Coyote Gulch
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Water issues junkie. Please check out my blog on WordPress: https://coyotegulch.blog, thanks — John Orr
Barren fields find beneficial use: Innovative project will revegetate and restore the land, while producing revenue from carbon credits -- Evan Arvizu (AlamosaCitizen.com) #SanLuisValley coyotegulch.blog/2025/12/02/b...
December 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Barren fields find beneficial use: Innovative project will revegetate and restore the land, while producing revenue from carbon credits -- Evan Arvizu (AlamosaCitizen.com) #SanLuisValley coyotegulch.blog/2025/12/02/b...
A drying #GreatSaltLake is spewing toxic dust. It could cost #Utah billions -- Leia Larsen (Grist.org) coyotegulch.blog/2025/12/02/a...
December 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
A drying #GreatSaltLake is spewing toxic dust. It could cost #Utah billions -- Leia Larsen (Grist.org) coyotegulch.blog/2025/12/02/a...
A drying Great Salt Lake is spewing toxic dust. It could cost Utah billions. | grist.org/health/dust-...
A drying Great Salt Lake is spewing toxic dust. It could cost Utah billions.
A new report from two environmental groups says elected officials and scientists aren't taking the problem seriously enough.
grist.org
December 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
A drying Great Salt Lake is spewing toxic dust. It could cost Utah billions. | grist.org/health/dust-...
#Snowpack news December 2, 2025 coyotegulch.blog/2025/12/02/s...
#Snowpack news December 2, 2025
Westwide SNOTEL basin-filled map November 30, 2025. Colorado snowpack basin-filled map November 30, 2025.
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December 2, 2025 at 10:15 AM
#Snowpack news December 2, 2025 coyotegulch.blog/2025/12/02/s...
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December 2, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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November 2025 precipitation ranking (since 1895). Record and near record dryness from southern Louisiana to Florida to South Carolina. Meanwhile, record rain in parts of southern California and Nevada - including the wettest November on record for Death Valley.
December 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM
November 2025 precipitation ranking (since 1895). Record and near record dryness from southern Louisiana to Florida to South Carolina. Meanwhile, record rain in parts of southern California and Nevada - including the wettest November on record for Death Valley.
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Fort Collins officially received 0.1" of snow yesterday, the first measurable snowfall of the season. Having the first snow be 0.1" seems on-brand for this warm and dry fall.
That's the 9th-latest first snow in over 125 years of records (record latest was December 13 in 1965.) #cowx
That's the 9th-latest first snow in over 125 years of records (record latest was December 13 in 1965.) #cowx
December 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Fort Collins officially received 0.1" of snow yesterday, the first measurable snowfall of the season. Having the first snow be 0.1" seems on-brand for this warm and dry fall.
That's the 9th-latest first snow in over 125 years of records (record latest was December 13 in 1965.) #cowx
That's the 9th-latest first snow in over 125 years of records (record latest was December 13 in 1965.) #cowx
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We found that the BLM skipped environmental review on 75% of its grazing land. Our new @propublica.org story explains the ”loophole” that allows BLM to bypass enviro reviews. www.propublica.org/article/graz...
December 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
We found that the BLM skipped environmental review on 75% of its grazing land. Our new @propublica.org story explains the ”loophole” that allows BLM to bypass enviro reviews. www.propublica.org/article/graz...
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An all-hands-on-deck effort, tens of millions in funding and a breakthrough herbicide are helping but not halting a destructive force slowly enveloping the best sagebrush left on Earth.
"I think you have to kind of accept that we're going to have cheatgrass forever," one weed specialist said.
"I think you have to kind of accept that we're going to have cheatgrass forever," one weed specialist said.
Inside Wyoming’s fight against cheatgrass, the ‘most existential, sweeping threat’ to western ecosystems - WyoFile
An all-hands-on-deck effort, tens of millions in funding and a breakthrough herbicide are slowing but not halting a destructive force steadily enveloping the best sagebrush left on Earth.
wyofile.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
An all-hands-on-deck effort, tens of millions in funding and a breakthrough herbicide are helping but not halting a destructive force slowly enveloping the best sagebrush left on Earth.
"I think you have to kind of accept that we're going to have cheatgrass forever," one weed specialist said.
"I think you have to kind of accept that we're going to have cheatgrass forever," one weed specialist said.
An Army captain who refused orders in 1864 today is remembered with reverence for his defiance coloradonewsline.com/2025/11/26/a...
An Army captain who refused orders in 1864 today is remembered with reverence for his defiance | Colorado Newsline
The Sand Creek Massacre comes to mind in reading about U.S. Rep. Jason Crow's call for members of the U.S. military to refuse illegal orders.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
An Army captain who refused orders in 1864 today is remembered with reverence for his defiance coloradonewsline.com/2025/11/26/a...
On President Trump's arroyo-phobic Clean Water Act rule: Plus: Congress kills another RMP, sows chaos; President Trump endangers Endangered Species Act -- Jonathan P. Thompson (LandDesk.org) coyotegulch.blog/2025/12/01/o...
December 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
On President Trump's arroyo-phobic Clean Water Act rule: Plus: Congress kills another RMP, sows chaos; President Trump endangers Endangered Species Act -- Jonathan P. Thompson (LandDesk.org) coyotegulch.blog/2025/12/01/o...
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The wealthy profit from public lands, and taxpayers pick up the tab
Roughly two-thirds of grazing on Bureau of Land Management land is controlled by just 10% of permit holders.
Roughly two-thirds of grazing on Bureau of Land Management land is controlled by just 10% of permit holders.
The wealthy profit from public lands, and taxpayers pick up the tab
Roughly two-thirds of grazing on Bureau of Land Management land is controlled by just 10% of permit holders.
www.hcn.org
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The wealthy profit from public lands, and taxpayers pick up the tab
Roughly two-thirds of grazing on Bureau of Land Management land is controlled by just 10% of permit holders.
Roughly two-thirds of grazing on Bureau of Land Management land is controlled by just 10% of permit holders.
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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.
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A boat dropped us off along a temporary shoreline to meditate on yesterday, eternal and ephemeral, in the canyon country archive. Nine days to lose count of with no words to find. Just you, me, the desert, and more water and wonder than we can absorb. open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
Landscape Scale Dreaming P. 2
Just you, me, the desert, and more water and wonder than we can absorb.
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A boat dropped us off along a temporary shoreline to meditate on yesterday, eternal and ephemeral, in the canyon country archive. Nine days to lose count of with no words to find. Just you, me, the desert, and more water and wonder than we can absorb. open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
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Ocean temperatures across much of the northern Pacific remained well above average through October. Really the only sizable cooler patch shows up near the traditional region for the ongoing La Niña.
Sea surface temperature data from NOAA OISSTv2.1 (downloads.psl.noaa.gov/Datasets/noa...).
Sea surface temperature data from NOAA OISSTv2.1 (downloads.psl.noaa.gov/Datasets/noa...).
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Ocean temperatures across much of the northern Pacific remained well above average through October. Really the only sizable cooler patch shows up near the traditional region for the ongoing La Niña.
Sea surface temperature data from NOAA OISSTv2.1 (downloads.psl.noaa.gov/Datasets/noa...).
Sea surface temperature data from NOAA OISSTv2.1 (downloads.psl.noaa.gov/Datasets/noa...).
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Beavers were brought to the desert to save a dying river. Six years later, here are the results. - www.upworthy.com/beavers-refr... || #Beavers #BeaverBelievers #Rivers
Beavers were brought to the desert to save a dying river. Six years later, here are the results.
Their engineering feats are pretty dam incredible.
www.upworthy.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Beavers were brought to the desert to save a dying river. Six years later, here are the results. - www.upworthy.com/beavers-refr... || #Beavers #BeaverBelievers #Rivers
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Data Centers…in the Sky? That story and more in the current newscast of “This Week in #Water” from H2O Radio> h2oradio.org/this-week-in...
December 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Data Centers…in the Sky? That story and more in the current newscast of “This Week in #Water” from H2O Radio> h2oradio.org/this-week-in...
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Patterns on my walk along the Rio Grande this morning 11/30/2025 #riograndebosque #Corrales #raccoonprints #canadawildrye #alkalaisacaton
December 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Patterns on my walk along the Rio Grande this morning 11/30/2025 #riograndebosque #Corrales #raccoonprints #canadawildrye #alkalaisacaton
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There were protests on the Mexican side of the U.S. border, not over migration but over #water> h2oradio.org/this-week-in...
December 1, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There were protests on the Mexican side of the U.S. border, not over migration but over #water> h2oradio.org/this-week-in...
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COP30 copped out on transitioning away from fossil fuels, so frustrated countries are creating a new conference to accelerate action> h2oradio.org/this-week-in...
December 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
COP30 copped out on transitioning away from fossil fuels, so frustrated countries are creating a new conference to accelerate action> h2oradio.org/this-week-in...
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If you had a cherry pie at Thanksgiving, thank a kestrel> h2oradio.org/this-week-in...
December 1, 2025 at 1:43 AM
If you had a cherry pie at Thanksgiving, thank a kestrel> h2oradio.org/this-week-in...
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Researchers are working on flying data centers—blimps that would operate in the stratosphere to be more #sustainable> h2oradio.org/this-week-in...
December 1, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Researchers are working on flying data centers—blimps that would operate in the stratosphere to be more #sustainable> h2oradio.org/this-week-in...
On Trump's arroyo-phobic Clean Water Act rule
www.landdesk.org/p/on-trumps-...
www.landdesk.org/p/on-trumps-...
On Trump's arroyo-phobic Clean Water Act rule
Plus: Congress kills another RMP, sows chaos; Trump endangers Endangered Species Act
www.landdesk.org
November 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
On Trump's arroyo-phobic Clean Water Act rule
www.landdesk.org/p/on-trumps-...
www.landdesk.org/p/on-trumps-...