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Forestry 🌲 | Nature 🐝 | Strength training 🔥 | Travel 🌍 "A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. This day way fight!" -Aragorn
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"Unless someone like you cares about whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." ~The Lorax Blessed to be able to work in forestry 🌲 some recent field photos. 📍Mogollon Rim, Arizona #forestry #nature #arizona #trees #wildwest #forest #publiclands #protectpubliclands

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Female gila woodpecker (Melanerpes uropygialis) on a saguaro. Peep the second woodpecker poking it's head out of the nest cavity 🪶 📍Gilbert, AZ #bird #birds #usbirding #birding #woodpecker #saguaro #arizona #Nature #flower

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I'd like to hear the ridgeway rail instead, thanks 🙄🤷🏻‍♀️ #birds #bird #usbirds #birding #arizona #marshbirds #redwingedblackbird #meme

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Western burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia hypugaea) in Casa Grande, AZ today. #bird #birds #usbirds #birding #burrowingowl #owls #arizona

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"End? No the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another adventure. One we all must take." ~J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King~ #forest #snow #arizona #nature #lotr #lordoftherings #it'ssnowing #quotes

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"Some believe that it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I've found. I found it is the small things. Every day deeds by ordinary folk that keeps the darkness at bay." -Gandalf #lordoftherings #quotes #flowers #nature #flower #spring #lotr #gandalf

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Storms that have rolled by while in the field 🌩 "Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty." #forestry #forest #nature #arizona #storms #storm #thunderstorm #explore #beauty

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Snow fix this year during field work! Absolutely stunning and the snow and fog made it so quiet. #forest #forestry #arizona #snow #fieldwork #nature #photography #explore #adventure #adventureisoutthere

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Chiricahua leopard frog (Lithobates chiricahuensis) Located in a spring at a project site in NE Arizona. The spring was overflowing with these little fellas. #arizona #amphibians #frogs #frog #nature #explore #photography #forest

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Biggest ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) I've found so far, taping at 36" DBH. Don't panic, this old guy will not be cut. See alt text for more details. #forestry #forest #pine #ponderosapine #nature #trees #arizona #northernarizona #hazardousfuels #oldgrowth #tree #oldgrowthtree

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Western bluebirds (Sialia mexicana) hanging out with me during my lunch break in the woods. #birds #birding #usbird #usbirding #westernbluebird #arizona #nature #mogollonrim #oak #forest

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Some of my favorite field finds so far. See alt text for details! #forestry #nature #explore #outdoors #arizona #wildlife #skeletons #bones #forests #wolves #wolf

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A fluffy bushtit, one of about a dozen in my backyard this evening. I like it when wildlife comes to me 😁 #birds #bushtit #sheclicksnet #birdphotography #photography#birdwatching

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Ladder-backed woodpecker (Dryobates scalaris) searching for food on an ocotillo. 📍Sonoran Desert, Arizona - Nov. 2023 #birds #bird #usbirds #birding #usbird #woodpecker #nature #arizona #sonorandesert #explore

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House sparrow (Passor domesticus) #birds #bird #usbirding #usbird #usbirds #arizona #nature #sparrow

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It’s time for class war #EatTheRich

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Juvenile bald eagle atop a Ponderosa pine snag #addBirder #usbird #bird #birds #baldeagle #usbirding #arizona

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"I am not lost in the forest. I am simply home." -Linda Blackmoore Winter 2023 in northern Arizona #winter #snow #forest #landscape #arizona #nature #winterwonderland #peace

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#smokey #smokeybear #resist #resistance #fightfacism #ifweburnyouburnwithus #forest #nature #bear

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Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

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#resistance #resist #facism #ifweburnyouburnwithus #don'tgiveup #fight

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Project site in NE Arizona in a mixed conifer stand. Trees only located on the north slope, which was 45 - 55% (RIP my ankles). Species are Douglas-fir, southerwestern white pine, ponderosa pine, quaking aspen, and pinyon pine. #forestry #Arizona #nature #trees #naturalresources #science #biology

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