“‘Over the next three years or so, unless Congress steps in, the Park Service will be pretty seriously damaged, you might almost say dismantled,’ says former NPS director Jonathan Jarvis, who served as the agency’s head from 2009 to 2017…

Cool new article on how the 2024 total solar eclipse across eastern North America affected bird behavior 🪶

And a good summary in the news release here: news.iu.edu/luddy/live/n...

‘“A hundred and fifteen years that they haven’t been here, and they still have that GPS unit inside of them,” said the visibly giddy Klamath Tribal Chair William Ray, Jr. “It’s truly an awesome feat if you think about the gauntlet they had to go through.”’

"The life story of moss cannot be recounted separately from its surroundings... To engage with mosses... is to attend to their relationship with time as much as space. Across centuries, their proliferation has reshaped landscapes, healing what was broken, + transforming what seems unchangeable."

"Bird migrations rank as one of nature’s greatest spectacles. Thanks to GPS tracking, scientists are uncovering extraordinary insights into ancient and mysterious journeys – and new threats that are reshaping them..." #ClimateCrisis #Migration @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

NoiseCat is the son of an Indigenous Canadian father and white mother. After a cultural genocide, he says, living your life becomes an existential question. His new memoir is We Survived the Night. n.pr/47rPOsV

Tommy Orange, the Cheyenne and Arapaho author of There There and Wandering Stars, has been named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow, one of the highest honors in the arts.

redpopnews.com/wandering-st...

#macarhurfellowship #MacArthurFoundation #redpopnews #tommyorange

Colorado River Indian Tribes may grant personhood rights to 'living' river. "...we see it from a different perspective," she said. "Who uses the water and how much it's about protecting this river."

www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Landmark exhibition finally honors George Morrison (Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa), ‘it also introduces the museum-going public to an artist who has long been sequestered because of his ethnicity. The Ojibwe artist was

"The City and the City and the City"
by Ayham Dalal

A mapping workshop with refugees from Homs, Syria, illuminates the complexity of rebuilding after war.

Read more: placesjournal.org/article/mapping-homs-syria-rebuilding-after-war/

I’ve been going through this weird wave of nostalgia about the short period of time I lived in Alaska; it was one of the few youthful adventures I got to take as the Great Recession put everything on hold.

That nostalgia I think comes out in this piece. This is about the park I worked in.