Edward E. Starkey PhD
@aboutwildlife.bsky.social
Retired Research Wildlife Biologist and Professor of Forest Science.
Interests: climate change, endangered species, herbivory, nutritional ecology, biopolitics, forest ecology
Interests: climate change, endangered species, herbivory, nutritional ecology, biopolitics, forest ecology
Someone needs to explain this to the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum.
There’s No ‘Undo’ Button for Extinct Species
www.nytimes.com
September 6, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Someone needs to explain this to the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum.
This is awful. We have to stop this guy. 2026 is our best chance.
White House announces more aggressive review of Smithsonian museums
In a letter to the Smithsonian’s leader, White House officials said they would review exhibition text, curation, exhibition planning and collections starting with eight museums.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This is awful. We have to stop this guy. 2026 is our best chance.
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Completely horrifying.👇 Anti-science monster.
RFK Jr. Cancels mRNA Vaccine Research www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Reality: Vaccine...
- saved millions of lives
- < hospitalization
- < long COVID
- > pregnancy outcomes
- < healthcare costs
- promising platform for other diseases!
- etc, etc!!!
RFK Jr. Cancels mRNA Vaccine Research www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Reality: Vaccine...
- saved millions of lives
- < hospitalization
- < long COVID
- > pregnancy outcomes
- < healthcare costs
- promising platform for other diseases!
- etc, etc!!!
R.F.K. Jr. Cancels mRNA Vaccine Research
www.nytimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Completely horrifying.👇 Anti-science monster.
RFK Jr. Cancels mRNA Vaccine Research www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Reality: Vaccine...
- saved millions of lives
- < hospitalization
- < long COVID
- > pregnancy outcomes
- < healthcare costs
- promising platform for other diseases!
- etc, etc!!!
RFK Jr. Cancels mRNA Vaccine Research www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Reality: Vaccine...
- saved millions of lives
- < hospitalization
- < long COVID
- > pregnancy outcomes
- < healthcare costs
- promising platform for other diseases!
- etc, etc!!!
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Science denialists believe they are the true “skeptics” who are embracing science’s rigor.
They claim they want evidence--but failure to accept well-supported conclusions in the light of overwhelming evidence isn’t skepticism.
It’s denial.
- @thinkingpowers.bsky.social
They claim they want evidence--but failure to accept well-supported conclusions in the light of overwhelming evidence isn’t skepticism.
It’s denial.
- @thinkingpowers.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Science denialists believe they are the true “skeptics” who are embracing science’s rigor.
They claim they want evidence--but failure to accept well-supported conclusions in the light of overwhelming evidence isn’t skepticism.
It’s denial.
- @thinkingpowers.bsky.social
They claim they want evidence--but failure to accept well-supported conclusions in the light of overwhelming evidence isn’t skepticism.
It’s denial.
- @thinkingpowers.bsky.social
Lets see how the Administration “puts lipstick on this pig”. I know the MinicokaIdaho site. And it is sagebrush desert.Cold in winter, hot in summer and windy most of the time.
Minidoka National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)
During World War II, over 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated without due process of law. Although little remains of the barbed-wire fences and ...
www.nps.gov
July 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Lets see how the Administration “puts lipstick on this pig”. I know the MinicokaIdaho site. And it is sagebrush desert.Cold in winter, hot in summer and windy most of the time.
I feel sorry for the NPS employees who are required to remove politically censored signs. That would be painful.
This Is What Censorship Looks Like in a National Park: The First Park Sign That Came Down
I’ve made my career as a park ranger, employed to care for treasured sites, it’s resources, and history in a bipartisan and engaging way. I…
medium.com
July 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I feel sorry for the NPS employees who are required to remove politically censored signs. That would be painful.
This article brightened my morning. Many years ago, Lava Beds NM (northern California) had a similar problem with a coyote that ljked sleeping bags.
Sly as a... National park rangers blame sneaky fox for theft of 32 pairs of shoes
Rather than heed the park rangers’ warning, visitors left their shoes out intentionally in hopes of seeing a fox
www.the-independent.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This article brightened my morning. Many years ago, Lava Beds NM (northern California) had a similar problem with a coyote that ljked sleeping bags.
Are Trump's crippling cuts in NPS budget, along with mass firings, step 1 of a plan to privatize our national parks?
Abolish the National Park Service
Revising how America's most beautiful public lands are protected would create more ways for Americans to interact with some of the best parts of the country.
reason.com
July 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Are Trump's crippling cuts in NPS budget, along with mass firings, step 1 of a plan to privatize our national parks?
Southern elephant seal good news.
Experts stunned as animal colony on remote island rebounds from catastrophic loss: 'Great news'
A remote colony of elephant seals in southern Chile is showing signs of recovery after being devastated by avian flu just two years ago.
www.thecooldown.com
July 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Southern elephant seal good news.
This Bill has just been referred to the House Natural Resourses Committee. If it becomes law, the Mexican Gray Wolf will almost certainly become extinct.
Bill Would Remove Federal Protections From Endangered Mexican Gray Wolves
Center for Biological Diversity: TUCSON, Ariz.— U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) introduced legislation this week to remove the Mexican gray wolf from the endangered species list, which would effectivel...
biologicaldiversity.org
July 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This Bill has just been referred to the House Natural Resourses Committee. If it becomes law, the Mexican Gray Wolf will almost certainly become extinct.
@altnps.bsky.social
I have not been able to find any information on FY 26 NPS budget that was included in the reconciliation bill that Trump will sign tomorrow. If anyone knows where I can find it, I would welcome your help.
I have not been able to find any information on FY 26 NPS budget that was included in the reconciliation bill that Trump will sign tomorrow. If anyone knows where I can find it, I would welcome your help.
July 4, 2025 at 3:47 AM
@altnps.bsky.social
I have not been able to find any information on FY 26 NPS budget that was included in the reconciliation bill that Trump will sign tomorrow. If anyone knows where I can find it, I would welcome your help.
I have not been able to find any information on FY 26 NPS budget that was included in the reconciliation bill that Trump will sign tomorrow. If anyone knows where I can find it, I would welcome your help.
Really good news. An ESA success story.
2025 Wintering Whooping Crane Count | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
www.fws.gov
July 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Really good news. An ESA success story.
This absolutely can’t be allowed to happen. We need to overwhelm our members of Congress with opposing views.
Map: All 250 million acres of public land the Trump budget bill would sell off
The Senate's reconciliation bill would mandate the sale of at least 2 million acres of public lands. See where they are.
www.fastcompany.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
This absolutely can’t be allowed to happen. We need to overwhelm our members of Congress with opposing views.
Our National Park,System is the best in the world, and most Americans have highly favorable views of the National Park Service (NPS).
So I have a great idea. Lets eviscerate the the NPS to help pay for an income tax cut.
So I have a great idea. Lets eviscerate the the NPS to help pay for an income tax cut.
Trump wants to defund national parks—but they have overwhelming bipartisan support
Trump’s budget would cut more than $1.2 billion of funding for national parks. Experts say parks are among the only third places that have both Republican and Democratic support.
www.fastcompany.com
June 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Our National Park,System is the best in the world, and most Americans have highly favorable views of the National Park Service (NPS).
So I have a great idea. Lets eviscerate the the NPS to help pay for an income tax cut.
So I have a great idea. Lets eviscerate the the NPS to help pay for an income tax cut.
A little good news for a change.
Goodbye Bullfrogs, Hello Turtles At Yosemite National Park
A cacophony of croaking bullfrogs under a dark night sky might seem like one of nature's sweetest sounds, unless you're a turtle in Yosemite National Park.
www.nationalparkstraveler.org
June 1, 2025 at 3:48 AM
A little good news for a change.
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The 5calls app is great and easy to use. Thanks for mentioning it.
Too many people turn off because the constant stream of idiocy from this admin leaves them feeling powerless.
It's time we all take our power back.
Too many people turn off because the constant stream of idiocy from this admin leaves them feeling powerless.
It's time we all take our power back.
May 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The 5calls app is great and easy to use. Thanks for mentioning it.
Too many people turn off because the constant stream of idiocy from this admin leaves them feeling powerless.
It's time we all take our power back.
Too many people turn off because the constant stream of idiocy from this admin leaves them feeling powerless.
It's time we all take our power back.
Just imagine what it must have been like to be uprooted from your home in coastal California and placed in a concentration camp in southern Idaho.There is no way to put a happy face on that story. The NPS placard is historically accurate. Interior Secretary Burglum’s comments make me feel ill.
Public Urged To Report National Park Placards That Disparage Americans Or Detracts From Scenic Grandeur
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum hopes to enlist the public in identifying interpretive materials in the National Park System that disparage Americans past or living or which contain content that detrac...
www.nationalparkstraveler.org
May 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Just imagine what it must have been like to be uprooted from your home in coastal California and placed in a concentration camp in southern Idaho.There is no way to put a happy face on that story. The NPS placard is historically accurate. Interior Secretary Burglum’s comments make me feel ill.
The genome of the northern white rhino has been mapped.That’s good news. The research team obtained DNA from cells that had been frozen and stored in the “Frozen Zoo” at the San Diego Zoo.
Genomic map of the functionally extinct northern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) | PNAS
The northern white rhinoceros (NWR; Ceratotherium simum cottoni) is functionally extinct,
with only two nonreproductive females alive. Efforts to r...
www.pnas.org
May 23, 2025 at 1:02 AM
The genome of the northern white rhino has been mapped.That’s good news. The research team obtained DNA from cells that had been frozen and stored in the “Frozen Zoo” at the San Diego Zoo.
Another attempt by the current Administration to control the message.
Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
www.npr.org
May 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Another attempt by the current Administration to control the message.
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Last week, President Trump removed key protections from a marine protected area that's home to coral reefs, whales, sea turtles, and countless fish. My op-ed for @us.theconversation.com explains why that's bad and we should not do that.
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Trump is stripping protections from marine protected areas – why that’s a problem for fishing’s future, and for whales, corals and other ocean life
America’s marine protected areas help fish populations thrive. Trump’s plan to open them to industrial fishing may ultimately harm the fishing industry itself.
theconversation.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Last week, President Trump removed key protections from a marine protected area that's home to coral reefs, whales, sea turtles, and countless fish. My op-ed for @us.theconversation.com explains why that's bad and we should not do that.
theconversation.com/trump-is-str... 🧪🦑🌎🐟
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This is really bad news. It is one more step in Trump’s war on science.
Trump swings budget ax at USGS biology research
Plan to eliminate $307 million ecosystem program could face obstacles in Congress
www.science.org
April 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This is really bad news. It is one more step in Trump’s war on science.
” He added that “Leftist dopes” run the Ivy League college, and “because of that, Harvard can no longer be considered even a decent place of learning, and should not be considered on any list of the World’s Great Universities or Colleges “Harvard is a JOKE, teaches Hate and Stupidity”.
April 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
” He added that “Leftist dopes” run the Ivy League college, and “because of that, Harvard can no longer be considered even a decent place of learning, and should not be considered on any list of the World’s Great Universities or Colleges “Harvard is a JOKE, teaches Hate and Stupidity”.