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07/27/2025

07/12/2025

https://www.upworthy.com/beavers-were-brought-to-the-desert-to-save-a-dying-river-6-years-later-here-are-the-results

​Their engineering feats are pretty dam incredible.

07/01/2025

It checks.

06/29/2025

06/28/2025

Ain't that the truth. Where's me looking like a bulldog or Sharpei?

06/15/2025

She lost her baby this morning.

He was stillborn, with a huge bruise that almost covered his entire head. How did this happen? Because this sweet, innocent mother became lost inside a truck stop during a rain storm, and was then hit with a broom by an ignorant person.

We drove two hours to rescue her. She was in a lot of pain, likely from a back injury. In arrival she received pain medication and fluids. Thankfully she was also able to eat a little last evening, but this morning it was clear she would lose her baby, who was perfect except for the massive bruise on his head.

She is lost without her baby, and we will be lost without bats. We let the broom wielding person know this, and he was sorry for his actions.

With luck, this little mom will heal and can be released to try again next summer. In the meantime, she will receive the best care we can give her. If her back injury prevents her from flying again, we will take care of her for life, which could be as long as 20 years. Thanks to you, our caring supporters, we are able to do just that.

06/14/2025

Sad. I so love fireflies.

We might be witnessing the twilight of fireflies—one of the last generations to drift through the summer dark like living embers. But this isn't nature’s doing. It’s ours.

Fireflies are vanishing fast. Across North America, over 130 species are now at risk. Rare ones like the amber comet firefly are hanging by a thread in just a few patches of Texas. It’s not just one threat—it’s a perfect storm. Expanding cities pave over forests and wetlands. Backyard floodlights blind their courtship signals. Pesticides poison the soil they breed in. And climate change scrambles their life cycles with heatwaves and droughts.

The amber comet, once thought extinct since the 1940s, was rediscovered recently—but only in scattered wet grasslands. It flashes like a slow-motion meteor across the night. A signal in the dark. A warning.

Fireflies are more than nostalgia. They’re indicators—when they disappear, it’s a red flag for the whole ecosystem. Their larvae eat snails and pests. They need moist soil, native plants, dark skies. When their world collapses, it’s a sign that frogs, birds, and bees are next.

But the spark isn’t gone yet.

There’s still time to reverse this. Cut the glare—use less outdoor light, install motion sensors, choose warmer bulbs. Skip the pesticides and let your yard go wild. Build patches of native plants, damp soil, and leafy undergrowth. Protect the shadows. Let nature breathe.

Join a citizen science group. Count fireflies. Map their glow. You’ll be doing more than watching insects—you’ll be protecting an ancient conversation between light and night.

Or we can keep doing what we’re doing. Keep building. Keep spraying. Keep lighting up the night until it goes quiet.

And fireflies become just another story we tell around the campfire.

06/14/2025

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