Jackie Rai 🇺🇦

Moved this unibrow cutie off the bike path so she wouldn’t get hit. #Ratsnake

Nodding trillium #NativePlants

A Jack-in-the-pulpit wildflower in bloom, with leaves in threes and a hooded pitcher of a flower.

Trilliums by the dozens stretching into the horizon.

A blooming Virginia Spiderwort wildflower with iridescently purple petals on grass-like stalks

Next round of spring ephemerals dropped. Jack-in-the-pulpit, Trilliums, Virginia Spiderwort. #Bloomscrolling #NativePlants

Bloodroot, a native wildflower. It has white petals that seem to glow.

Trout lily, a native wildflower. It has a nodding yellow head and speckled leaves.

A group of spring beauties, a native wildflower. Sweet little white flowers with 5 petals dot the forest floor like stars.

Dutchman’s breeches, a native wildflower. A string of white flowers that hang like little white pants on a clothes line. The leaves are silvery and feathery.

My favorite time of year!
Bloodroot, Yellow trout lily, Spring beauties, and Dutchman’s breeches. The first of more to come! #nativeplants #springephemerals

Ohh "America First" was a hit list

Amazing! 😂

A jumping spider with big cute eyes.

Puppy dog eyes. #JumpingSpider

Bloodroot wildflowers on the forest floor

Happy Spring Equinox, and the beautiful procession of ephemerals that follows! #nativeplants #bloodroot

A moonlit landscape of a pond surrounded by trees.

Visiting the vernal pool by moonlight. 🐸

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Great Gray Owl at Sax Zim Bog.

Are there any species that may go extinct as a direct result of this administration shutting down your programs?

Republicans: Negatively impacting everyone in every way conceivable and then some

Simple Sabotage A sub for discussion and updating of the Simple Sabotage Field Manual for modern usage.

A subreddit forming to update the manual with modern examples:

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

Yes! Just finished reading it today. Everyone NEEDS to read this!

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

This is Oligarchy. The three richest men in the world have become $196 BILLION richer since Donald Trump was elected.

$196 billion for three men in 99 days.

Meanwhile, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.

How federal hiring freeze could get 'scary' for Great Smoky Mountains National Park President Trump's hiring freeze forced national parks to rescind more than 2,000 seasonal and permanent positions.

A federal hiring freeze has forced 2,000+ jobs rescinded, leaving Great Smoky Mountains NP—and others—understaffed & vulnerable.

Coalition Chair Phil Francis explains how this will threaten visitor experience, park safety & local economies.👇

www.knoxnews.com/story/news/l...

#NationalParks #NPS

It’s been a superb owl week for me but this little Eastern screechy was my favorite! Happy #SuperbOWL day!

Eastern tiger salamander in moss

Northern slimy salamander in leaves

Long-tailed salamander on a rock

Spring salamander in a stream

Forget groundhogs, I think the 2nd of February would be better as Salamander Day. Over the next six weeks (whether they be more like spring or winter) many species will make the incredible journey to their breeding grounds. What a beautiful symbol of resurrection and resilience. Happy #Imbolc!

There will be a new world order (for better or for worse) on the other side of this. We will win this by fighting FOR what we want to be the new norms. It’s not enough to dismantle hatred and authoritarianism, we have to rebuild better.

A moment of joy watching a flock of about 500 snow geese with many blue geese in their midst!

#DelmarvaBirding

We are deeply concerned about the current state of our country. As civil servants, we are doing everything in our power to resist, even if it costs us our jobs. We are proud to be Americans, but what is happening right now does not reflect the values we, as Americans, stand for!

Photo of a white wolf Caption reads Reward for info regarding poached yellowstone white wolf raised to $25K

There's already too few Rangers in the park. Dangerously few. Trump wants to cut $587 million from the NPS budget. (17%).

This means our national parks will be even more vulnerable to poaching.

Get in this fight and help us defend our parks
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Spot the owl 👀

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

Sunrise over the Monocacy National Battlefield in Frederick, Maryland.

Shock and awe is a tactic designed to overwhelm in order to gain control. They want you to feel helpless right now. Don’t give in! Choosing to have hope is an act of #resistance.

It’s official: In the USA The Gulf of Mexico is now the “Gulf of America,” and Denali, the Alaska Native name for North America’s tallest peak, has been reverted to Mount McKinley. But we refuse to accept this change—Denali will always be Denali to us. #IStandWithDenali