"The harsh reality of boom-and-bust gold mining becomes clear: The brief boom benefited only a fortunate few. The bust was for everyone else."

NEW on Longreads: An excerpt from Josh Jackson's new book, THE ENDURING WILD, out on June 24 from Heyday Books:

https://longreads.com/2025/06/12/blm-land-enduring-wild-josh-jackson/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Mörfelden, Germany

3x 24mm (FF eq.) images stitched together for wide effect

More about me & prints:
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#Tree #Forest #Nature #Germany #Oak #Ancient #Green #Wilderness #Light #Tranquility

Painting on paper, 20 x 20 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
#kunst #contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #analogArt #painting #rubberStamp #reliefPrinting #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #humanRights #humanDignity #Нетвойны #owls #wisdom #nature #biology #wildlife #wilderness #scribbles #circles #target #focus

Antarctica, East Antarctic Ice Sheet

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Aperture: f/9
Shutter Speed: 1/500 sec
ISO: 100

The #Trump administration is moving to strip federal protections for millions of acres of #Alaska 's pristine wilderness to allow oil #drilling and #mining in one of the nation's last untouched regions.

While touring an oil field near the #ArcticOcean, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and EPA head Lee Zeldin praised Trump's push to expand #oil and #gas drilling, mining and #logging in Alaska,

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The #Trump admin plans to eliminate federal protections that ban #drilling & #mining in millions of acres of pristine #Alaska #wilderness. #Interior Secy #DougBurgum said the #Biden admin had exceeded its authority in adding restrictions on more than half of a 23 million-acre area originally envisioned to supply fuel to the Navy in times of emergency.

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Climate #FossilFuels #PublicLands #LandConservation #wildlife #EnvironmentalLaw #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/climate/national-petroleum-reserve-alaska-trump-drilling.html?smid=url-share

What I enjoy about hiking is that panoramic view. You stand, as if at the top of the world, and survey what feels, at that moment, like your domain.

Under a big sky, everything else -- the everything else that too often fills your thoughts and makes up your worries -- feels very small and distant.

Grand Ronde River Gorge art print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/grand-ronde-river-gorge-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print

Northern Lake in Autumn

This oil painting is of a lake in autumn in the far north landscape of Alaska. Among the Brooks Range are mountains of the arctic wilderness under clouds. Spruce trees surround the water and cover the mountains, and the wild taiga foliage shows fall colors.

Fine art prints at:
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/northern-lake-in-autumn-ever-billotte.html

A little taste of the John Muir Wilderness.
#California #mountains #nature #wilderness #wildernessculture

Arctic Lake in Autumn: Watercolor

This is a wilderness painting from Alaska in autumn, above a lake in the mountains. It's a plein air watercolor landscape, depicting fall colors in the Brooks Range. It was painted on site, on a ridge between Glacier Lake and Big Lake in the arctic.

Fine art prints at:
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/arctic-lake-in-autumn-watercolor-ever-billotte.html