##USForestService
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chirp0403.bsky.social
They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. #USForestService
April 2, 2026 at 4:06 AM
mgwhiteley.bsky.social
Wind River Range, Wyoming #hiking #backpacking #wilderness #USforestservice #mountains #nature #landscape
April 21, 2026 at 2:37 PM
alaskapoet.bsky.social
Wilderness outhouses are the legacy my father left us. He was an expert outhouse builder for the US Forest Service. Peed in one today in his memory. 🌲 I also recently wrote a poem about these well-designed outhouses.

#USForestService #Alaska #Alaskan #wrangell
Outhouse surrounded by Southeast Alaskan forest. A black and white border collie poses in front of it.
May 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
grist.org
US Forest Service firings decimate already understaffed agency: ‘It’s catastrophic’

"We are losing an entire generation of talent and passion."

grist.org/politics/for...

#Climate #GreenSky #USForestService #Environment #Musk
US Forest Service firings decimate already understaffed agency: 'It's catastrophic'
The U.S. Forest Service stewards 193 million acres of public lands from Alaska to Florida. So why is it so overworked and understaffed?
grist.org
February 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
desertvulture.bsky.social
Your public lands are waiting for you. Mind the snakes; Its their world, too!
##USForestService
#userymountains
#altnationalparks
September 27, 2026 at 7:01 PM
whippingpost.bsky.social
Red-headed Woodpecker - Angelina National Forest 7/11/23

#birds #photography #nature #wildlife #USFS #USForestService #RedHeadedWoodpecker
February 2, 2025 at 1:53 AM
mgwhiteley.bsky.social
Lake Isabelle, Indian Peaks Wilderness an area managed and protected by the US Forest Service, what we are going. to lose under trump. #hiking #mountains #USforestservice #wilderness #nature #landscape
April 4, 2026 at 2:04 PM
desertvulture.bsky.social
We dont want our public lands sold and exploited! We are using them! Tonto National Forest; Arizona USA
#USForestService
#USDA
February 2, 2026 at 4:16 AM
rowicz.bsky.social
🌎ALL #Nature is amazing & priceless IF NOT human-caused events🌎
#NATUREisMyReligion
#USForestService
#U.S.ForestService
#Rainforest #Trees
#TreeClub #TreeSky
#ProtectForestNow 🌳
#Forest #Woods #Jungle

#BioDiversity
#ClimateCrisis
#ClimateJustice ⚖️
#ClimateEmergency
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
September 26, 2026 at 12:28 PM
parkwaysprojects.bsky.social
“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.” ≈ Haruki Murakami

Winds take the words #TomOgburn #photography #Skyart
#landscape #LandscapePhotography

#EastCoastKin 🦋 #NationalParks #USForestService
"Winds Take the Words" at the top of a few mountains in Stanley, Idaho (really, it's just one but whose counting) for we can all see as many mountains as we need from here. Two of many other prayer flags are whipping in the strong wind. A group of mountains in the Sawtooth Range are before you. I can't tell you the name of the mountains you see before you. Were I to be standing here in 1804 I would not know that either, but I'm sure my quill pen & ink bottle would be rushed to apply names to them. For that is what we do, for somewhere, at some point along the way, someone convinced some few of us that we had that inalienable right to do so. With great and reckless abandon even. But I can tell you that two sisters have a couple of businesses up there where winds might lift you and where Buddhist prayer flags fly. Where word are released & take flight on the winds. “We say that time passes, time goes by & time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.” ≈ James Gleick Regrets are delicate & dangerous things. Remorse is a good thing, for it allows us to grow beyond that person we were before whatever event caused the remorse, from whatever direction. It seems a loss of self & of time to harbor regrets. So, as I often do when reading, or just scanning quotes, I replace words. In this case, I would replace regrets with remorse. “After so many years even the fire of passion dies & with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust & ashes?” ≈ Umberto Eco “Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time.” ≈ William Shakespeare Notice that dreams were worked back into the stream. "Winds take the words," for our World needs all the kindness we can muster now.
March 17, 2025 at 5:44 AM
strandedupnorth.bsky.social
Boo L.L. Bean! I live in Ely, MN — a small town that exists because of wild places. The US Forest Service is being dismantled right now. Outdoor brands are being asked to take a stand.
Some showed up. Some didn't. www.saveusfs.org
#boycot #llbean #usforestservice #nationalparks
April 15, 2026 at 2:37 PM
paidprotester.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Under Trump, every square inch of public land must be opened up for oil and gas exploration, mining, and timber harvesting. Trump's billionaire buddies don't have to spend their money on the land to rape it. Great deal, eh?

#Trump #USForestService #RoadlessRule
Trump administration to rescind rule protecting old-growth forests
Almost 45m acres of national forests could be potentially opened to road construction, drilling and logging
www.theguardian.com
August 29, 2026 at 7:39 PM
rowicz.bsky.social
🌎ALL #Nature is amazing & priceless IF NOT human-caused events🌎
#NATUREisMyReligion
#USForestService
#U.S.ForestService
#Rain
#Birds
#Trees
#Hiking
#BioDiversity
#ClimateCrisis
#ClimateAction
#ClimateChange
#ClimateJustice ⚖️
#ClimateEmergency
#Forest #Ocean #Desert
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
May 8, 2026 at 12:44 PM
hopecs.bsky.social
Today’s rally to support our national parks. In the background, Pisgah burns. Can’t overstate the importance of the work our National Park and US Forest Service employees. Rally was at Moses Cone Manor House, one of my fav spots. #protectourparks #NationalParks #USForestService #PisgahNationalForest
People with signs and dogs gather on the grassy lawn in front of Moses Cone Manor House, its porch and columns visible. Blue sky and sweeping long-range view of the mountains with large plume of smoke drifting through left edge of photo
March 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
rowanauthor.bsky.social
Sometimes, a National Forest isn't your destination. Sometimes, when you're lucky, it's your scenic route home.

I wish everyone the joy of the jewel-bright beauty of the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest in autumn.

I hope you'll take the scenic route.

#SaveOurPublicLands
#USForestService #USDA
The atmosphere has the bright crispness of autumn air. Kathleen Rowan gazes between trees bright with golden leaves, across a cyan blue lake, to the forested hills of the opposite shore. She is a white woman with slightly wavy, long, brown hair wearing a medieval-inspired deep blue dress accented with a silver-colored metal belt. Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest, Georgia, southeastern USA Photo by Mr.Rowan
March 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
desertvulture.bsky.social
The Superstition Wilderness inside the Tonto National Forest; Arizona USA. Galaxy S24 + Snapseed.
#ForestFriday
#USForestService
#USDA
March 27, 2026 at 4:27 PM
rowicz.bsky.social
🌎ALL #Nature is amazing & priceless IF NOT human-caused events🌎
#NATUREisMyReligion
#USForestService
#U.S.ForestService
#Rainforest #Trees
#TreeClub #TreeSky
#ProtectForestNow 🌳
#Forest #Woods #Jungle

#BioDiversity
#ClimateCrisis
#ClimateJustice ⚖️
#ClimateEmergency
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
September 26, 2026 at 12:24 PM
rowicz.bsky.social
🌎ALL #Nature is amazing & priceless IF NOT human-caused events🌎
#NATUREisMyReligion
#USForestService
#U.S.ForestService
#Rainforest #Trees
#TreeClub #TreeSky
#ProtectForestNow 🌳
#Forest #Woods #Jungle

#BioDiversity
#ClimateCrisis
#ClimateJustice ⚖️
#ClimateEmergency
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
September 26, 2026 at 12:24 PM
desertvulture.bsky.social
The Goldfield Mountains; Tonto National Forest, Arizona USA. Galaxy S24 + Snapseed.
#ForestFriday
#USForestService
February 20, 2026 at 2:44 PM
desertvulture.bsky.social
Canyon Lake from the Boulder Canyon Trail, Tonto National Forest; Arizona USA. The Salt River was was dammed at this canyon in 1924 to provide hydroelectric power. Some people believe the lost Peralta gold mine is at the bottom. Galaxy S24 + Snapseed.
#USForestService
#USDA
#forestfriday
February 6, 2026 at 5:21 PM
indyinin.bsky.social
Taylor Creek Visitor Center, Lake Tahoe, California.

#California
#LakeTahoe
#TaylorCreek
#SierraNevada
#LandscapePhotography
#Photography
#Nature
#USForestService
April 18, 2025 at 2:09 AM
mgwhiteley.bsky.social
Near Blue Lake, Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado another area protected and managed by the US Forest Service that we are bin danger of losing because of trump. #hiking #mountains #Colorado #wilderness #USForestService #nature #landscape
April 6, 2026 at 1:37 PM
desertvulture.bsky.social
Lush from Fall & Winter rain; lower La Barge Canyon with Battleship Mountain in the background. Superstition Wilderness; Tonto National Forest, Arizona USA. Galaxy S24 + Snapseed.
#ForestFriday
#USForestService
#USDA
February 6, 2026 at 2:23 PM
briscoe9.bsky.social
#GetOutside and enjoy our public lands while we still have them. This is #USForestService land in #Wyoming. #BlueSkyArtShow

#nature #naturephotography #PhotographersOfBluesky #landscape #LandscapePhotography #travel #travelphotography #photos #horse #horsebackriding
June 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
parkwaysprojects.bsky.social
A Slow Craze #TomOgburn #photography #landscape #ArtYear #landscapephotography #mobilephotography #EastCoastKin 🦋 #NationalParks #USForestService #shotoniphone

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Something new from a border region, of something very old. I'm at Walters Dam here, in Tennessee, one of the original TVA Dam Projects. The scene is an old road sign "SLOW," in the immediate foreground. It's probably one of the very first aluminum ready-made signs, possibly from the 1960's. The chrome yellow paint has faded to a very pale butter yellow. The paint has crazed mightily, separating in places a quarter of an inch apart. The old WPA built Walters Power House is in the background. A main electrical array, made of steel trussworks, recedes on the right. Above it all looms the lush green mountainside of the Great Smoky Mountains State Park.
March 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM