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@journowl

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Exec Director @goldenstsalmon and Founder @UrbanBirdfdn , former micro/molecular biologist. Saving Natural Resources. "Surely not everybody was kung fu fighting"

San Francisco Bay Area
Joined October 2008
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"I think that I am familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and bites you in the ass!" Matt Hooper (1975) 🦈
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M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-YIKES! Up close to an Alligator Gar at the St. Catharine’s Creek National Wildlife Refuge in Mississippi. Big ones can reach 8ft long and over 300 lbs #nature #fish #TwitterNatureCommunity
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Some reports say American Paddlefish have lived for 50 years+. A primitive & crazy cool #fish found in freshwater rivers & reservoirs - historically found from the Mississippi River basin to NY to MT & south to the Gulf of Mexico #wildlife #TwitterNatureCommunity #nature
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Monarch butterfly goes from tiny egg on milkweed leaf to beautiful adult in 60 seconds #nature #pollinators #TwitterNatureCommunity
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1 year
American avocets across the street from my house - mouth of the #Napa River entering San Pablo Bay. #birds #wildlife
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1 year
Salmon are a keystone species that people, #wildlife and entire ecosystems depend upon. And that's also why we were in DC this week - to safeguard and restore this incredible natural resource
@goldenstsalmon
Golden State Salmon Association
1 year
We're fighting in DC this week for the livelihoods of commercial & recreational #salmon fishermen, #fishing guides, tackle shops & communities across California who depend on the environmental protections that Valadao's legislation would eliminate.
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We’re continuing our endangered leatherback sea turtle hatchery project on a remote beach in Costa Rica for the upcoming nesting season. This newborn made its way to the ocean back in January 2022 #seaturtle #wildlife #conservation
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More than 400,000 fall-run Chinook #salmon released in the Sacramento River at Butte City on Saturday, March 23 - a site identified in our joint project with recent good return results. #fish #fishing #CAwater
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Elk stands motionless and silhouetted against stunning orange sky at National Bison Range, Montana. Incredible! #nature #wildlife #TwitterNatureCommunity
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An elusive American badger family…now that’s how you start a weekend! #wildlife #nature
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Now that's a finale! The famous Clark’s Grebe rushing ceremony at Bear River Refuge in Utah #wildlife #nature #BirdsofTwitter #birds
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Let the weekend festivities begin! Laysan Albatross courtship dance and vocals on Midway Island. Turn on that 🔊 credit usfws #wildlife #nature #BirdsofTwitter #birds
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When you gotta dance you gotta dance! #wildlife #nature #bison
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When you can’t see the forest for the trees, you climb a tree. Kodiac bear cub enjoying a treetop view #wildlife #nature #TwitterNatureCommunity
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11 months
Great Blue Heron perched on nest with 3 chicks. I thought there was going to be some feeding but maybe it was just a yawn after all 😀 #BirdsofTwitter #TwitterNatureCommunity #nature #wildlife
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11 months
Thanks for being a steadfast voice for rivers & salmon restoration, Congressman @JaredHuffman @RepHuffman . Had a great & valuable time on the Klamath to see first-hand what we are protecting, together. And perhaps my ukulele skills will be good enough to jump in the next round…
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5 months
Threatened spring-run #salmon totaled an unbelievably low return of 1,479 in 2023 on the upper Sac River. Only 106 were wild spawning fish. In a water diversion perspective, this is a drop from over 20,000 spring-run salmon at the start of the spawning season just 2 years ago.
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Peregrine falcon dive bombs snowy owl! 😮 #birds #nature #owls
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There's no stopping that swagger when you’ve caught a #salmon ! #fishing #nature #TwitterNatureCommunity #HappyThanksgiving
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10 months
It’s October and that means snow geese will start migrating through California. A quick video to get you in the thunderous snow geese mood before they arrive. Or maybe a chance for stupid bird humor: a blizzard of snow geese 😂 #nature #birdsoftwitter #wildlife
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Hello there... #birds
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1 year
Nothing distracts Otis while #salmon fishing…nothing! 🤣
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explore.org
1 year
A powerful current sweeps bear 230 down river and right by an unfazed King Otis.
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Get closer! Indiana Bats roosting in cave in Carter Caves State Park, KY. #nature #TwitterNatureCommunity
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2 years
So, I built a website and collated data across 50 states to help those who find sick or injured birds. . It will continue to evolve & improve. Save those 🐦
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11 months
When I get a chance to do field work it always reminds me how much time I spend indoors on a computer to save the outdoors. It’s simply rewarding to see and be surrounded by what we’re protecting. #salmon #conservation #rivers
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1 year
Day of Action at CA capitol yesterday. "President Trump & Gov. Newsom allowed #water users to divert the water #salmon need to survive. Gov. Newsom, please stop blocking new State Water Board protections needed to save fishing jobs and salmon runs," said Scott Artis, ed of
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1 year
Love that burrowing owl camouflage! #birds #owls #nature #burrowingowls
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2 months
Safely stopped highway traffic to rescue these 3 lost little ones dodging cars and running for their lives
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4 months
Don’t usually post about my dogs, but this begged to be shared. Maggie, our youngest German Shorthaired Pointer, found a book to chew while I was working. Couldn’t be a more appropriate way for this book to find its demise. 🤣
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Drift ice and eagles…not what I was expecting. Steller’s sea eagle, one of the largest raptors, gathering on sea ice near Rausu Fishing Port in Hokkaido, Japan. #birds #nature #TwitterNatureCommunity
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Casually watching Gru and his #minions swim by
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10 months
WOLVERINES!!
@USFWSPacific
USFWS Pacific
10 months
Can you spot the North American wolverine? This rare sighting happened earlier this month on the Middle Fork Salmon River in central Idaho. Video: M. Knutson
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We're raising the alarm! Since December 1, 2023, it is estimated that the Central Valley Project and State Water Project pumps together have killed approximately 3,796 wild and hatchery steelhead as they migrate through the Delta #fish @goldenstsalmon
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4 months
State/Fed agencies must take immediate action to stop the killing of thousands of Chinook #Salmon and Steelhead at water export pumps in the Delta. This is the 2nd time we’ve had to take action in 2024 because of increased fish kills. #CAwater
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4 months
“No burrowing owl surveys. Not even an eviction,” he said. “Just tractors that leveled the habitat with all burrowing owl burrows destroyed.” #burrowingowl #birds @SFGate @byabartlett
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2 years
Has always been one of my favorite burrowing owl photos - those incredible yellow eyes! #TwitterNatureCommunity #wildlifephotography #birdphotography #birds
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1 year
Burrowing owl takes home design to the next level. Decorates front of burrow with bark, wood, corn cob, apple core, dung, snail shells and more. #homedesign #nature #birds #owls #wildlife #burrowingowl
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I joined Mokelumne, Feather, and Nimbus fish hatchery staff for a June release of more than 665,000 fall-run baby #salmon at Mare Island in Vallejo. THANKS all!
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Morning on the mouth of the Klamath River #spectacular
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Crow parents sound the alarm & mobilize an entire flock army to save a young crow not yet able to fly. Sound up and wait for the end! #birds #birdrescue #wildlife #birding
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Hey @politico and @wuerker - I have a contender for the nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics. #salmon #CAwater
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Breaking: 830,000 Calif fall-run Chinook #salmon fry released into Fall Creek, a tributary of the Klamath River above Iron Gate Dam, are presumed to have died due to gas bubble disease
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Our #salmon need cold #water ! Often the news leaves out the CRITICAL need for salmon friendly temperatures & flows in rivers. Glad to see my point was not left out in yesterday's CBS story.
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3 months
Kingfisher…as fast as lightning! #nature #birds
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“The Delta Tunnel is one of the biggest #salmon -killing projects in state history, and Governor Newsom has his hand directly on the spigot” #CAwater
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2 years
Waiting for rain…and return & spawning of critically #endangered Central California Coast coho #salmon . We removed a small dam, completed floodplain restoration, installed a pedestrian bridge & planted local ecotype native plants/trees from our nursery. Then (2021)/now (2022)
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1 year
Thanks to all those who just don���t walk by. Reminds me of my big buddy, Banjo. Picked up by animal control, starving and injured. Deemed “not adoptable” as he required immediate eye surgery, he was going to be euthanized in 48 hrs…500-mile roundtrip, eye surgery the next day,
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Hakan Kapucu
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Some hands reach out for kindness, & some cry until feeling it. But love answers all as it's the most transformational healing power. 🎥Carol Midori
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This initial scene with eagle in the foreground and waves and snow in background… #spectacular
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Nature
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A bald eagle's white head may make it look bald, but the name actually comes from an old English word, "balde," meaning white-headed. #NaturePBS
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Coyotes, another favorite of mine. No wonder they are known as song dogs. #TwitterNatureCommunity #nature @ProjectCoyote
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Lunchtime! USFWS catches osprey feeding its chick #raptors #BirdsofTwitter #TwitterNatureCommunity
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1 year
Creating smiles and future ocean, watershed and salmon fishery stewards. We partnered with the SF Salesian Boys & Girls Club to get kids on boats, #fishing , experiencing the SF Bay and learning about natural resources.
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I need your help. We need @CAgovernor to protect #water resources for communities, fish and #environment ! Our coalition of tribes & orgs are taking the fight to the capitol. If you're in CA, please sign our #petition !
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💯THIS👉“The relationship between [water] flow & temperature cannot be overstated,” testified Regina Chichizola regarding the protection of #salmon populations, @SaveCaliSalmon , at today’s CA State Water Resources Control Board Workshop on Bay-Delta Voluntary Agreements. @CAwater
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Critically endangered leatherback #seaturtle hatchery project in Eastern El Salvador. We're supporting this work to protect nests/eggs from poachers and save this species.
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Yep, that’s about right. As soon as everyone is watching…
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Cutting flows during #salmon outmigration is not how we get healthy runs! Shasta’s outflow has been cut unnaturally from 17,000+ cfs to 4,200 cfs in mere days. Dramatic reductions trap baby salmon in pools who need rescuing #CAwater
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When you come home with only one piece of candy... #nature #TwitterNatureCommunity #BirdsofTwitter #birds
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4 months
Was at Mare Island today and stumbled upon Corlee, a #mermaid sculpture created for the Duke and Duchess of Chatsworth in Derbyshire, England as part of the Radical Horizons Exhibit: The #Art of Burning Man in 2022.
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When it’s hot in Napa and wine won’t properly cool, there’s only one solution - visit the local tiki bar and order a “Maximum Aloha!” #BeatTheHeat #napa
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It’s just not a proper Saturday date night unless you’re joined by 420,000 baby #salmon beginning their #ocean journey at Fort Baker Golden Gate National Recreation Area in Sausalito
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Belugas and narwhals...love the animal kingdom community
@pewenvironment
Pew Environment
6 years
Look closely: The darker whale here has the tell-tale tusk of a narwhal—recently “adopted” by these belugas in Canada. See full video, story: @BaleineMagazine . Video courtesy Group for Research and Education on Marine Mammals (GREMM)
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In 2010 I created my 1st animation while fighting to protect a colony of #burrowingowls – the message still holds up, animation not so much😂. Those owls were the catalyst that changed my life and career path. It’s 13 years later & I’m still saving #owls and #wildlife #nostalgia
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Thanks to @ASAFishing for leading this letter we joined them on in response to the need for development of chemical alternatives to 6PPD, an anti-degradant universally used to improve tire durability but found to induce rapid mortality in Coho #salmon
@goldenstsalmon
Golden State Salmon Association
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In response to a House Appropriations Subcommittee letter, language to reduce #fish toxicity & direct EPA to partner w/ industry on identifying environmentally-friendly alternatives was successfully included in 2024 House Interior report. #salmon
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Always look both ways for Tippi Hedren before you toss the peanuts #Birds
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Silhouetted heron makes fishing look so easy #BirdsofTwitter #TwitterNatureCommunity #wildlife
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S Artis: "If the SFPUC’s goal is to suck the life out of the last 10% of Tuolumne River’s surviving #salmon population, then congrats because they are making that a reality" @TuolumneRiver @SaveCaliSalmon @RestoretheDelta @goldenstsalmon @SierraClubCA @SFClimateWeek @SFBaykeeper
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And just like that…critical flows needed right now by juvenile #salmon continue to get reduced out of Shasta and Keswick dams. #CAwater
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Fixed it! They are threatened by so many things from CA’s water policies that reduce rivers to a trickle and raise water temps to levels that kill #salmon eggs. Secretary Crowfoot said, “They [salmon] are threatened by so many things including pollution.”
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2 years
The second photo in the primates in #captivity piece I worked on that is an emotional shot to the heart. There’s so much that could be said of this imagery but I think it speaks for itself…if only someone spoke for this gorilla.
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There’s litigation over the Sites CEQA & @goldenstsalmon & many partners are involved w/ Sites water rights protest at the Water Board. We have a tough fight with this #salmon killing project but it’s not over! #CAwater Per the Mercury News: Biden signed a package of bills that
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Primates in #captivity piece I worked on and continue to be haunted by this moment. And I remain #heartbroken by the context that proceeded it. The eyes tell the story this chimpanzee… @peta
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“We’re missing the big picture, and the big picture is the flows and the temperature to save fish,” said Scott Artis. “California’s water policies really are just one devastating blow after the other…” #salmon #CAwater
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6 years
I attended a meeting today with our @SeaTurtles_org Gulf of Mexico team regarding microplastics...it’s a stunning and pervasive problem we are working on - stating the obvious, #plasticpollution is something that affects everyone & requires the help of everyone #marinedebris
@LegoLostAtSea
Lego Lost At Sea
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As a child, I searched for sea glass and shells on Cornish beaches. How times have changed. Don't miss #DrowningInPlastic tonight at 8.30pm on @BBCOne with @lizbonnin #marinedebris #plasticpollution
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Whooo do you love? My favorite birds…pair of Burrowing Owls at their burrow. #nature #TwitterNatureCommunity #HappyValentinesday2024 #BirdsofTwitter #birds
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Love the Arctic Grayling’s dorsal fin! It’s a member of the #salmon family. #Alaska #nature #fish #TwitterNatureCommunity
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3 months
SFPUC “could take a more fish-friendly approach, releasing more water through O’Shaughnessy Dam into the Tuolumne River while still providing adequate supplies for customers," said Peter Drekmeier @TuolumneRiver
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A different perspective with the #mermaid tail (sculpture at Mare Island). The details were spectacular!
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8 years
It's time to protect Florida's burrowing owls!
@urbanbirdfdn
Urban Bird Foundation
8 years
@UrbanBirdfdn supports agency recommendation to list Florida #burrowingowl as threatened
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6 years
Leatherback #seaturtles are crazy huge...what’s not to love! Definitely green w/ envy that my marine biologist colleague @CAVeelenturf gets to work with these incredible reptiles...all over the world #JEALOUSY
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Aftermath of spawning. Chinook #salmon on American River in December #TwitterNatureCommunity #nature
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5 months
Black-necked stilt baby has some legs on her. Cue the ZZ Top playlist! 🎶 #nature #TwitterNatureCommunity #birds
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3 months
Joined some great partners yesterday on the steps of San Francisco City Hall as we continue to fight for healthy rivers, people and #salmon @TuolumneRiver @SaveCaliSalmon @RestoretheDelta @goldenstsalmon @SierraClubCA @SFClimateWeek @SFBaykeeper
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10 months
Butte Creek is the California spring-run chinook #salmon stronghold. But pollution, hot #water temps and low flows are decimating this threatened salmon species. I 👏 this move but more actions are needed…years ago!
@goldenstsalmon
Golden State Salmon Association
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Butte Creek has been recommended for Wild and Scenic protection status. There is hope that this protection granted by the Bureau of Land Management will result in saving threatened #salmon by eliminating any building of dams near the watershed.
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Incredible reaction time as dolphin jets through school of #fish
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“The state’s salmon runs are already experiencing devastatingly low return numbers. This is evident by the closure of the fall-run salmon fishing season this year, which makes it essential to remove additional threats that can compound an already serious issue caused by the
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1 year
Wow! 😢
@US_Stormwatch
Colin McCarthy
1 year
New video from Front Street shows virtually all of downtown Lahaina has been burned down.
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Scott Artis
8 years
Good karma!
@HuijsmansTim
Tim Huijsmans
8 years
RT These guys stopped to help some #birds who got tangled in kite string.
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10 months
My op-ed was published today in @sacbee_news . "Low spring flows is a major cause of the #fishing shutdown. Raising Shasta Dam would represent another blow to the survival of #salmon runs..."
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2 years
Tis the #SeaTurtle season at our hatchery beach project! Video of the first green sea turtle of the nesting season laying eggs. And earlier that same day Olive Ridley turtles hatched.
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