"Thao graduated from Como Park Senior High School in St. Paul and headed to the University of Minnesota to study computer science. But subject and student did not mesh well. He’d get headaches just reading about computers, Thao recalled."
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/05/07/for-27-years-kao-thao-has-brought-hmong-people-to-minnesota-state-parks

#Minnesota #outdoors #naturalists

In Springfield, MA until Monday for the Northeast Natural History Conference (NENHC). Anyone else?

Any locals wanna recommend a good greenspace to visit? (Edit) It looks like tomorrow, Friday is the only non-rainy day during my stay. I'm on the wait list for a field trip to Vermont in the afternoon, but I'll get out one way or another.

https://www.eaglehill.us/NENHC_2025/program/scheduleoverview.shtml

cc: @darwin

#SpringfieldMA #NENHC #NENHC2025 #Naturalists #Conference #Massachusetts #iNaturalist

Garden Museum in London, England

Tony Blair's garden gnome and a Howitzer shell-turned-flower-pot are on display in this deconsecrated 13th-century church.#gnomes #gardens #naturalists #naturalhistorymuseums #museums #section-Atlas
Garden Museum

University of Wisconsin-Madison: Leopold’s journals that informed ‘A Sand County Almanac’ more accessible than ever before . “Thanks to the careful work of passionate volunteers, University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries Digital Collections Center, University Archives and Records Management, and the Aldo Leopold Foundation, all 1,100 handwritten pages of Leopold’s Shack journals are […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2024/12/17/university-of-wisconsin-madison-leopolds-journals-that-informed-a-sand-county-almanac-more-accessible-than-ever-before/

wrote a guide for visiting Cuc Phuong national park in northern #vietnam ,where I made many #iNaturalist observations. Highly recommend the park to #naturalists
It is the oldest national park in Vietnam

https://potoo.is/guide-to-visiting-cuc-phuong-national-park-a-treasure-of-nature-in-vietnam

#NationalParks #biodiveristy #wildlife #forests #tootsea #cucphuong #hanoi #travel

A few more birds from the Edmonds waterfront last Wednesday. These are the little birds that flit quickly through the shrubbery. #birds #birding #birdphotography #nature #naturephotography #photography #PNW #Edmonds #Naturalists

Out at the Edmonds waterfront yesterday. A small flock Surf Scoters were hanging around the pier. A few Red-necked Grebes, too. #birds #birding #birdphotography #nature #naturephotography #photography #PNW #Edmonds #Naturalists

I try and make Mondays my birding day. I didn't get out today, rain. Here's a few birds from the Edmonds waterfront last Monday. #birds #birding #birdphotography #nature #naturephotography #photography #PNW #Edmonds #Naturalists

Sneaky bunny

Eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) at the Edmonds waterfront. #Naturalists 🌿 #mammals 🐰 #nature #naturephotography #photography 📷 #rabbit #PNW #wildlife

October
#Naturalists #Ecosystems #Seasons
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/opinion/seasons-nature-fall.html?ogrp=dpl&unlocked_article_code=1.SU4.0lJE.eAoVNsHCd0Uy&smid=url-share

#Naturalists #UntidyGardens
https://open.substack.com/pub/whilewalkingtoday/p/seeeds?r=mlfh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

waterways, land, and the air-atmosphere are rubbish dumps for big business; the whole biosphere, and internally our bodily ecology is polluted by profit-minded psychopaths.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/29/burning-rubbish-to-create-energy-could-end-landfills-but-some-worry-where-australias-new-path-is-leading

#landfill #toxicwaste #incinerators
#fossilfuel #plastics #microplastics #nan oplastics

Synthetic Stuff
https://ecology.iww.org/PDF/Bookchin/OurSyntheticEnvironment.pdf

#ecology #environment #naturalists #MurrayBookchin

I'll be at #Esquimalt #GorgeWaterway /Kinsmen park in a few hours to join the invasive green crab monitoring team. It's another trapping/netting day & I'll be documenting some of the project's work.

[ Since 2022, we have participated in the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ European Green Crab Monitoring Project. European green crabs are a destructive invasive species that removes eelgrass very efficiently, destroying habitat for everything else in the Gorge. Unfortunately, we caught adult European green crabs in the Gorge for the first time in August 2024 through our monitoring program.

We are working with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and Peninsula Streams Society to remove as many as possible before the problem worsens. To prevent the spread of European Green Crabs, make sure to clean, drain, and dry off any watercraft according to BC Invasives. ]

https://www.gorge.ca/projects/european-green-crab-monitoring

#YYJ #Esquimalt #GorgeWaterwayPark #LekwungenTerritory #Songhees #Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #Environmental #InvasiveSpecies #EuropeanGreenCrab #marine #DFO #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #conservationists #ecological #ecosystems #Naturalists #Cascadia #VanIsle #PNW

Margaret Renkl writes about "Trash" trees deserving an observant second look
#Ecosystems #Conservation #Naturalists #MargaretRenkl
https://archive.ph/7GxOH

Part of the ongoing #rewilding & #nature #restoration work I do with fellow caring local #environmentalists is planting #EelGrass in areas where we are trying to bump up #ocean #oxygen levels & bring back more #biodiversity in the seas. Eel grass purposeful planting into ocean beds(with divers) & beaches at low tide is an essential part of restoring biodiversity back to human damaged areas in ocean.

#ClimateAction #VancouverIsland #Nature #Stewardship #Wsanec #Saanich #GoodNews #PacificNorthwest #PNW #VanIsle #Ecological #Ecosystems #Marine #OceanScience #naturalists #SalishSea #Aquatic #SeaPlants #botanical #Cascadia #SeaGrass

I just uploaded my 2,000th "Species" (Taxon) on iNaturalist: a Red-shouldered Bug, Jadera haematoloma, that landed on a table at the Kingsland Wildflower Festival last weekend.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/233291270

It's my 1,836th "Wild" Species, i.e.: not captive nor cultivated, e.g.: plants in my garden.

#iNaturalist #NaturePhotography #UrbanNature #Naturalists #UrbanNaturalists #Insects #Bugs #Bugstodon

cc: @darwin

I'm now up to:
- 1,999 "Species"
- 17,727 Observations

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=xris&verifiable=any

I was in Colorado for a week earlier this month: 67 new-to-me species so far. As identifications come in I expect this to increase, and push me over 2,000 species.

#iNaturalist #NaturePhotography #NatureTravel #Naturalists
cc: @darwin

#Saanich #VictoriaBC - More #Volunteers always welcomed!

#GarryOakRestoration

Every Saturday morning from 10 am - noon, rain or shine, all are invited to come and help remove invasive species like English Ivy, Scotch Broom, and Himalayan Blackberry from our property on the slopes of #ChrismasHill. Pruners and shovels are provided; please bring your own gloves, safety glasses, and water.

Meet at:
Sacred Heart Parish
4040 Nelthorpe St.

#InvasiveSpeciesRemoval #VolunteerWorkParties #CommunityWork #HandsOnHelp #YYJ #naturalists #Wsanec #Lekwungen

#Biologists, #Naturalists, #NatureLovers, #Europeans, #Citizens --> Save the #EU #NatureRestorationLaw and sign this petition!
https://secure.avaaz.org/community_petitions/en/european_voter_europe_for_nature_vote_for_our_future_in_the_european_election/?copy&utm_source=sharetools&utm_medium=copy&utm_campaign=petition-1727801-europe_for_nature_vote_for_our_future_in_the_european_election&utm_term=copy%2Ben

#Europe #EC #EuropeanCommision #EuropeanParliament #Nature #NatureLaw #NatureResoration #Petition #CallForAction #CallToAction

Roughly 1,000 #volunteers armed with the #iNaturalist app on their smartphones are #documenting as many #nature species as possible along the #USMexico border in May. Uploading photos to the app helps #identify #plants & #animals & records the coordinates of the location.

The hope is the information could lead to more protections for the region's natural richness, which is overshadowed by news of drug trafficking & migrant smuggling.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireStory/botanists-scouring-us-mexico-border-document-forgotten-ecosystem-110371018

#Naturalists #BioBlitz