YouTube video by Corb Lund Corb Lund x Terri Clark x Brett Kissel - This Is My Prairie (Official Music Video)

Sorry, this is the version I was referencing

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Absolutely! I love that song! And I love that Sherryl Sewepagaham sings a verse in Cree 🩵

Corb has done such great work being a leader & effective communicator against the proposed coal mines in SW Alberta.

A Reverence for Rivers by Kurt Fausch - Book trailer - coming April 2025 Follow ecologist and author, Dr. Kurt Fausch, into the motivation and themes of his second book, A Reverence for Rivers - Imagining an ethic for running waters.…

More than being a thoughtful and imaginative scientist, Kurt is also an absolutely fantastic human. Which is a big part of why I’m so excited about this new book. I can’t wait to read his thoughts about our relationships with rivers.

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Kurt’s fish biology and river ecology research was a huge influence on the way I think about and study rivers, and I was lucky enough to get to spend quite a bit of time with Kurt while he was on sabbatical at my PhD institute working on his first book.

Kurt Fausch has a new book out now (just ordered my copy) about developing an ethic for rivers. I was a huge fan of Kurt’s first book, For the Love of Rivers (I bought copies for everyone in my immediate family), and I’m maybe even more excited to read A Reverence for Rivers.

"Empathy is a weakness" crowd is so funny. That's the meaning of life dawg. That's the one great and universal sense of joy. Playboy

Beautiful!

Leave it to Beaver: How Nature’s Engineers are Helping Us Mitigate Disasters The history of the West has always been defined by water. Long before settlers arrived, Indigenous peoples designed complex water management systems to cultivate the arid land. In the 19th and 20th ce...

Need some easy Friday listening? Interested in #beavers? Check out the latest episode of the Western Governor's Association podcast! Me, Alex Funk, Chris Jordan, Marshall Wolf, and Jerry Altermatt talk beavers, BDAs, science + policy & connect it to disaster mitigation.

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I witnessed something similar with birds on an undergrad field trip to Malheur Wildlife Refuge—a bald eagle was surrounded by thousands of snow geese that were all just hanging out.
Then the eagle hopped right on top of one of the geese and just started ripping its feathers out. So, crabs beware!

State AGs are looking for federal workers who have just been illegally fired to stand as litigants in a new lawsuit trying to freeze further action by DOGE.

DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.

Very cool work!

We need to defend the importance of our work & share how DEI has made our organization better!

AFS has changed a lot (for the better!) since I attended my first chapter conference (ORAFS) 20 years ago. Back then, I was one of the only white women in a sea of white men. Now we have much more diversity & stronger science as a result!

@amfisheriessoc.bsky.social are there any plans to push back on the current pause in NSF grants, threats to fish through undercutting the CWA & other potential changes in land management? How about the attacks on DEI in science?

The proposed mines are in critical habitat for SARA-listed Westslope Cutthroat and Bull Trout, and the area is already struggling with drought. Coal mines poison waterways with toxic amounts of selenium. And tailing pond disasters are never a question of “if,” but “when.”

There’s a beautiful world out there worth fighting for

New website launch for the Fish Behaviorscapes lab! www.fishbehaviorscapeslab.com

Anyone else have a strong, visceral negative reaction to bar charts (other than when used to show proportions)? Just me? I always feel like someone’s trying to hide something from me when they use a bar chart.

I lived in Vancouver for 2 yrs for a postdoc at UBC. I didn’t own a car, which sometimes made it challenging to get to the mountains for trail running, but was otherwise no issue. If I had found a good-paying permanent job, I would’ve loved to have stayed.

AFS Publications Impact statement Understanding catch of wild and hatchery steelhead is important for balancing sport angling and conservation. Wild summer steelhead in the Deschutes River, Oregon, were more freque...

Here’s a direct link to the original publication

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Deschutes Diaries: December 2024 - Bet On Wild | Native Fish Society Deschutes Diaries - Bet On WildExploring Steelhead Trends and Angler Impacts on the Lower DeschutesDecember 2024Welcome back to the Deschutes Diaries! In this series, we delve into the dynamics of...

I wrote up a summary of Seals et al. 2024 for my nonprofit’s blog.
The big take-away: in the Deschutes River, wild fish make up around 65% of steelhead caught in the recreational fishery, even though they’re only about 30% of the total run.

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Unfortunately not 😢
My non-profit allows me travel to one conference a year and it’s usually the Oregon Chapter of the American Fisheries Society.
But if you share the final results (once published) here, I will be sure to read & share!

I’d listen to it!

‘Unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth: Scientists call for halt on ‘mirror life’ microbe research Experts warn that mirror bacteria, constructed from mirror images of molecules found in nature, could put humans, animals and plants at risk of lethal infections

Mirror life, synthetic cells, transgenic organisms, de-extinct species, and functionally distinct nonnative species can all be classed as 'novel biological entities' (those with no analogue in the envt in which they are released) and pose unique biosecurity risks. www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

McDaniel College in Westminster, MD is hiring two positions! I was a visiting professor there for a year, so I’m happy to answer questions if I can:

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Redbands also tend to do better in warmer temps than their coastal counterparts and are more resistant to C. shasta infections. The adfluvial Redbands in the upper Klamath can be as big as steelhead!

Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data A new report adds to a growing line of research showing that police departments don’t solve serious or violent crimes with any regularity, and in fact, spend very little time on crime control, in contrast to popular narratives.

Big thanks to @mekka.mekka-tech.com for spotlighting this article in his thread on what police actually do, and why the NYPD’s slapstick performance after the UHG CEO shooting was not at all surprising.

We Minneapolitans have really got to get this evidence into the city’s political conversation.

What a pretty fish! I wish more people were more appreciative of “rough” fish like suckers.

For your situational awareness, every $1 spent on NOAA yields $9 in benefit to the US economy.