Wildlife lover, advocate & author. President of The Wildlife Crossing Fund. Loves wandering in Yosemite. Vegetarian. P22🩷. Tweets rep me
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A magical time of year is coming in February- a chance to see a natural #firefall at #horsetailfall in @YosemiteNPS Last year was the most amazing one I have ever witnessed-this video captured the wind moving the water in a spectacular show. #yosemite #yosemitefirefall
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River otters make comeback at Bay Area ranch for first time in over 100 years sfgate.com/local/article/bay…
ALT River otters make comeback at Bay Area ranch for first time in over 100 years
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“….mostly, the monarch persists because life’s job is to live; because within those thimble-size bodies hides a dynamo of survival that puts our most incredible machines to shame.” @TheAtlantic
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A fun sighting on the Sunshine Hill wildlife cameras: Northern pygmy owl.
From my book, Yosemite Wildlife: “Pygmy owl—a lovable killer,” declared naturalist Enid Michael. A small but mighty bird, the northern pygmy-owl (Glaucidium gnoma) does not hesitate totake on prey many times their size, even, as Beedy and Pandolfino noted, “domestic chickens more than 60 times their ownweight.” Unlike most other owls, the northern pygmy-owl is active both day and night, and a common indication of the owl’s presence is a mob of squawking songbirds trying to chase off their would-be predator."
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So glad to see this amazing book back in print, @PaleoLaura !
The second edition of my book on the historical ecology of California is out! 🎉 📘📖Updated info on grizzlies, elk, wolves, condors, salmon, old growth native grasslands and more. Holocene California. My next book will be going back deeper in time
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Yosemite's high country got some snow on the top of the peaks from the storm this week.
via @YoseConservancy webcam
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“That the numbers of bears being hit by cars are up again this year is no surprise,” said Beth Pratt… “We warned this would happen when no limits were put on visitation.” @SFGate @AshleyHarrell3
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My favorite too, @MuseZack
My favorite Tom Skerritt movie role is playing the minister father from A River Runs Through It. He so inhabits a character who loves his favorite son while knowing at a bone deep level that he's doomed that it breaks your heart.
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Happy P-22 Day! In 2016, October 22 was declared by the City of Los Angeles as the official P-22 Day, and we held our first P-22 Day Festival.
This year we made the tough decision to not hold the festival, because our small team did not have the bandwidth for two big events with the crossing ribbon-cutting approaching.
But we’ll be back next year to celebrate our boy, the remarkable mountain lion that was P-22. I miss him greatly.
Photo by Miguel Ordeñana
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Great post by Steve Hampton about the mass movement of nutcrackers down from them alpine homes. Folks have reported seeing Clark's nutcrackers in Mariposa this year. Have you seen any?
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Liberty loves to play the hose game. Adopted from Eastwood Ranch Foundation and living her best life.
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Beth Pratt retweeted
Have you ever seen a horseshoe crab molt?!
Molting is how horseshoe crabs grow, and younger horseshoe crabs can molt several times a year!
ALT A hand holding a small, translucent sea creature with a spiky tail against a plain background.
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Manhattan's Upper West Side has been reveling in the company of its latest celebrities: A family of barn owls nested in a water tower atop a building near Central Park. to.pbs.org/4s6kbhi
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