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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 6h

#WaterYear 8 Hope is the thing with feathers…(Emily Dickinson) Today, World Wildlife Fund released the Living Planet Report 2026: the Science of Hope. Photo: little Wren as a ruby-slippered water bird taking flight from the Chagrin River (sometime around 2008)

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#WaterYear 7 Happy birthday to Yo-Yo Ma! (born this day in 1955) He has several beautiful recordings that celebrate rivers or water, including “The Falls” (an Ennio Morricone composition from “The Mission.”). Photo is Catarata San Fernando in Costa Rica. See next for water theme Yo-Yo Ma playlist

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#WaterYear 6 Dinkey Creek, California. Photo was taken during late June of 2017 and Dinkey Creek was roaring like all the streams and rivers of the Sierra Nevada due to the record snowmelt runoff from an enormous snowpack melting rapidly during the heat of June.

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#WaterYear 5 Today is #WorldHabitat Day celebrating the crucial importance of shelter & communities for people. Rivers greatly enhance life for people in cities, offering recreation & connection w/ nature even in crowded urban areas, such as the revitalized riverfront along the Rhône in Lyon France

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#WaterYear 4 Today is #WorldAnimalDay, which is celebrated each year on October 4, the feast day of Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals. On this World Animal Day i celebrate Birch, who we had to say goodbye to a few months ago after 15.5 wonderful years.

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#WaterYear 3 Happy weekend sunny hike along the Chagrin River

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#WaterYear 2 Deschutes River; the Benham Falls reach north of Sun River, OR On this day in 1968, President Johnson signed into law the US Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. The Deschutes was designated Wild and Scenic in October of 1988.

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#WaterYear 1 Happy New (Water) Year! Here in U.S., the new Water Year kicks off on Oct 1. To mark this moment, I’m starting a photo diary, each day posting one of my photos w/ a water theme along with a brief description of why that theme is important to people; see below for link to essay & song..

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

An essay celebrating the nondescript patch of woods where my kids learned to roam - & to connect to nature. Because to forge a bond w/ nature, kids don’t need it to be epic. They just need nature to be there, as a frequent and familiar part of their lives. jeffopperman.substack.com/p/the-ballad...

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

#WaterYear Beautiful spring day along the Chagrin River

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

#WaterYear Happy Mother's Day! along the Zambezi River...

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

maybe not the best use of my time, but I checked out their website. It's...interesting. See screen shot of their "trusted sponsors" below. It's a real who's who of...who? (lifted that line from Daily Show about the alternate Super Bowl halftime show)

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

#WaterYear - a photo my son took of the Colosseum during his gap year

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

If you build it, they will come (and by "it" I mean wetlands and floodplains and by "they" I mean multiple benefits for people) Field of Dreams...

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

For most sewer districts, if you asked about their influencer, they'd hear "influent sewer" and imagine water draining into their system during a rain. @neorsd.org has both of the homophones

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Steven Kwan spends his days watching nature shows

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Many of the world’s great wildlife migrations take place underwater & they are in serious trouble. New research released @ CMS COP15 reveals that migratory freshwater fish are among the most imperiled wildlife on Earth www.cms.int/news/un-vita... @cms.int @wwf-water.bsky.social @worldwildlife.org

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Today is International Puppy Day! And yesterday was #WorldWaterDay. #WaterYear celebrates puppies enjoying clean water. This photo was taken 15 years ago; Birch just celebrated her 15th birthday in February!!

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

#WaterYear In Comfort of Crows @margaretrenkl.bsky.social describes a vernal pool: “from the nearby path it looks as though someone has buried a large mirror in the sleeping woods…” (Carolina Beach State Park in NC)

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

#WaterYear loves this time of year, with everyone talking about Marsh Madness (thanks to @neorsd.org for the pun). One big difference is that with Marsh Madness, you really should avoid filling in pools (A marshy pool in the Great Plains of Montana)

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

#WaterYear Today is #WorldWildlifeDay - a good time to celebrate that wildlife also includes swimmers, e.g., Irrawaddy Dolphin, from Mekong (Laos) in 2013 (dolphins now gone from Laos). Rivers are also essential for wildlife that walks, for habitat & corridors (elephants along Zambezi) #WWD2026

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

#WaterYear On this day in 1968, Ohio became perhaps world’s first gov't to legislate system of protected rivers: Ohio Wild and Scenic Rivers Act preceded U.S. Wild & Scenic by 10 months. Little Miami River was first Grand River was the second protected river Luca kayaks on the Grand, summer 2022.

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

‪Tell me the truth...I'm ready. New IPBES report finds that $220 billion were directed to conservation & restoration of biodiversity in 2023... yet $7.3 trillion flowed toward subsidies that directly harm nature. IPBES Business & Biodiversity Assessment www.ipbes.net/business-imp... @ipbes.net

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

New report from IPBES finds that $220 billion were directed to conservation and restoration of biodiversity in 2023... yet $7.3 trillion flowed toward subsidies that directly harm nature. We need a better world. IPBES Business & Biodiversity Assessment; www.ipbes.net/business-imp... @ipbes.net

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

#WaterYear A few days ago was National Random Acts of Kindness Day...

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

#WaterYear There are some gulls on the Cuyahoga River

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

#WaterYear A major thaw after a month of cold…ice breaking up on the Chagrin River

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

In honor of Valentine's Day, a short romantic comedy for #NatureBasedSolutions (below).. and a blog post on Forbes on how maybe the best example of a large-scale, effective #NBS has been right before our eyes this whole time... www.forbes.com/sites/jeffop...

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

#WaterYear celebrates International Day of Women & Girls in Science! Wren studying benthic ecology, Chagrin River 2013 #WomenInScience2026

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

#WaterYear HAPPY WORLD WETLANDS DAY 💧🙌 Canoeing with the family through Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. #WorldWetlandDay

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Frozen #WaterYear Small stretch of flowing water on otherwise frozen Chagrin River, while snowshoeing.

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Frozen #WaterYear Snowshoeing on the frozen Chagrin River

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

#WaterYear The falls of the Chagrin in Chagrin Falls are nearly frozen

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

#WaterYear A swan in a small area of open water in a pond mostly covered by thin film of ice. Pond is in the park behind the Karlsruher Schloss (Karlsruhe Palace) in Karlsruhe, Germany.

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

#WaterYear I love the boardwalk at @audubon.org Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in SW Florida. Such a great way to experience a range of wetland habitats and to see wildlife close up

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

#WaterYear White ibis at @audubon.org Corkscrew Swamp near Naples, Florida. Took the photo with iPhone lined up with binoculars.

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

#WaterYear Alligator and Great Blue Heron at @audubon.org Corkscrew Swamp near Naples, Florida

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

#WaterYear The Pillar of History statue along the Miami River

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Looks like no white Christmas so we’ll settle for a white-ish December 23

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Well, well, well…how the turn tables

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

#WaterYear at the Watergate Sunrise over the Potomac River

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

#WaterYear With nearly two feet of snow on the ground and temperatures in single digits, it certainly feels like winter...these photos of sycamores and maples along the Chagrin River are from one month ago when Fall was lingering well into November...

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Steven Kwan is helping me compile a list of suspects of who pulled down the map in my office. The first name he suggested was the dog.

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

#WaterYear View of the Tanaro River from the window of a medieval tower in Barbaresco, Italy

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

#WaterYear “Water for the mill, wine for the stomach” Spotted in a cafe in Milan. A more whimsical and constructive Italian version of the old adage “whiskeys for drinking and waters for fighting”.

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

#WaterYear One of the most dramatic locations for a cafe I’ve ever seen (look at bottom of photo), just a few tables perched over the cliff above the Tanaro River (trib to Po) in Barbaresco, Piedmont, Italy. Photo from medieval tower that stands over the town).

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