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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 9h

Excellent

Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 10h

Yes I mention this briefly in my essay here but there are as you mention interesting studies proving the science. There’s also some work showing the connection between salmon on mushrooms and mycelium networks in forests.

Salmon is vital for everything here.

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A Wild River of Food: How Traditional Knowledge Can Help Rewild Ecosystems

The Klamath River, vital for ecosystems and Indigenous cultures, underwent a historic dam removal, enhancing salmon populations essential for ecological health. This restoration reflects deep triba…

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 13h

Wild sacred lands with no billboards, no new mining scars or paved roads.

“National monuments go beyond protecting land; they are acts of memory, our acknowledgment that certain histories, species and landscapes hold stories too vital to be entered into a balance sheet.”

Beautiful, by Josh Jackson

High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 14h

A decade of organizing secured Chuckwalla National Monument — but a federal review, DOJ memo, lawsuit, and bills in Congress now threaten not just Chuckwalla, but monuments across the West. These unprecedented threats make public voices and vigilance more crucial than ever.

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The case for national monuments - High Country News

National monuments across the West face unprecedented threats, making public voices and vigilance more crucial than ever.

www.hcn.org

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 1d

Hanging onto every bit of good news

The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.

This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.

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One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible

Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 2d

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 2d

A rule lets livestock facilities not report ammonia & hydrogen sulfide pollution. Industry groups say the data is "of no particular value."
But advocates say this data could help communities hold CAFOs responsible for brain & lung damage caused by these emissions.
capitalpress.com/2025/10/07/a...

Appeal challenges livestock exemption to federal emissions reporting law | Capital Press

Environmental and animal rights advocates are appealing a ruling that allowed large livestock facilities to be exempted from federal emergency hazardous emissions reporting requirements. In August, a ...

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 6d

This month, we will be hosting the 6th annual free, virtual Food Justice Film Festival. This year featuring Black, Hawaiian and other Indigenous farmers, co ops, community gardens, and interviews with filmmakers and food activists.

Sign up:
www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/pop...

FoodJusticeFilmFestival.org, image of salmon in stream, potatoes in hands, overhead of squash, hands holding soil, two people with arms raised at a river, and corn in a field.

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 7d

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 7d

A committee of tribal members named the place tooromakma hinse nii (pronounced toe row mock ma hēēn say knee), which, in the Mutsun language, means “bobcats wander here.”

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 7d

The Amah Mutsun are getting #LandBack within their ancestral territory of Juristac, in the Pajaro watershed, for the first time since dispossessed by mission San Juan Bautista.
baynature.org/2025/09/20/t...

A Land Back Success for the Amah Mutsun Within Its Historical Territory - Bay Nature

The tribe has been without a land base for more than 200 years.

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 7d

I was sorry to hear of his passing this morning, this gentle spirit he was, a loss for the Irish language and lovers of the wild world indeed.

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 7d

What does a healthier diet look like for us and for the planet? The new EAT-Lancet report is out today.

With less food waste, better farming shifting diets with 2/3 more fruit +veg+nuts & much less meat we can cut food emissions in half & protect water & wildlife.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems

The global context has shifted dramatically since publication of the first EAT–Lancet Commission in 2019, with increased geopolitical instability, soaring food prices, and the COVID-19 pandemic exacer...

www.thelancet.com

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 8d

I think Alicia Kennedy might have talked about this a bit

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Ted Zukoski @tedzukoski.bsky.social · 9d

The drying of the Great Salt Lake in Utah is threatening the survival of a rare shorebird. @biologicaldiversity.org is preparing a lawsuit to protect the Wilson’s Phalarope and the lake #birds
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Wilson's phalaropes take flight from tufa towers at Mono Lake, CA. Ron Ozuna photo. Used with permission from Center for Biological Diversity.

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 8d

Public Citizen (org) filed a Hatch Act lawsuit re HUD today.

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 9d

He gutted much of the USDA’s food programs too and yet

Insane Hatch-Act violating text on the USDA agency site ranting about political issues, blaming one political party and glorifying the Emperor’s new clothes.

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 9d

At a time when we need more of her and less of the rest, it is our great loss.

Eternally grateful for the kindness with which she lived by example, her revolutionary study of chimpanzees that shifted scientific understanding of animals and nature, and decades of advocating for a humane world.

My hero Jane Goodall. Text reads 1934-2025.

Jane Goodall comforts a frightened chimpanzee, early in her career, in Gombe National Park.

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 9d

We (@biologicaldiversity.org) filed a lawsuit today seeking public records about the USDA’s devastating cuts to programs that support farmers, local food, urban green spaces and conservation education for food producers that increase equitable access to land and markets for underserved producers.

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 9d

Look at this crazy header on the US Forest Service website right now. On an official nonpartisan governmental website - a publicly funded agency.

Wild stuff.

Header for the US Forest Service website blames one political party for the shut down and claims the president is trying to keep the government open (on his terms only).

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 9d

A recipe for disaster. Looking to the last shutdown, petroglyphs were vandalized, off-roading tore up fragile ecosystems in Death Valley and Joshua Tree, and overflowing human waste and trash forced Sequoia and Kings Canyon to close.

High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 9d

Under the federal government shutdown, public lands agencies say they’ll keep parks open and continue oil and gas permitting — even as they furlough tens of thousands of employees. Advocates warn the approach will do lasting ecological damage.

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What the government shutdown means for public lands - High Country News

Many parks will stay open, and oil and gas permitting will continue — even as tens of thousands of staff are furloughed at NPS, BLM and USFS.

www.hcn.org

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 9d

May we lean into her light footsteps and away from those that carry us toward darkness

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 9d

At a time when we need more of her and less of the rest, it is our great loss.

Eternally grateful for the kindness with which she lived by example, her revolutionary study of chimpanzees that shifted scientific understanding of animals and nature, and decades of advocating for a humane world.

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The Revelator @therevelator.org · 11d

Birds do it. Wildebeests do it. Sharks do it, too — migrate, that is. We have the latest science on their incredible (and unexpected) journeys. @melissagaskill.bsky.social reports: https://therevelator.org/migration-sharks/

Incredible Journeys: Migratory Sharks on the Move • The Revelator

Even as scientists rush to identify the migratory paths of some endangered shark species to help better protect them, climate change and other threats shift this behavior, adding urgency to the research.

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 9d

Sounds wild. The first episode of an inspiring new podcast from @biologicaldiversity.org on fighting the extinction crisis. This episode features Tierra Curry, hellbenders, monarch butterflies, freshwater mussels and converting despair into hope.

www.iheart.com/podcast/269-...

Pika chirping under text that reads SOUNDS WILD.

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 10d

I’d love this full paper, thank you!

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 10d

Well it’s not biblical but it’s more relevant: US ag has always been based on an extractivist export model.
I don’t think this crowd cares for sustainability, so good luck getting US consumers to eat even more CAFO pigs 🐖🐖🐖 and the like.

I discuss origins here - DM me if interested in the paper.

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