Really great to see Nina Eydelman of Animal Protection of New Mexico standing up to ranchers:
“Wolves belong in the #wild and each individual wolf is essential to the species’ survival. Ranchers who choose to place their domestic cattle on our #PublicLands should have to accept the conditions that come with those public lands, including the presence of healthy populations of native #carnivores. #Wolves were there first.”
Today's proclamation by U.S. President Biden establishing Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument explicitly includes the protection of dark night skies as part of the new monument's first resource management plan.
Petroglyphs at Una Vida
Chaco Culture National Historic Park, NM
I'm not a photographer. A Photographer would have timed the visit to when the light fell uniformly across the cliff face. I'm just a person who takes photos of the places I'm visiting.
But these petroglyphs as so cool, I thought you'd like to see them even so.
Poppy from the Cal Fire Sonoma Lake Napa Unit, Healdsburg, California. The lupine were also opening up at this time. More at #publiclands#photography#phenology#calfire#flowers Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs
"in granting #homeless individuals the right to sleep on #publiclands the Ninth Circuit has created perhaps the first federal social welfare right in American constitutional history. "
The fourth consecutive photo from my camp at Marble Canyon, this time looking NE—Lee's Ferry is just behind the leftmost ridge. I used 70mm to isolate the peak.
This is from my very first visit to this amazing place. I was in such awe I only managed to take a couple photos. I've since been back many, many times and have many, many wonderful photos (some of which I've already shared here and more to come, I'm sure.)