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Peter Brown @rmtrr.bsky.social · 6d

These motherfuckers...

USDA Forest Service publications page with message that the shutdown is the Dems fault...

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Peter Brown @rmtrr.bsky.social · Sep 7

Another excellent example of “break shit and fuck the consequences” of this fucking administration…

Tom Swetnam @firescar.bsky.social · Sep 7

Our op-ed in the Santa Fe New Mexican today highlights the potential losses from closure of the nine US Forest Service Regional Offices, namely local leadership knowledge and capacity, experienced people, and priceless documentary records: www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_v...

The legacy lost when Forest Service offices shut down

After 117 years of operation, the U.S. Forest Service’s Southwest Regional Office in Albuquerque is closing by order of the secretary of agriculture. Since 1908, this office has directed the

www.santafenewmexican.com

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Peter Brown @rmtrr.bsky.social · Sep 4

Some more info on the firefighter arrests by ICE by Hunter on UnchartedBlue; "Yet another basic government task collapses into chaos, distrust, and apparent sabotage." www.unchartedblue.com/firefighters...

Firefighters claim their own management team set them up for DHS harassment and arrests

Yet another basic government task collapses into chaos, distrust, and apparent sabotage.

www.unchartedblue.com

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Peter Brown @rmtrr.bsky.social · Sep 2

In England do they call it a froot?

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Peter Brown @rmtrr.bsky.social · Sep 2

Completely unacceptable!

Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · Sep 1

This story just got even worse:

Firefighters question leaders’ role in Washington immigration raid

Wildfire veterans believe top officials on the fire sent their crews into an ambush

Firefighters question leaders’ role in Washington immigration raid • Stateline

Wildland firefighters were stunned when federal immigration authorities last week raided an active wildfire response in Washington state, arresting two firefighters and sidelining crews for hours.

stateline.org

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Peter Brown @rmtrr.bsky.social · Aug 31

“I’ve never wished a man dead, but I’ve read some obituaries with great pleasure.” Clarence Darrow

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Pieter Zuidema @pieterzuidema.bsky.social · Aug 29

#Tree stems accumulate biomass by adding volume of certain density. Which factor is more important?

Using tropical #treering data we found: diameter increment explains biomass growth at short term; wood density at long term.🌎🌐🍁
#dendrochronology
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Biomass production of tropical trees across space and time: The shifting roles of diameter growth and wood density

Diameter growth is an important and good indicator of forest carbon production. However, size-related changes in wood density, which are usually neglected, are critical for accurate short- and long-t...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Please see our new paper just published in Global Change Biology: “Intensifying fire season aridity portends ongoing expansion of severe wildfire in western US forests”. 🧪🌍🔥

Intensifying Fire Season Aridity Portends Ongoing Expansion of Severe Wildfire in Western US Forests

Area burned by wildfire has increased in western US forests over recent decades. However, high-severity fire—fire that kills all or most trees—is also an important metric of fire activity given its d...

doi.org

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Peter Brown @rmtrr.bsky.social · Aug 22

Good article, but wildfire is never “preventable”; all of the management strategies outlined will never stop wildfire from burning at some point, but will “mitigate” severe effects and damage to human infrastructure. But fire itself is inevitable in these ecosystems; best accept that fact.

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · Aug 22

The dramatic images from wildfires tearing through Spain and Portugal year after year have become a mainstay of Europe’s increasingly blistering summers.

But experts say that most of the damage is, in fact, preventable — if only authorities at regional, national and European levels would act.

Wildfires are preventable. So why does the Iberian Peninsula keep burning?

Governments can’t use climate change as an excuse for failing to take preventive measures, scientists say.

ow.ly

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Peter Brown @rmtrr.bsky.social · Aug 15

‘Bout g-damn time!!

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Aug 15

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "God damnit. Enough. Democrats, stop being weak. Step up. These guys have been dominant in the narrative. They have been defining the terms of the debate. It's time to get off our damn heels, onto our front toes... It's time for us to all band together."

Peter Brown @rmtrr.bsky.social · Aug 10

Oh, and Victoria Falls on the mighty Zambezi; easy to see why they always call it mighty!

Victoria Falls from Zimbabwe side, with rainbow.

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Peter Brown @rmtrr.bsky.social · Aug 10

I can die happy: saw a herd of elephants on the Okavango. Photos still to be processed. Meantime here’s a shot of elephants coming to drink at the Elephant Sands in Botswana. Elephants everywhere around here!

Elephants coming to drink in early evening at Elephant Sands, Botswana, with full moon in background.

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Tom Swetnam @firescar.bsky.social · Jul 20

The Turkeyfeather Fire in the Gila Wilderness, NM has burned as a low-severity fire over about 24,000 acres (so far). This is a continuation of a fire regime that existed for millennia before the 20th century. This 🧵reviews the fire history of the Gila, as my colleagues and I have studied it. 1/18

low severity surface fire burning through a ponderosa pine forest

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Peter Brown @rmtrr.bsky.social · Jul 15

Such a neat story!

Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · Jul 15

Fun bit of geochronology detective work, hypothesizing that the Meteor Crater Impact (Arizona) caused a landslide and paleolake formation in the Grand Canyon, and it all started with the discovery of driftwood in Stanton’s Cave in the 1980s pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...

Grand Canyon landslide-dam and paleolake triggered by the Meteor Crater impact at 56 ka | Geology | GeoScienceWorld

pubs.geoscienceworld.org

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Peter Brown @rmtrr.bsky.social · Jul 2

Hi Isabella, nice write up and interesting work! FYI Ros was the San Juan fire ecologist before her back country career and has published several papers on fire and forest histories. EG Brown and Wu 2005 Ecology, my favorite study!

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Peter Brown @rmtrr.bsky.social · Jun 28

Yep.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Jun 28

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

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Peter Brown @rmtrr.bsky.social · May 3

Just arrived back in US on flight from London that was maybe half full. Mostly American accents I heard. Bad time to be in the US tourist business…

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Peter Brown @rmtrr.bsky.social · Apr 21

The view from the top of the Eiffel Tower yesterday. I was here 51 years ago wandering Europe for the summer but too cheap to pay to go to the top; finally made it!

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Neil Pederson @yellowbuckeye.bsky.social · Apr 7

It was uplifting to see ongoing studies of rare & threatened species, old-growth forests, bird energetics, the creativity of ecological education, & other acts of resilience at the the Northeast Natural History Conference as others said Hands Off (<- thank you)

Trillium cuneatum leaves and bud emerging from the long winter

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Peter Brown @rmtrr.bsky.social · Apr 4

#firescarfriday Here's Chris Baisan from Tree-Ring Lab in Tucson sampling a giant sequoia stump with several "eye socket" fire-scar catfaces. Record was 80+ fire scars in one of these; ground level in the past was higher, hence the whole socket begin visible.
flic.kr/p/QhK6pV

EyeSocketCutting-1

flic.kr

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Peter Brown @rmtrr.bsky.social · Apr 3

“Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer

Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Brown @rmtrr.bsky.social · Apr 2

Cory Booker for president!!

(We know he can stay up all night…)

Peter Brown @rmtrr.bsky.social · Apr 1

Finally someone speaking some truth to power, and oh what a mass of speaking he’s doing! Go Cory!!

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Apr 1

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!

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Peter Brown @rmtrr.bsky.social · Mar 28

Thought this was nothing but a SLAPP trail, and wonderful to have this insight. "There are realistic scenarios where Greenpeace emerges from this experience stronger than ever. ... The world will respond."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I was an independent observer in the Greenpeace trial. What I saw was shocking | Steven Donziger

Greenpeace lost – not because it did something wrong but because it was denied a fair trial

www.theguardian.com

Peter Brown @rmtrr.bsky.social · Mar 25

Looking forward to reading this one!

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