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oldrangerpete.bsky.social
Author, speaker, retired US Forest Service ranger and biologist. Since 2011, serving as a naturalist on major cruise lines on their Southeast Alaska cruises. Hunter of moose; catcher of fish.
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That would be awful. Don’t share this.

submitted 11 days ago • 906 comments

45 years ago today we were saving a bird from extinction. It was a day that changed my life and my career in the US Forest Service. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lglp...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

I don't know who will be making the fortune, Donald, but I do know it won't be the little people. 3/3

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

The old man looked at Pat and said, "This isn't for the little people." Donald Trump's Truth Social quote from Monday: “The USA lost Billions of Dollars A DAY in International Trade under Sleepy Joe Biden. I have now stemmed that tide, and will be making a fortune, very soon." 2/3

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Forty years ago I took a writing class with Pat, who spent two years in Thailand in the Peace Corp. He watched a construction project in his village. He said to the old villager, "This project will bring prosperity to the village." 1/3 Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

So, we're going to be the crypto capital of the world when one man dictates the country buy up a shit-ton of Bitcoin. What's to stop him from converting the country's wealth to shares of Tesla?

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Playing short-handed AND with an empty net.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Hey @washingtonpost.com, why are you such cowards?

submitted 113 days ago • 32 comments

Sorry, Mexico and Canada, we elected a dimwitted shitheel

submitted 130 days ago • 821 comments

"Nobody is laughing at the United States any more."

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

So which one of the networks will think it a good idea to be the first to air a series based on live action immigration raids? Maybe introduced by a catchy version of "Ice, Ice, Baby." Not that they would be trying to curry favor with any specific narcissist.

submitted 134 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 173 days ago • 612 comments

President-elect Musk is really setting down the marker of how he wants to run his administration. VP Trump better pay attention.

submitted 174 days ago • 1174 comments

On my hike today out near the Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska, I had an encounter with a raven. It didn't think much of my attempt to communicate. I suspect it was waiting to see if I keeled over so it could be the first to feast on my lifeless body.

submitted 176 days ago • 0 comments