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"Dismayed" is the media-friendly word for how we're feeling about this capture. They couldn't let #Asha the wandering #MexicanWolf go free, it seems. Had to chase her with a helicopter and drop her in captivity.

https://westernwatersheds.org/2023/01/conservation-groups-dismayed-by-agency-removal-of-wandering-wolf-asha/

Daily mass shootings, mass homelessness, & police brutality in the US are not due to “mental health.” They are due to the US failing to provide a livable nation.

#Photomonday

Pretty much ready to fly. Need to install the recovery gear and go. 5.25" diameter, 47" long Doorknob. 38mm motor mount. Planning I180 for the first flight. #rocketry #rockets #modelrockets #highpowerrocketry

@MasterNinjaTS here's my favorite. Some others can be found here (https://www.astrobin.com/users/observatoryj/) and here (https://www.astrobin.com/users/merlin_four/)

@MasterNinjaTS here's another. Not as technically good as the nebula, but still pretty darn cool #astronomy #astrophotography

"This water is hard."

Our local swans returned this morning just as tiny parts of the lake opened up (WTF, it's January). #birds

https://polarjournal.ch/en/2023/01/19/study-shows-warmest-decade-in-the-middle-of-greenland-in-a-thousand-years/

Forgive us for another post about Asha (#GoAsha!), but reading this quote from our deputy director this morning reminded us how much work there is to do in deconstructing the patriarchal management of wildlife.

"KRQE News 13 spoke with Anderson about a key issue for the wolf: finding a mate. “I think if that’s what she wants, and she’s not finding it, she’ll go back to where the other wolves are,” Anderson says. “And we should let her sort of make that decision.”"

https://www.krqe.com/news/advocates-push-feds-to-let-mexican-gray-wolf-roam-free-in-northern-new-mexico-elsewhere/

Heck yeah we want to let her roam! #GoAsha! #MexicanWolves

Anderson, from the Western Watersheds Project, says Asha shouldn’t be forced back. “We want to see wolves recovered on the landscape. We want to see them using the habitat that’s available to them.” The fact that Asha has made it to northern New Mexico might be a sign that the MWEPA needs to be expanded, Anderson adds.
https://www.krqe.com/news/advocates-push-feds-to-let-mexican-gray-wolf-roam-free-in-northern-new-mexico-elsewhere/

Wish I felt the same about my job as I do ice cream.

Honesty, life would be way better if it all was like ice cream.

This is a take. #BureauofLandManagement signage at the #SanPedroRiver in #Arizona headline: "Water... for mining... for life."

Slow progress. I finally got the orange on the 5" Doorknob. #rocketry #highpowerrocketry #rocket #rockets

Frozen ocean in Iceland (apparently very rare) 💎

WWP keeps the wins coming! #Grazing #PublicLand #EndangeredSpecies #RiparianEcology #Arizona https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2023/01/13/forest-service-pulls-approval-of-a-plan-to-allow-more-grazing/69803979007/