This morning I was looking for something on an old hard drive and came across a folder full of wildlife camera videos from 2021 in the bosque in Albuquerque.
1.) I don't know why setting this video to this Stevie Wonder song makes me so flipping happy. But it does.
2) I left the audio on in one of the clips so you can hear the beaver pulling the branch through the brush. I love the little shoulder switch.
3) I did not find what I was looking for on that hard drive.
#riogrande #albuquerque #beaver #coyote
The Writer’s Journey: From Eco-Lament to Action with Laura Paskus – FEATURING A FULL DAY WITH ROBIN WALL KIMMERER – G26080504
Come write with me at Ghost Ranch in September. Link in my profile or copy and paste for more information: /program/g26080504/
Frankie is back for the spring 🐢 and I'm using kins* cuteness to remind people to please watch out for turtles this time of year whether you are driving, biking, plowing, whatever...💚
* not a typo, a pronoun
The Rio Grande in Albuquerque is going to start drying pretty soon.
Already, more than 35 miles are dry in the San Acacia reach and another ten miles are dry in the Isleta reach near Peralta.
This short video shows what it looked (and sounded!) like at about 100 cubic feet per second in Albuquerque this morning. I adored listening to all the yellow-breasted chats and warblers and so many others. And my heart breaks to think of how the drying affects all the birds and other wildlife that live in the river and the bosque.
Downstream, at the Central Bridge in Albuquerque the river is at only 43 cubic feet per second.
Read more at Substack.
ARTIST + WRITERS IN CONVERSATION 🗣️
In collaboration with the Santa Fe International Literary Festival (@sfinternationallitfest ), join us at the gallery for a talk between artist Jill O’Bryan (@jillobryan ) with poet Rick Barot (@rickbarot1 ) and author Laura Paskus (@laurapaskus ) about the unique ways in which art, nature, and poetry intersect.
🗓️ Thursday, May 14
⏰ 5 - 6pm
📍Pie Projects, 924B Shoofly Street, Santa Fe, NM
*This event is free admission with open seating, no rsvp required.
#pieprojects #jillobryan #rickbarot #laurapaskus #SFILF2026
For river ecosystems to survive dry times, they need their floods — and big, messy floodplains.
In a case study recently published in Hydrological Processes, co-authors Ellen Soules, Martha Cooper, and Laurel Saito demonstrate how channels formed during high flows on the Gila River connect native riparian vegetation to groundwater.
Currently The Nature Conservancy’s Freshwater Program Director for New Mexico, Cooper spent years living with her family at the Gila River Preserve and Lichty Ecological Research Center in the Cliff-Gila Valley, just downstream from where the river emerges from the Gila Wilderness.
“Science is an act of love,” Cooper says, recalling the years she and Soules spent thrashing across the river, transect by transect, measuring topography and vegetation changes, and learning about the riparian system’s complexity.
Read the rest at NewMexicoRiversRising.com (also linked in my profile)
#gilariver #climatechange #love #science #newmexico
I don't really like short story collections (please tell me a long, long story that I don't want to end, let it go on forever). But I love Louise Erdrich. And of course, now I love this collection of short stories.
(The stories I didn't think I would like ended up being my favorites. Also: one particular passage in "Domain" is such a dear reminder to love your corporeal body that it feels like the beginning of a new prayer every one can adopt and adapt.)
Anyone else read this yet?
