I follow the blooms
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Seasonal Field Botanist
He/him
James ⛰️🌾🇵🇸
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Heart eyes tbh
NEW PREPRINT: You may recall Joshua trees started flowering fully four months early this year. Was that due to climate change? Well, @colincarlson.bsky.social and I called in Chris Callahan to formally test that hypothesis, and the answer is... it probably wasn't!
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A large part of that is the Castillejas and Bristle cones
Great Basin time 🥳
Love love love waking up to this creature hitting its head against my car so that I’ll feed him 🥰
Just can’t seem to stay away from Death Valley
Working with the most opinionated dichotomous key I’ve ever seen in an ecosystem I’ve never worked in at 9000 feet 😵💫
The Great Basin is growing on me tbh
Woke up to 20+ moths in the car this morning 😔
These 9k elevation hikes are kicking my ass oh my god