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A night sky filled with stars features a colorful aurora. A dark silhouette of hills rests at the bottom, above which a band of green light transitions into a brilliant, deep reddish-pink and magenta glow that fades into the dark purple cosmos above.

A dark silhouette of hills rests beneath a star-filled night sky. Above the hills, an aurora displays a band of green light that blends upward into a vibrant reddish-pink and magenta glow, ultimately dissolving into the dark purple cosmos.

We had a heck of a view out in SWWYO last night as solar particles line-danced across Earth’s magnetosphere last night! ✨

#aurora #stars #wyoming #beautiful

Bull moose hanging out with a cow and calf in a field of fall grass.

Welcome to Moose Monday

Scenic pictures of the sagebrush steppe, including a sign that reads, “Moose are dangerous. Give ’em room!”

Out here in SWWYO the hazards speak for themselves. They're wildin' (…about environmental science!). 🤠 #moose #environment #science #fieldwork

Large herd of Bison on an endless field of spring green grass.

Welcome to Tatonka Tuesday

Oh my!

I want to connect with and highlight more trans voices working with plants, wildlife, and the natural environment so I've created a starter pack!

If this sounds like you, introduce yourself by quote-posting this skeet and I'll add you to the list 🏳️‍⚧️

Thank you so much! 🙏🏼:)

Hi there! PhD trans lady here. I’m a geocomputational environmental archaeologist. My crazy studies adaptive evolutionary diversity in prehistoric subsistence-settlement systems across intermountain North America. :)

I met an old soul Utah Juniper last week while completing fieldwork. It’s a living pillar that has likely stood here (in SWWYO) for beyond a millennia. It has witnessed languages rise and fall, migrations beneath cold stars, and the hush of lives past. Displays a large Utah juniper in the sagebrush steppe landscape

I met an old soul Utah Juniper last week while completing fieldwork. It’s a living pillar that has likely endured (SWWYO) for more than a millennia (TBD). It has witnessed languages rise and fall, migrations beneath cold stars, and the hush of lives past.

#botany #QueerInStem #landscapearchaeology

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

Ain’t no party like a fieldwork party ’cause a fieldwork party don’t stop—it just gets sunburned, loses cell service, and celebrates with lukewarm Gatorade and data sheets. Picture of field researcher with funny face mask among juniper grove.

Ain’t no party like a fieldwork party ’cause a fieldwork party don’t stop—it just gets sunburned, loses cell service, and celebrates with lukewarm Gatorade and data sheets.

#science #QueerInSTEM #BeYouInStem #paleoethnobotany #ResearchMatters

This is the best team crossover video I've ever seen.

🌱 Regenerative agriculture is the medicine our planet desperately needs.

Zion NP sunsets are a whole vibe. Zion canyon overlook trail at sunset.

Zion NP sunsets are a whole vibe.

#Zion #Nature #naturephotography #canyonviews #desertvibes #hikingadventure

Science is more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking; a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along. Carl Sagan

Tufted Evening Primrose (Oenothera caespitosa). Opens at dusk, pollinated by hawkmoths. Leaves + roots used historically by Indigenous groups for poultices, food, and ceremonial healing. Thrives in rocky, well-drained soils of sagebrush steppe and pinyon-juniper woodlands of SWWYO.

Tufted Evening Primrose (Oenothera caespitosa). Opens at dusk, pollinated by hawkmoths. Leaves + roots used historically by Indigenous groups for poultices, food, and ceremonial healing. Thrives in rocky, well-drained soils of sagebrush steppe and pinyon-juniper woodlands of SWWYO.

Badger in profile in a mixed short and tall grass field.

Happy Badger

Fashionably late: [Trans] visibility, for me, lives in a niche presence—showing up as a queer scholar and science communicator in underrepresented spaces. It’s the soft strength of authenticity, the echo of those who came before, and pride as shared dignity with my community and chosen family. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Fashionably late: [Trans] visibility, for me, lives in a niche presence—showing up as a queer scholar and science communicator in underrepresented spaces. It’s the soft strength of authenticity, the echo of those who came before, and pride as shared dignity with my community and chosen family. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Baby badger out in the spring grass

Badger kit

Bison laying down in the snow with some tall grass poking through and bare mountain side behind him.

Bison retain their food longer in the winter, which means they can eat less and still benefit from the heat generated by digestion.
As far as this guys concerned, that snowy bed is just as comfortable as it gets.

Interested :)

A few hundred years ago the great plains were teaming with wildlife. In pre-Columbian times there were more pronghorn than there were buffalo. Thirty million bison and fifty million pronghorn 40 million deer and 10 million elk.
Today the numbers are quite a bit different.

A herd of bison stretching off into the distance on a snowy prairie.

Bison should be allowed to roam free and cattle should be restricted to private land.
All abandoned barbed wire should be removed from public land.
The money today being wasted on public lands grazing should go into building wildlife overpasses and installing wildlife safe guide fencing.

Do you have a specific photographic region or (assuming) prehistoric complex in mind?

Western Wyoming Intermountain Flora. In bloom. Spring Phenophase. Abundant needle-leaf fleabane (Erigeron nematophyllus), yellow rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus), and Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata wyomingensis).

Abundant needle-leaf fleabane (Erigeron nematophyllus), yellow rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus), and Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata wyomingensis). In bloom during their typical late spring phenophase in the intermountain region of western Wyoming.

Arrowleaf Balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata) in full bloom brings vitality to the Sagebrush steppe of the intermountain west.

Arrowleaf Balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata) in full bloom brings vitality to the Sagebrush steppe of the intermountain west.