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Park Ranger, former cultural property policy wonk, escaped historian.
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Former United Railway and Electric (Baltimore Md) trolley line, now a trail at North Point State Park.

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

Welcome to folks who followed me lately from the parade thread. Fair warning -- this account is mostly just sporadic pretty park pictures and nerdy CCC history.

submitted 11 hours ago • 13 comments

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

submitted 13 hours ago • 85 comments

Gloomy gusty evening at North Point State Park.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Terrestrial snail, tentatively an eastern whitelip. Seen while rangering around at North Point State Battlefield yesterday.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Frank Bruni's shout out to Maria McKee in his newsletter this week reminded me how much I adore this album: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Is...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

10 miles-- six of which were straight along my trail network. Spent the rest of June and July chainsawing.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Now that's a provenance: Jane Birkin's Birkin -- THE Birkin--goes under the hammer at Sotheby's. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/06/...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

the Inhuman League

submitted 10 days ago • 17 comments

Urban and front country park rangering today is much more challenging that it was even a mere 10 years ago. Rangers are often tasked to try to resolve difficult situations, driven by large social forces, that manifest suddenly in specific parks and places. www.abc10.com/article/news...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

This is a great thread on the inner experience of depression, and how hard but imperative it is to overcome self-isolation.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge... www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

YES. all of this. So well said, Talia. @swordsjew.bsky.social

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When I visited USS Nautilus in New London the logbook open on the control room plotting table reading "Lat 90 degrees, Long indeterminate" gave me goosebumps.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

From our colleagues in Wisconsin: "Many park structures built by the CCC ... still stand but need to be shored up. Heavily traveled... trails often need upkeep. Another example is the cost of removing trees decimated by emerald ash borers over the past several years." www.wpr.org/news/loved-u...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Maryland rolls out mandatory reservation system for two state parks.

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