#rockies — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #rockies, aggregated by home.social.
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Last time out was a loss for #Diamondbacks Merrill Kelly. It came last Wednesday vs #Rockies. Allowed 6 runs on 6 hits with 3 walks and 2 strikeouts over 5.0 IP. Threw 71 pitches, 42 for strikes (59.2%).
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BREAKING NEWS🚨 - Press release from the #CenterForBiologicalDiversity
#Trump Moves to Kill #RoadlessRule in Biggest Assault on #ForestProtections in U.S. History
For Immediate Release, August 18, 2026
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration today proposed scrapping the country’s most significant tool for protecting national forests, a move that would open nearly 45 million acres of wild, unfragmented forest across 37 states to road construction, logging and other development.
“Trump is pushing for the largest evisceration of public lands protection in American history and against what Americans want,” said Randi Spivak, public lands policy director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “These are some of the last truly wild forests left in the country, places that shelter endangered wildlife and protect our drinking water. Once you start bulldozing roads for commercial logging and industrial development, there’s no getting them back. Americans love their public lands and want them protected. We’re going to fight like hell to safeguard these wild places for future generations.”
Today’s announcement from the U.S. Agriculture Department will be followed by Wednesday’s release of the draft environmental analysis, giving the public until Sept. 21 to comment on the proposed Roadless Rule recission.
Here are statements from the Center’s regional experts on risks to roadless forests and wildlife across the country:
Northern #Rockies
“Roadless forests are lifelines for grizzly bears and Canada lynx across the northern Rockies,” said Kristine Akland, Northern Rockies director. “Grizzlies need these areas to den and raise cubs and lynx populations are already declining as mature forest habitat disappears. Building roads and allowing logging in these wild areas would make an already difficult situation for these species even worse. People across the region know how vital these intact forests are for wildlife, clean water and recreation, and they overwhelmingly oppose dismantling the Roadless Rule.”
“We’ll fight Trump’s monstrous proposal to gut the Roadless Rule, which would be disastrous for the Tongass,” said Cooper Freeman, Alaska program director. “Punching roads through 9 million acres of intact temperate rainforest would destroy world-class salmon streams. It would open the door for corporations to clearcut irreplaceable, centuries-old Sitka spruce for export overseas. Alaska’s wild places deserve better.”
Southwest
“Roadless forests are where wildlife live,” said Taylor McKinnon, Southwest director. “They’re home to jaguars, Mexican spotted owls, and ocelots, some of the most iconic animals on the continent. Plowing roads into their habitat will bring human-caused wildfires and disturbances that they don’t need and can’t afford. We’ve fought for years to protect the forests and animals of the Southwest and there’s no way we’re giving up now.”
"Roadless areas protect the most beloved and endangered species in the Southeast,” said Will Harlan, Southeast program director. “The South Mills River harbors the country’s strongest hellbender population. Snowbird and Tusquitee Bald shelter endangered Carolina northern flying squirrels, gray bats and longsolid mussel. These forests sustain local economies, protect iconic recreation spots like the Appalachian Trail and safeguard drinking water for millions of people in Charlotte, Atlanta and beyond. Handing them over to loggers and construction crews isn’t sound policy, it’s a tragedy."
Why we need the Roadless Rule:
- Forests free of roads and logging provide crucial and connected habitat for animals and plants, protecting them from noise, pollution and other human-caused harms.
- The forests at risk — from Oregon to North Carolina — are home to scores of threatened and endangered species, including American wolverines, Canada lynx, grizzly bears and northern spotted owls. Rescinding the Roadless Rule would not only push these species closer to extinction but threaten countless others, including Alexander Archipelago wolves and Queen Charlotte goshawks.
- More than 370,000 miles of roads already fragment U.S. national forests, with a maintenance backlog in the billions of dollars. Most wildfires are human caused and occur near roads, with a decades-long, nationwide study finding human-caused wildfires are four times more likely in areas with roads than in roadless forests.
- National forests are the headwaters of many of the country’s major rivers and the largest source of municipal water supplies, serving more than 60 million people in 33 states. The Roadless Rule protects rivers and streams from roads, a major source of water pollution because of erosion and sediment.
#USPol #ProtectTheForest #NationalForests #WildlifeCorridors #WildlifeHabitat #EndangeredSpecies #Greed #CorporateColonialism #StolenLand #LandBack #ForestsAreLife #WaterIsLife
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Happy Monday from Japan, and a great start into the new week to you all! ✨
Today's new image on my website is a scene from the boat concession at Moraine Lake in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
URL: https://www.norbertwoehnl.com/3mtahda5ad22w
#photography #naturephotography #fotografie #naturfotografie #canada #banff #rockies #website #photoblog #atprotocol #photographersofmastodon
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Keaton Winn came in to play football, but this is baseball, and more runs have scored.
It's 13-7 Rockies in the top of the 7th, they are still batting with 2 outs and a runner on 1st, and I'm done with this game.
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Reiver Sanmartin gave up a 2-run single, then got the 3rd out.
10-7 Rockies now. JT Brubaker, who was wild (though a ball 4 should have been a strike - no challenge), would have been better off staying home and knitting.
Let's see how the Giants are responding. They haven't, yet. The 6th inning ended quietly.
Rockies 10 Giants 7
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JT Brubaker served up a wild pitch, an 88.6 MPH changeup in the dirt, scoring Zac Veen, evening the game at 7. Jordan Beck advanced to 3rd on the play. He then walked Adael Amador, and completely lost the strike zone, walking Jake McCarthy to load the bases.
The idiotic rule that relief pitchers must face 3 batters should be burned to ashes. MLB's rule tinkering is creating a game where the haves gain a distinct advantage over the have-nots, which is so completely American, of course MLB is there.
Brubaker than hit Cole Carigg with a pitch. The go-ahead run strolled home from 3rd. Bases still loaded. Still 2 outs, as was the case when this [expletive deleted] relief [expletive deleted] pitcher took the [expletive deleted] mound.
Reiver Sanmartin is coming in to try to hold it to a 1-run deficit in the 6th.
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With 2 outs and runners on 2nd and 3rd, the Giants pulled Sam Hentges. JT Brukaker has entered the chat.
Still 7-6 Giants in the top of the 6th.
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In the top of the 5th, the Rockies scored twice to tie the score at 6.
In the bottom half of the inning, the Giants scored a run in the usual way. Walk. Fly out. HBP. Single. Strike out. BB.
7-6 Giants in the 6th.
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Turner Hill singled home Osleivis Basabe, who had earlier doubled, and moved to 3rd on a ground out in the bottom of the 3rd. Giants batting in the 4th.
6-4 Giants
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I was taking care of chores, so only popping in and out of the game.
I noticed the Giants were up 1-0 in the top of the 2nd, thanks to a Rafael Devers 2B and a Bryce Eldridge RBI 1B.
Then I saw they were behind, 4-1 in the top of the 2nd. Adael Amador had hit a 3-run HR. Then I saw they were ahead, 5-4, in the bottom half of the inning, thanks, in part, to a Devers HR.
Giants batting in the 3rd.
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1B 1B BB SF HBP FC (home) 1B 2B WP 1B 1B Ground Out at 1B.
7-1 Giants after 4, now heading to the Giants' half of the 5th.
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After 3 at Oracle Park, the game is tied at 1. Drew Gilbert homered for the Giants in the bottom of the 3rd to tie the score.
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#RedSox Payton Tolle set a career-high with 14 strikeouts last Friday at #Athletics. Was most SO by a Sox starter since Chris Sale's 17 on May 14, 2019 at #Rockies, the most by a BOS starter not yet 24 years old since Roger Clemens had 20 SO on April 29, 1986 vs #Mariners.
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Are Colorado Moose Invasive? New Research Says NO
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https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2026/06/18/are-colorado-moose-invasive-new-research-says-no <-- shared technical article
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https://youtu.be/orpLT22YnKQ?si=aThWWjMhKOUELwuv <-- shared overview video
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https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.70279 <-- shared paper
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“The modern Colorado moose is often considered just that: modern - brought to the state by wildlife officials in the late 1970s, preceded by very occasional reports of moose sightings in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Since being translocated to Colorado, these charismatic megafauna have been a source of both fascination and concern. In Rocky Mountain National Park [RMNP], where moose populations have thrived, ecosystems have been changing, and moose-associated impacts have sparked renewed conversations about managing an animal labeled “non-native.”
However, newly published research [link above] by an interdisciplinary team of scientists, archivists and Tribal cultural heritage leaders shows that the “non-native” label is inaccurate. They present evidence demonstrating that moose have been in Colorado for at least centuries and likely longer.
The researchers analyzed newspaper archives, archaeological site reports, scientific journals, museum collections and photo archives to understand where and when moose were present in Colorado prior to the mid-1900s. Perhaps most importantly, notes lead author William Taylor, a University of Colorado Boulder associate professor of anthropology and CU Museum curator of archaeology, the scholars sought Indigenous histories, and in doing so found evidence of moose being well known and deeply integrated into traditional knowledge of Native people in the southern Rockies.
Crystal C’Bearing, a study co-author and Northern Arapaho Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, notes that among the Northern Arapaho, "the moose is considered a valued commodity among the Tribe.” She adds that societies within the Northern Arapaho "utilize many animals, including moose, in their clothing, society items and regalia. This tradition continues today."
The scholarly approach of joining Indigenous knowledge with historical accounts, archaeology and paleontology, "shows the power of multiple independent lines of evidence converging on the conclusion that moose were part of southern Rocky Mountain ecosystems long before modern reintroductions," says study co-author Jonathan Dombrosky of Crow Canyon Archaeological Center and the University of Alabama. "More broadly, the study demonstrates how historical sciences can help us better understand the origins of modern ecosystems and make more informed decisions about their future…"
#moose #populations #Colorado #USA #native #invasive #introduced #nonnative #translocated #megafauna #herbivore #ungulate #impacts #ecosystems #environment #vegetation #native #indigenous #tribal #FirstNation #archaeology #paleontology #symbology #reporting #historicalscience #history #RockyMountain #Rockies #regional #prehistory #Holocene #biogeography #archaeozoological #modern #premodern #management #archivists -
Happy weekend from Tokyo! 😃
Today’s new image on my website was taken at Moraine Lake in the Canadian Rockies, one of the most spectacularly beautiful places I saw in my life.
URL: https://www.norbertwoehnl.com/3msjskuzsak2r
#photography #naturephotography #fotografie #naturfotografie #canada #banff #rockies #photographersofmastodon
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#RedSox Wilyer Abreu's 2nd home run would have left 28 of the 30 #MLB ballparks (all but #Diamondbacks Chase Field and #Rockies Coors Field).