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DEVELOPING: Mayor Michael Vargas just told Perris, CA residents to shelter in place and ignore door knocks—ICE is sweeping the streets.

This country’s war on immigrants is a war on all of us. Don’t look away.

Our roads need fresh gravel, they're getting dusty.

More of this please, this is the real America.

We were going through some sort of website transfer thing recently, but I thought that was over. Maybe it's not? I hope they're not getting swept, I was just referencing a handy chart last week and thought I should download it because I didn't have a copy saved. Hopefully it's not too late...

FS websites haven't been working consistently over the last few days.

Forest Service leadership is full of complacent wimps. They won't stand up for the hardworking people at the Forests and Districts. It's been a problem for a while, and now they'll just let this admin walk all over them until the agency dissolves.

I think a lot about how in the U.S. we have had nearly no commemoration or collective grieving over the losses we had due to Covid-19.Millions of people have had their grief dismissed and ignored and were forced back into a society pretending it never happened. How much could we have healed society?

Who still thinks it is at all reasonable to have any business dealing with or, worse, dependencies on this clown?

1910 First scientist hired at the Forest Products Laboratory (Eloise B. Gerry). • 1913 First forest fire lookout (Hallie M. Daggett - Klamath National Forest [NF]) • 1957 First forester hired (Joanne G. McElfresh - Deerlodge NF). • 1978 First to head a research project (Jackie Robertson at Pacific Southwest Station - PSW). • 1978 First special agent (Janet Arling). • 1979 First District Ranger (Wendy Milner Herrett - Blanco RD, White River NF). • 1985 First Forest Supervisor (Geri B. Larson - Tahoe NF). • 1991 First Director of a Research Station (Barbara C. Weber at PSW). • 1992 First Regional Forester (Elizabeth Estill - Rocky Mountain Region 2). • 1999 First Associate Chief for Natural Resources (Hilda Diaz-Soltero - Washington office). • 2002 First Chief Operating Officer/Associate Chief (Sally Collins - Washington office) • 2007 First Chief of the Forest Service (Abigail R. Kimbell)

First, First, First.

Who imagined celebrating “firsts” would be an act of #resistance in 2025?

To honor #InternationalWomensDay here are key “firsts” for women of the Forest Service.

With our web sites scrubbed, see our #ForestService #HerStory at @archive.org:

web.archive.org/web/20241231...

I’ve been experiencing my country’s collapse and lapse in values too much. Mental break time!

Today I am investing in posting some everyday joy onto this platform instead, spending some time creating what I want to see in the world.

Love those carnivorous plants!

Yeah, seems risky, but bacon does go with many things!

Three plastic bottles with alphabets from many languages sit in the sand and rocks of the beach.

WD-40 from Japan in front of driftwood and blue sky

Small collection of international trash I find on west coast beaches.

#beachclean #beachtrash #plasticwaste #plasticocean

Close up of a white spider hanging from the edge of a pink rhododendron flower.

First spring like day and I’m ready to prance through the rhododendrons.

#rhododendron #springtime #flowers #springlove

Bulbous orange pink and blue clouds hang over many haystack rocks in the ocean. The overall scene has a stunning pink hue.

Since so many people liked the last photo, here is one of the craziest beach photos I’ve taken. This was at a stormy sunrise. No filters, even in real life this looked unbelievable. #epicview #westcoast #photography

“Cape Perpetua Visitor Center will no longer have any temporary or permanent seasonal staffing for interpretation. That means very limited education programs and guided hikes this summer season.”

None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.

It’s just so sad. Most everyone I work with has cleared out their desks of personal items, prepared to be fired at any time.

I’m so sorry, the list is long, and these people did important and necessary work.

A breakdown of how many people each National
Forest lost from firing people on probation. I have a full video to share but Bluesky isn’t letting me upload videos right now.

@altusfs.bsky.social
@altnps.bsky.social

The beach near sunset, the clouds are splitting the sun into rays upward, the sky is blue and yellow and reflecting off the wet sand of the beach. Large rocks of varying sizes stick up on the horizon.

Okay, Flashes, let’s do this, let’s make social media fun and useful again.

I am aware, and I also do not want that to happen. I’m just asking for tact and empathy for folks who are experiencing those hardships now.

Though all those things may be true. Bragging about not being in distress while people are frantically fighting our way through this seems snarky and hurtful.These are real humans cut off from their income, in a place they can’t afford to live, watching their sacrifices and values get trampled.

That’s great for Canada. We may actually lose ours, and as someone who is directly affected by that, your comment isn’t kind or helpful or funny.

Please take the time to comment!

Airbnb’s co-founder is joining Elon Musk’s DOGE Gebbia, a close friend of Musk, has praised DOGE’s work and defended it against criticisms on social media

Time to evict AirBnB from your life, if you have't already.

You know what would improve mental and physical health outcomes in the US? Making sure kids aren’t homeless and get meals consistently, affordable or universal health care, local low cost food systems, time and space for people to grow and cook food. They will provide no real solutions.

Need more fit checks, is that a wool sweater? Haha

Chuck Schumer has an exciting plan to appeal to younger voters and is at this moment recording his own dis track against Drake.