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Defend what you love. Read, contemplate, the read some more.
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Happy Caturday 😻. Miyako loves her Totoro bed.

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Three Sisters, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park. Known by the Navajo as Tse'Bii'Ndzisgaii, Monument Valley is one of the most photographed places on earth. The valley is host to towering sandstone rock formations that have been sculpted over time and soar 400 to 1,000 feet above the valley floor.

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The All American Man pictograph. Canyonlands. Controversy occurred over when the colors were added, but carbon dating on the pigment shows it is ~700 years old. Both the colors and the style are consistent with the other shield figures of the Ancestral Puebloans fka Anasazi. Help preserve our parks.

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Please join me in asking President Trump, Secretary Burgum, and Members of Congress to preserve National Monuments and ensure the tool is available for future presidents to continue preserving the stories and places that make America great. monumentsforall.org/action/ #ParkChat #KeepItPublic

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Snow on lichens on pines. Lichens are neither plant nor animal, but a composite organism - a symbiotic partnership between a fungus and an alga or cyanobacterium.

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Brown pelican, Oceanside pier 🪶

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Happy Caturday 😼

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Don’t let them destroy our National Parks and Monuments.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Mourning doves in the snow

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California poppies and Love-in-a-Mist make a nice pairing

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Zion National Park

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Alcatraz Island has been a lighthouse, military fortification, notorious federal prison, and the site of a long occupation during Native American protests. Now it is a tourist attraction and part of Golden Gate Nat’l Recreation Area. It supports bird colonies of western gulls, cormorants, and egrets

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Hollyhocks (Alcea rosea) starting to bloom in SoCal 🌱

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Black-backed woodpecker (Picoides arcticus). The species is a burnt-forest specialist, feeding on outbreaks of wood-boring beetles on recently burnt trees.

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Happy Caturday 😽

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

#Reflections Merced River, Yosemite

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Frosty Sunrise

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Lower Yellowstone Falls at twilight. Notice the mist rising and forming its own little clouds.

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Old Faithful. Eruptions can shoot 3,700 to 8,400 US gallons (14,000 to 32,000 L) of boiling water to a height of 106 to 185 feet (32 to 56 m) lasting from 1½ to 5 minutes the average of 90 minutes apart

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Catching a ride

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Butterfly and Damselfly 🌿

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Sticky purple geranium (Geranium viscosissimum) Native to the Northwestern US and western Canada in ponderosa pine forest, northern juniper woodland, meadows, and wetland-riparian zones; from 3,300–8,200 feet (1,000–2,500 m) in elevation. 🌿

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A dad, his child, and a hike through a forest filled with adventures and learning about nature in a beautifully illustrated picture book for children. 📚💙 #booksky

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Never give up.

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Water and time

submitted 22 days ago • 6 comments

Happy year of the snake 🧧

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Essays from climate activists with lessons applicable to any social movement, and how all these issues are interconnected. Don’t surrender to the disasters and corrupt politicians. We don’t know how this ends.

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Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, NV. There are at least two climbers on the wall 🧗🏻‍♀️

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