Yay for accomplishments. Nice balance of outdoor-indoor and creative activities.

🔥Let's check in and see how much December temperatures have changed (trend) over the last 75 years. 🔥

Turkey enchiladas.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
- Allison Krause & Union Station
- Three Dog Night (~1972 & ~2015)
- Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (1970's & last summer)
- Crosby, Stills and Nash
- Flagstaff Community Band, Orchestra Northern Arizona and Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra

Let me guess what incident occurred in the Whittington family?

Wisdom, standing among grass, is a white bird with black eyes and wings, and pale bill and legs.

The queen returns! 👑 At an approximate age of 75, Wisdom the #albatross returned this week to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge for nesting season. She is the world's oldest-known bird.

Read about Wisdom at: buff.ly/MFkj4H9

📸 USFWS/ Jon Plissner.

FLAGSTAFF AZ AIRPORT Nov 18
Climate Report:
High: 41
Low: 33
Precip: 1.32"
Snow: Trace Snow Depth: 0"
at Wed, 19 Nov 2025 07:58:19 +0000 via IEMbot
Additional Details Here.

Going to work?

Scott Stephens and I have written an editorial on what we think is necessary to select for leadership in land management agencies so they are able to manage our public lands during rapid change. @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Star chart showing the Summer Triangle with 3 labeled stars.

The #SummerTriangle - a splendid trio of stars in the Northern Hemisphere’s summer sky - is still visible as the weeks of autumn slide by. Find out how to see it at: buff.ly/JABwn6b

What the heck! No, we don't need Steve Pearce at BLM.

Watching Redford today.

Rooting for Toronto. Blue Jays logo with that little maple leaf.

Nffe eagle and cogs logo on a tealish background. With holdover funding running low, we're going to start seeing changed statuses. Definitions worth knowing: • Exempt- working and paid as normal • Excepted- working, Not paid* leave canceled •Intermittent excepted- working part time, not paid* • Non-excepted aka Furloughed- not working, not paid*, leave canceled *not paid real time. Once appropriations are passed, you'll recieve back pay @ http://www.NFFE.org & @ https://www.nffe-fsc.org

Help with the 'e' words.

Bigger crowds than ever in Flagstaff! #nokings #nokingsaz #nokingsindivisiblenaz

Yard flag on blue background witb red and white stars. - "We support our Federal Workers"

My new yard flag was just delivered.

Take care, D.

State of USFS operations.

Are you OK?

Heinrich calls on Forest Service to explain how agency is buying out 5,000 employees • Source New Mexico “These significant discrepancies require clarification and accounting to Congress,” Heinrich and other senators wrote in a Sept. 9 letter.

In New Mexico, 372 Forest Service employees opted into the deferred resignation program, according to a spreadsheet Heinrich's office provided. A total of 500 USDA employees here opted in.

buff.ly/zzsOPhM

Tom, thanks for this. I shared widely thru FS & retiree networks.

The legacy lost when Forest Service offices shut down After 117 years of operation, the U.S. Forest Service’s Southwest Regional Office in Albuquerque is closing by order of the secretary of agriculture. Since 1908, this office has directed the

Our op-ed in the Santa Fe New Mexican today highlights the potential losses from closure of the nine US Forest Service Regional Offices, namely local leadership knowledge and capacity, experienced people, and priceless documentary records: www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_v...

RFK Jr. says polio ended because of the DDT ban. Wrong.
📉 Cases crashed after the 1955 Salk vaccine.
💊 Sabin oral vaccine in 1961 finished the job.
🚫 DDT ban came in 1972—long after polio was gone.

Vaccines beat polio.
#BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky
#SciSky 🧪 #NurseSky #IDSky #EMSky #PedsSky #ObSky

🌡️Extreme heat in the Death Valley:
After yesterday's 120F+, tonight the minimum temperature in the Badwater Basin didn't drop below 101F, which is extremely rare anywhere in the world this time of the year,having happened just once.

Data is from NOAA/NCEP:

Thanks for sharing! My publisher is running an e-book promotion right now, so you can get it for $2.99 (or apparently a bit less!) anywhere you normally buy books. 💙📚👩‍🔬Happy reading!

A 1940 Western Apache (Ndee) farm site with two wickiups in a ponderosa pine forest. CREDIT: Lee Russell/Library of Congress

Tree-ring fire records from 649 pine trees in central and eastern Arizona show that fires occurred more often in the territory of the Western Apache, or Ndee, than in other regions between 1600–1870, suggesting a culturally controlled fire regime. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

PSA from Hopi to tourist

Local newspapers are the last bastion of defense to find our what your city councils have been up to. Please support them, whether with a print subscription or at least a digital one. You don't know what you'll be missing until it's gone.

Thread on Dragon Bravo, which continues its serial reincarnations. Began as lightning fire in confine and contain mode (escaped). Morphed into urban fire (incinerated park's developed area). Swelled into proto-megafire (blew over major containment line). Now a free-burning megafire.

Yay Logistics!