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People ought to saunter in the mountains
People ought to saunter in the mountains
Profile of the bone collector
A dead whale shows up on your beach. What do you do with the 40-ton carcass?
A dead whale shows up on your beach. What do you do with the 40-ton carcass?
A fin whale washed ashore in Anchorage and was left there for months. Then a self-described ‘wacko’ museum director made a plan
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Profile of the bone collector
August 3rd update
What remains of the Anchorage fin whale, now broken into smaller chunks and scattered. At this point, most people know the whale by the smell that lingers along the coastal trail. May the gods help the person whose dog rolls in this
December 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
August 3rd update
It really was a bizarre experience. White knuckle driving. Debris, trees resting on wires, garbage cans whipping across the road, cottonwoods swaying
December 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
It really was a bizarre experience. White knuckle driving. Debris, trees resting on wires, garbage cans whipping across the road, cottonwoods swaying
Woot! Look at that 31 degree drop on Dec 4th! What causes that?
November 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Woot! Look at that 31 degree drop on Dec 4th! What causes that?
"....However, between 2022 and 2025, five iNaturalist observations and a Facebook post documented beetles matching the species’ appearance at pathogen-resistant hybrid chestnut plantings..."
See iNat observation from Sept 2022, noticed and recognized for what it was in August the following year!
See iNat observation from Sept 2022, noticed and recognized for what it was in August the following year!
Greater Chestnut Weevil (Curculio caryatrypes)
Greater Chestnut Weevil in September 2022 by Neal Kelso. This observation sparked an investigation of *C. caryatrypes* on citizen science platforms, led b...
www.inaturalist.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
"....However, between 2022 and 2025, five iNaturalist observations and a Facebook post documented beetles matching the species’ appearance at pathogen-resistant hybrid chestnut plantings..."
See iNat observation from Sept 2022, noticed and recognized for what it was in August the following year!
See iNat observation from Sept 2022, noticed and recognized for what it was in August the following year!