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  1. Humans 'learning' what beavers 'knew'... πŸ™‚ πŸ™ƒ 🦫
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    Restoring Mountain Meadows
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    youtu.be/YkcwzknKto0?si=3lD5Ym <-- shared video
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    americanrivers.org/restoring-m <-- shared article
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    H/T #AmericanRivers
    β€œHow do we get from dry, degraded, and dewatered to lush, wet meadows that feed our precious rivers and support fish and wildlife? We have to get creative.
    [Their] restoration work with partners in Ackerson Meadow and Faith Valley Meadow show two very distinct approaches to achieving amazing results.
    [Their] new short film β€œRestoring Mountain Meadows” dives into our work to restore California’s iconic meadows! We’ll take you uphill into the Sierra Nevada and deep into the restoration work that is healing one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth…”
    #water #hydrology #mountainmeadows #restoration #beavers #ecology #conservation #environment #rivers #fish #wildlife #habitat #USWest #California #SierraNevada #rockies #biodiversity
    @AmericanRivers

  2. Humans 'learning' what beavers 'knew'... πŸ™‚ πŸ™ƒ 🦫
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    Restoring Mountain Meadows
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    youtu.be/YkcwzknKto0?si=3lD5Ym <-- shared video
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    americanrivers.org/restoring-m <-- shared article
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    H/T
    β€œHow do we get from dry, degraded, and dewatered to lush, wet meadows that feed our precious rivers and support fish and wildlife? We have to get creative.
    [Their] restoration work with partners in Ackerson Meadow and Faith Valley Meadow show two very distinct approaches to achieving amazing results.
    [Their] new short film β€œRestoring Mountain Meadows” dives into our work to restore California’s iconic meadows! We’ll take you uphill into the Sierra Nevada and deep into the restoration work that is healing one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth…”

    @AmericanRivers

  3. I guess it is #spring in #Denver 😒
    β€’ first lawn mow, good choice on the fescue to my other Β½ - especially with the ugly #water #summer we WILL have in the #USWest :baduk:
    β€’ one of the local #beekeepers put in a #bee #swarm #hive in the back of our yard, evidently it is β€˜that time of year’ πŸ™ƒ

  4. I guess it is in 😒
    β€’ first lawn mow, good choice on the fescue to my other Β½ - especially with the ugly we WILL have in the :baduk:
    β€’ one of the local put in a in the back of our yard, evidently it is β€˜that time of year’ πŸ™ƒ

  5. β€˜On A Whole Other Level’ - Rapid Snow Melt-Off In American West Stuns Scientists
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    Experts say brutal March heat has left critical snowpack at record-low levels – and key basins in uncharted territory
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    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a <-- shared media/technical article
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    nifc.gov/nicc-files/predictive <-- shared National Significant Wildland Fire Potential @ 04/01/26 (for the next four months)
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    [ extreme lack of snowfall already in the β€˜25/’26 US West winter to begin with, and now this… ☹ ]
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #weather #metrology #climatechange #extremeweather #snowpack #USWest #USA #winter #heat #melting #snowmelt #risk #hazard #water #hydrology #waterresources #watersecurity #agriculture #wildfire #risk #hazard #firerisk #watersupply #watershed #management #planning #Colorado #Utah #California #earthobservation
    @the Guardian | @nasa | @California Department of Water Resources

  6. β€˜On A Whole Other Level’ - Rapid Snow Melt-Off In American West Stuns Scientists
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    Experts say brutal March heat has left critical snowpack at record-low levels – and key basins in uncharted territory
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    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a <-- shared media/technical article
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    nifc.gov/nicc-files/predictive <-- shared National Significant Wildland Fire Potential @ 04/01/26 (for the next four months)
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    [ extreme lack of snowfall already in the β€˜25/’26 US West winter to begin with, and now this… ☹ ]

    @the Guardian | @nasa | @California Department of Water Resources

  7. Unravelling The Dance Of Earthquakes - Evidence Of Partial Synchronization Of The Northern San Andreas Fault And Cascadia Megathrust
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    doi.org/10.1130/GES02857.1 <-- shared paper
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    β€œPrevious paleoseismic work has suggested a possible stress triggering relationship between the Cascadia subduction zone and the northern San Andreas fault based on similar event timings. Turbidite successions correlated to both systems may support this hypothesis. Historic earthquakes in 1980 and 1992 in the Cascadia subduction zone and the 1906 earthquake on the northern San Andreas fault left turbidite records that are temporally well constrained by bomb-carbonβˆ’supported age-depth models..."
    #geology #USWest #Seattle #Washington #California #earthquake #engineeringeology #fault #faulting #SanAndreas #Cascadiasubductionzone #linked #Cascadia #research #sediment #sedimentology #Turbidite #paleoseismology #historic #spatial #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #model #modeling #stress #subduction #dating #radiocarbon #Holocene

  8. Unravelling The Dance Of Earthquakes - Evidence Of Partial Synchronization Of The Northern San Andreas Fault And Cascadia Megathrust
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    doi.org/10.1130/GES02857.1 <-- shared paper
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    β€œPrevious paleoseismic work has suggested a possible stress triggering relationship between the Cascadia subduction zone and the northern San Andreas fault based on similar event timings. Turbidite successions correlated to both systems may support this hypothesis. Historic earthquakes in 1980 and 1992 in the Cascadia subduction zone and the 1906 earthquake on the northern San Andreas fault left turbidite records that are temporally well constrained by bomb-carbonβˆ’supported age-depth models..."

  9. Thirsty For Power And Water, AI-Crunching Data Centers Sprout Across The West
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    andthewest.stanford.edu/2025/t <-- shared technical article
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    β€œWith promises of jobs and hopes for tax breaks, server farms are reshaping local grids, plumbing, and politics. Are they a boon for communities, or a burden?...”
    β€œβ€¦ β€œI consider data centers to be the tapeworms of the city.”
    ~ Lance Saleme, Santa Clara planning commission chair…”
    #mapping #spatial #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #power #energy #water #hydrology #waterresources #USWest #USA #datacenters #impact #resources #serverfarm #consumption #grid #utilities #research #AI #emissions #heat #cooling
    #StanfordUniversity

  10. Thirsty For Power And Water, AI-Crunching Data Centers Sprout Across The West
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    andthewest.stanford.edu/2025/t <-- shared technical article
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    β€œWith promises of jobs and hopes for tax breaks, server farms are reshaping local grids, plumbing, and politics. Are they a boon for communities, or a burden?...”
    β€œβ€¦ β€œI consider data centers to be the tapeworms of the city.”
    ~ Lance Saleme, Santa Clara planning commission chair…”

  11. U.S. Geological Survey Colorado River Basin Science and Technology Collaboration Meetings on Drought (2021) - Synthesis of Findings
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    pubs.usgs.gov/publication/cir1 <-- shared publication
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    USGS recent publication about the challenges and barriers land managers and scientists are working on to address the wicked problems of drought in the Colorado River Basin.
    #water #hydrology #drought #extremeweather #fedscience #Colorado #ColoradoRiver #ColoradoRiverBasin #watershed #waterresources #watersupply #climatechange ##landmanagers #management #planning #overuse #magicwater #humanimpacts #ecosystems #agriculture #farming #USWest #strategy #GIS #spatial #mapping #waterscience #interdisciplinary #research #adapation #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #stakeholder #engagement #cost #economics #coordination #future @USFS @USFS