The federal government took a major step forward Friday toward opening more than 2,800 acres of Ohio’s only national forest to oil and gas development.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced a lease sale scheduled for Sept. 15 of 41 parcels of land in the Wayne National Forest totaling 2,840 acres.
Although some bureaucratic hurdles remain, a lease sale brings fracking the forest for the first time
– the subject of political effort since at least 2016
– far clos…
A Conjuring Of Clouds
Yesterday's evening walk... It's been a great week for cloud spotting, but with dozens of storm cells & hail moving through the area all week...
(Also thinking about the connotation to wildfires raging in Canada... 😢)
#MonochromeMonday #LandscapePhotography
just the loveliest of summer evenings at the forest hills tennis stadium with yo la tengo opening for wilco (extra jammy "tom courtenay"), elegant career-spanning wilco set, & epic 2-band encore, "i heard you looking" > "spiders", YLT starting as a trio & joined by the wilcos. stadium-sized ira the k. good segue, too!
One of the views of a recent hike. After quite a while I reached the ridge and finally got the south bound views.
I took some photos while having a little rest and then went on to the summit ...
That day I really noticed how great the rests work together with making photos. And also one of the things that I can hardly do when hiking in a group.
some more of the story:
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #LateJunction
Forest Factory:
🎵 TIKTIKTIK
#ForestFactory
plant_pol_kato: Kato plant-pollinator web
A bipartite network of plants and pollinators from Kyoto University Forest of Ashu, Japan, from 1984 to 1987. Edge weights represent frequency of interactions.
This network has 772 nodes and 1206 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted
https://networks.skewed.d…
Two girls running in Hammond Hill State Forest last Saturday at the Thom B Trail Runs
#photo #photography #running #sports
KI-Startup gewinnt Hollywood-Legende: Martin Scorsese berät Black Forest Labs
Der berühmte Regisseur Martin Scorsese berät ein deutsches KI-Unternehmen, wie Tools für Filmschaffende interessanter gemacht werden können.
"France adds 157,000 hectares of protected forest as nature preserves face pressure elsewhere"
#France #Nature #Trees #Environment
U.S. President Donald Trump is blaming Canadian forest management for the smoke that has blanketed parts of the United States, threatening to increase tariffs to compensate for U.S. expenses caused by plummeting air quality.
But a wildfire expert says the President’s claims lack grounding in science and excoriated the remedies aimed at Canada as being unreasonable.
#REALITYCHECK…
Just another place we visited in the Fränkische Schweiz. We just walked along a little stream and suddenly passed through this rock-gate with all the lush green on either side.
Just beautiful.
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2026/caves-and-meadows-d…
French firefighters are tackling a blaze of unprecedented scale sweeping through Fontainebleau forest south-east of Paris,
while in southern Spain the prime minister visited the scene of a deadly wildfire and warned:
“The climate emergency kills.”
The fire in Fontainebleau, a one-time royal hunting preserve about 40 miles (60km) from the French capital
that today is dotted with villages,
began late on Sunday afternoon.
The blaze, which is unusual in its p…
Lattice Semiconductor agrees to acquire AMI for $1.65B in cash and stock; Georgia-based AMI provides firmware and infrastructure manageability for cloud and AI (Mike Rogoway/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/
One of the largest Green Methanol projects outside China has been cancelled 🌿🧪
The Beaver Lake Renewable Energy project was supposed to be a large-scale Biomethanol plant in Alexandria (Louisiana, USA). Plans were to do forest residue🌳🪵 gasification with technology from C2X (backed by A.P. Moller - Maersk) and combine it with CCS/CDR.
From The Tyee's Daily Catch
“We live in on a rural property with a lot of mostly mature trees. While I agree with some of the FireSmart recommendations, I’m not going to cut down all these trees in order to have a slightly better chance of saving the house and any outbuildings in case of a forest fire. If I wanted to live on a bald prairie, I’d move to Alberta or Saskatchewan (shudder).... All of us reading The Tyee know exactly what’s triggering all these wildfires, torrential rai…
RE: https://social.ridetrans.it/@Andres4NY/113626681357898120
Sadly I've only made 2 of them for the house (I need to buy more PC fans), but I still use these filters. Here's why.
Currently, the outside AQI in Forest Park near my house …
Blue 2 Trail Rises Up Hill From Shindagin Hollow Rd
#photo #photography #forest #wideangle
More Kampinos forest, today in the morning
#photography
Production of Intense Spin-Polarized Beams of Hydrogen Isotopes by Charge Transfer with High Density Raman-Pumped Alkali-Metal Vapors
Thad G. Walker, Cary B. Forest, Deniz D. Yavuz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16663
Looking at adding more games to https://warlock.nexus - which one should I build next?
American Truck Simulator
Arma 3
Arma Reforger
Assetto Corsa
DayZ
Icarus
Rust
Sons of the Forest
Squad
The Forest
Windrose
Why do people leave underwear in the forest? There must be a good reason, right? Right?!
Whoa this 1980 version of A Forest by The Cure played live in a forest is incredible. Never seen it before! Thx @rich-lem.bsky.social ! https://youtu.be/GdIBPAwM0Ug?si=TV6ICX0dFzuMWF5h
Whoa this 1980 version of A Forest by The Cure played live in a forest is incredible. Never seen it before! Thx @rich-lem.bsky.social ! https://youtu.be/GdIBPAwM0Ug?si=TV6ICX0dFzuMWF5h
Magic Moment (when the view finally opens up)
(On the way to Drachensee, October 2023)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Alps
U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy previously ran an aerial firefighting company. After joining Congress, he proposed ending Forest Service inspections of those aircraft.
The same month a draft of his plan to end Forest Service inspections leaked, an aircraft at his former company failed an inspection because of a crack in its wing.
Sheehy owned up to $15 million in stock in the company, Bridger Aerospace, when he launched his effort to end Forest Service inspections of such aircr…
#DavidCharvet #DavidHasselhoff
Season 6 Episode 20 "Forbidden Paradise: part 2"
#Baywatch
Have you been to Open-Topia yet?
You'll likely arrive there through Frustration Station, but you can use your arrow keys to explore fantastical spaces such as the Visionary Forest or Meet-Tropolis.
But beware of the Job Insecurity Dragon! 🐲 😱
Created at the #OpenScience Retreat #OSR26UK
Great, the forest fire piss filter is back.
England during the reign of Elizabeth I (~AD1600) was a dangerous time and place to write plays, such as Shakespeare’s “As You Like It”.
Better watch those metaphors. Public plays were studied closely for signs of treason.
Christopher Marlowe was arrested for atheism, a capital offense. Thomas Kyd was tortured on suspicion of treasonous activity. Ben Jonson was in dire trouble several times.
#History
"all booty calls happen in dunkeltaler forest"
Hammond Hill State Forest was a particularly attractive venue for me because it's close to home and I hike there all the time
#photo #photography #running
From my hike last Sunday.
This moment, when you turn around and see the summit that you're heading to for the first time and think "hm - still quite a bit to go"
#hiking #mountains #wandern
• salmon
• forest demons
• wolves that stalk the deadlands
• incest
• suicide
• a mysterious artefact called the Sampo, forged by a legendary blacksmith, which acts like an anchor for the universe
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #MidsummerDreaming
Hanna Tuulikki & Murmuration Number Seven Ensemble:
🎵 The forest answers in the way you call to it
#HannaTuulikki #MurmurationNumberSevenEnsemble
Not my field at all, but a very interesting and potentially controversial one.
By sheer chance 2 contrasting podcasts on the "wood wide web" hypothesis crossed my @… this week...
Science Fictions: Episode 91: Entangled Life and the wood wide web
https://sciencefictionspod.substack.com/p/episode-91-entangled-life-and-the
The World, the Universe and Us: The Wood Wide Web: The Forest Discovery That Sparked a Backlash on @…
Media file: https://tracking.swap.fm/track/YfZO4tERxneauNcW9Fgn/mgln.ai/e/211/traffic.megaphone.fm/ARML1134826042.mp3?updated=1777040556
Good luck to my half-sister Siobhan Wing (CON) who is running in the Waltham Forest local election for Hatch Lane & Highams Park North ward. #ukpol
Here's one more photo from last weekend's hike.
I'm just SOOOO happy that I was out and about last weekend. Today it's rainy and cold and the snow line dropped again. It could indeed be that this photo would now be covered in snow.
But last week, it was just a nice walk up there.
#hiking
On the way to @…, again with @…; day two.
#tdose
Intel unveils six Xeon 6 data center CPU SKUs, says the 6990E has 30% better single-thread performance and up to 30% more energy efficiency than AMD Epyc 9965 (Jake Roach/Tom's Hardware)
'Appalling' video captures driver wrecking ancient National Park forest - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/old-growth-forests-parks-trump/
The Trump Administration wants to eliminate decades-old rules that have prevented roads from being built in wilderness areas.
Would it make it easier to fight devastating wildfires, as some argue?
Or would it lead to renewed commercial logging in places like the Los Padres National Forest?
https://
Runner with goggles up in Hammond Hill State Forest
#photo #photography #running #sports
like paul simon, i too have attempted to mitigate my hearing loss by pointing a speaker directly at my head. enjoyed the "quiet celebration"/"7 psalms" at forest hills very much, though could've been... louder? was maybe most moved when the crowd covered the high note in "me & julio" #nyc
One of the typical scenes that we had throughout that day. The path wasn't always so well and broad like this. It often was narrow and more natural, but we also enjoyed walking along such sections.
The green was just amazing and calming. And I didn't even have to wait until there was noone else in the scene - it really isn't very frequented, so we could enjoy it all by our own
The rulebooks that decide how your national forests get run, who gets a grazing permit, how a timber sale gets reviewed for damage to water and wildlife, what deadline you have to object before a decision goes final, aren’t written by Congress.
They’re written inside the Forest Service, in a system of manuals and handbooks most people never see.
And for decades, the law has treated the important parts of that system as public business, something the agency can’t change without …
"The Great Lakes Fire History Digital Archive is a working, evolving digital archive that collects and makes accessible primary source documents pertaining to forest fires in the Great Lakes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."
"created and maintained by Dr. Hayden L. Nelson, a research historian at the #Minnesota Historical Society"
Had to bring car to maintenance and spontaneously decided to use the few hours of downtime for some exercise and go on a 28km cycle trip through the nearby rainy forests along the Lech...
'Wasserfall' #FotoVorschlag 'Waterfall'
Some locations came to my mind when I read the topic this morning and my wife immediately mentioned that location. This is probably one of my best photos.
The water flooded over the stairs on the right, creating a lot of little waterfalls. Luckily I did bring my tripod and a considerable amount of time so that I could tak…
Wachusett Reservoir is the largest hand-built dam in the world, assembled from great granite blocks
#photo #photography #dam
#footpathFriday , I'm back! here with a beautiful path that we walked last year in the #schwarzwald .
#eineSpurWilder
amusingly, my very 1st rock show in 1986 included both the monkees (nesmith-less) & herman's hermits (noone-less), though they did not jam a 20-minute i heard you looking > spiders. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc…
Wounds
(Some more entries from an ongoing series of photographs about the effects of climate change and increasing erosion in the Alps, here focused at very localized scales & occurrences to make them more concrete, communicable and less abstract...)
1) Exposed chunks of bedrock underneath the shrinking Langtauferer glacier
2) Heavily eroded forest in the Lechtal Alps
3) A dried out alpine lake in the Dolomites
4) Accumulated rock fall debris near Hahntennj…
El Bosque Petrificado Piedra Chamana
(The Petrified Forest Piedra Chamana)
has been recognized as a significant paleontological site by the Peruvian government since 1997.
The forest, situated near the remote village of Sexi in the Andes Mountains, contains a diverse array of fossilized woods and leaves buried by a volcanic eruption 39 million years ago.
As part of its mission, the National Park Service (NPS) strives to promote conservation of cultural and natural r…
Runner who came a long distance to run in the Thom B Trail Runs
#photo #photography #running #forest
'Touri-Hotspot' #FotoVorschlag
Here you can see two hot spots: The mountain from where the photo is taken is a very well known destination for quick hikes as it's well reachable from munich.
And also the lake down there: the far left-shore is also a very well known destination for recreation, bathing etc. In Summer, sometimes the road along the shore is closed as th…
Postglacial farming (2025)
(The last farm lands before the valley turns into a canyon and glacial landscape further up...)
#MountainMonday #MonochromeMonday #LandscapePhotography
Woman running in purple tank top in Hammond Hill State Forest
#photo #photography #sports #running
"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."
I stepped on my #MTB and suddenly found myself in the #mountains. I was thinking whether to go back down to …
Carl Franck, my physics prof back from the 1990s, running in Hammond Hill State Forest
#photo #photography #flrc #running
For #footpathFriday , I chose this photo from my recent blog post - and thus from my recent hike that I did. 🙂
Not the best photo I ever took, but I reminds me of a beatiful walk - even though my legs were tired right from the start. But going a bit slower fixed the issue.
#hiking…
@cdarwin@c.im
