergansers. Found some! Dozens! Plus an excellent bonus Merlin and two Yellow-rumped Warblers. Happy Complicated Day of Thanks, everyone! 🪶💚
I remember today's Mutt's comic back in the early 2000s. It meant a lot to me and it stays with me now. Reminds me of my best walking companion back then who meant the world to me. Happy Thanksgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I remember today's Mutt's comic back in the early 2000s. It meant a lot to me and it stays with me now. Reminds me of my best walking companion back then who meant the world to me. Happy Thanksgiving!
Gosh, this seems like something for CN to be thankful for. Park Hill caught my eye in Chief Hoskin's post because my dad was born there long ago. I have so much to learn.
At long last, the historic Park Hill Mission (Worcester) cemetery is in the hands of #CherokeeNation, acquired from our friends at the Oklahoma Historical Society. #Thankful #Restoration #IndianCountry
November 27, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Gosh, this seems like something for CN to be thankful for. Park Hill caught my eye in Chief Hoskin's post because my dad was born there long ago. I have so much to learn.
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There is nothing to review, @colorado.gov.
Commentary: When the Trump administration requested that Colorado transfer custody of Tina Peters from the state to the federal government, there was only one plausible response: Not in a million years. But Gov. Jared Polis seems to have a different idea.
Polis' silence on Trump's Tina Peters request has already done damage | Colorado Newsline
There was only one response to the Trump administration's request that Colorado relinquish custody of Tina Peters: Not in a million years.
coloradonewsline.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
There is nothing to review, @colorado.gov.
Is this the weekend? It seems like the weekend. 🤪
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Is this the weekend? It seems like the weekend. 🤪
Colorado, have you contacted your representative and senators?
Commentary: How the Interior Department’s rollback turns abandoned oil wells into your problem
How the Interior Department’s rollback turns abandoned oil wells into your problem | Colorado Newsline
The Department of the Interior has announced plans to roll back critical bonding requirements for companies drilling on public lands.
coloradonewsline.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Colorado, have you contacted your representative and senators?
Interesting!
Colorado drivers have spent more than $1 million on “born to be wild” license plates that support ranchers and wolves
Colorado drivers have spent more than $1 million on “born to be wild” license plates that support ranchers and wolves
With over 5 million registered rigs on the road, that might sound like a “meh” statistic. But the plate has raised critical funds for Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s non-lethal mitigation program.
coloradosun.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Interesting!
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Another destructive solar project approved in n CA -- “There's nothing environmentally friendly about cutting down 4,000 oak trees, the most ecologically valuable native tree in all of North America. Over 2,000 other species depend on them." 🌎 www.capradio.org/articles/202...
SMUD’s controversial Coyote Creek solar project moves forward
The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the project at a packed Tuesday meeting, where over 150 people showed up to voice concerns or support.
www.capradio.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Another destructive solar project approved in n CA -- “There's nothing environmentally friendly about cutting down 4,000 oak trees, the most ecologically valuable native tree in all of North America. Over 2,000 other species depend on them." 🌎 www.capradio.org/articles/202...
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Fun clouds today as Sedona dries out from a week of rain. Tap for wider view. Have a good afternoon.
November 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Fun clouds today as Sedona dries out from a week of rain. Tap for wider view. Have a good afternoon.
Flicker and junco morning. (Think you'll have to click). Have a good day. Off to hang out with grandsons for a bit.
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Flicker and junco morning. (Think you'll have to click). Have a good day. Off to hang out with grandsons for a bit.
This excellent Reveal episode had me in tears. And I couldn't stop thinking that one of MTG's infamous legacies will be her pathetic disdain for public television and radio. www.podchaser.com/podcasts/rev...
In Rural America Public Radio Saves Lives by Reveal
In Rural America Public Radio Saves Lives from Reveal on Podchaser, aired Saturday, 22nd November 2025. When a typhoon hit Alaska, public radio station KYUK was on the air, broadcasting critical infor...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This excellent Reveal episode had me in tears. And I couldn't stop thinking that one of MTG's infamous legacies will be her pathetic disdain for public television and radio. www.podchaser.com/podcasts/rev...