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Walker. Writer. Reader. Storyteller. Photographer. Author NOTES FOR THE AURORA SOCIETY and THE FOUNTAIN from @torreyhouse, speculative fiction, archaeology, history. Слава Україні! www.aroundtheworldineightyyears.com
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Archaeologists are plumbing the human experience to find out how various societies have responded to changes in climate, shifts in food resources, and natural hazards—among other challenges to human survival. How Vulnerable Are We to Collapse? www.sapiens.org/archaeology/... || #archaeology

Climate change and forest restoration in the U.S. Southwest | Ensia ensia.com/features/for... || #NewMexico #Colorado #Arizona #NMfire #COfire #AZFire #NMwx

One of my short works of fiction. #naturewriting #fiction. The Perfect Wheel — The Hopper | Environmental Lit. Poetry. Art. www.hoppermag.org/the-perfect-...

An essay I wrote from #Finland a few years ago. The black islands rising from the sea www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

Panama’s Indigenous Groups Wage High-Tech Fight for Their Lands - Yale E360 e360.yale.edu/features/pan...

How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is quite incredible. A million people. #archaeology "En el Amazonas vivió una civilización de un millón de habitantes" www.rtve.es/noticias/202...

How climate change is making chocolate more expensive - www.biv.com/news/retail-...

Congrats, America. We're now on Putin's side.

I will be speaking/presenting/signing at the Mountain Words Literary Festival in Crested Butte, #Colorado on May 25th and at the Mesa Verde Literary Festival July 12th in Mancos, Colorado. Come one, come all! #FountainBook #COwater #naturewriting #COwx www.torreyhouse.org/fountain-creek

The truth is always simple.

Parallel roads, solstice and sacred geography at the Gasco Site: a Chacoan ritual landscape | www.cambridge.org/core/journal... || #NewMexico #Archaeology

There's a River in Our Creek: How Colorado Springs' Growth is Eroding the Fountain Creek Watershed - Colorado Springs Independent csindy.com/theres-a-riv... || #Colorado #rivers #naturewriting #fountainbook #COwater #ColoradoSprings #Pueblo #COwx

I want to know what the hell went on in 2024.

For 11 years I’ve been tracking a patch of bulb flowers in #Taos #NewMexico for when they first break surface. #nmwx #climatechange My observations: 2015: March 2 2016: Feb 27 2017: Feb 26 2018: Feb 21 2019: Feb 13 2020: Feb 14 2021: Feb 10 2022: Feb 20 2023: Feb 24 2024: Feb 1 2025: Feb 14

#NewMexico

It’s quite clear by now that the answer to “why is the Trump administration doing x terrible thing?” is that they are *trying* to dismantle America and destabilize the entire world.

Pple I know at the Forest Service are getting laid off. In our town that will have a large negative economic impact - not to mention shutting down private businesses that rely on #publiclands. My daughter will find out next week if she is impacted by Musk's funding cuts.

Excellent idea.

I LOVE how this reporter described my new book: "Though it’s written as a personal natural history, it reads like a detective novel." There's a River in Our Creek: How Colorado Springs' Growth is Eroding the Fountain Creek Watershed csindy.com/theres-a-riv... || #fountainbook #Colorado

Great book with important information.

Get it before it's Deleted

How will the Federal funding freeze impact #Colorado 's SLV? Bigly. ❄️ mailchi.mp/c35a9db9a3af...

"I deactivated Instagram and downloaded Merlin. Instead of selfies and scrolling, I’m listening...." Sweet little essay from fellow Torrey House Press author @morgansjogren.bsky.social wildwords.substack.com/p/scrolling-... || #naturewriting

Check out this cool new #PublicLands mapping tool from the the BLM. #hiking www.blm.gov/press-releas...

There's a River in Our Creek: How Colorado Springs' Growth is Eroding the Fountain Creek Watershed - Colorado Springs Independent csindy.com/theres-a-riv... || #Colorado #FountainBook #ColoradoSprings #COwx #COwater

Trump wants to kill congestion pricing. But it’s working www.cnn.com/2025/02/12/b...

Why Store 41,000 Bison Bones From the Jones-Miller Site? www.sapiens.org/archaeology/... || #archaeology

Just a small rise in global temperatures could be deadly www.sciencenews.org/article/glob...

"This work is too important to die": scientists and experts who have been working on the nearly completed National Nature Assessment, a first-of-its-kind overview, are working to find a way to release it even though Trump killed it. #biodiversity www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...