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Tallgrass Tony @tallgrasstony.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Familiar to the remnant bluff prairies. Timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) #herpetology #ecology #naturephotography #conservation #prairie #snake

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Tallgrass Tony @tallgrasstony.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Great plains lady's tresses (Spiranthes magnicamporum) #nativeplants #prairie

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Tallgrass Tony @tallgrasstony.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Large flower false foxglove (Aureolaria grandiflora)

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Tallgrass Tony @tallgrasstony.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

This high quality dolomite prairie remnant puts on quite the show in spring. #prairie #ecology #nativeplants #conservation

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Tallgrass Tony @tallgrasstony.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Padicularis Point Jackson County IA. Hemi-parasitic plants like wood betony (Pedicularis canadensis) are a component of old growth high quality prairies, oak savannas, and open oak woodlands. For Ecologists plants like wood betony, among others, serve as indicator species of a site's quality.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Federal scientists will stop updating the NOAA list of billion-dollar weather disasters. The list, which had grown rapidly in recent years, reflected both worsening extreme weather and expanding development nationwide.

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Tallgrass Tony @tallgrasstony.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Early spring eastern Iowa remnant dolomite prairie plants from the past few days. #prairie #conservation 🌎

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Tallgrass Tony @tallgrasstony.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica) #nativeplants 🌎

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Tallgrass Tony @tallgrasstony.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes (Antennaria plantaginifolia) #prairie #nativeplants 🌎

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Bernie showed up at Coachella!

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Right now, Booker is still at it. And you can watch: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

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Dan Carter @prairiebotanist.com · 25/03/2025

Regarding #prairie and prairie #fire in Iowa from "Journalism of Northwest Iowa" by Charles Aldrich in Annals of Iowa (can't find pub year, but Aldrich died in 1908...certainly well beyond copyright). Don't deride "calendar prairies." Prairie was blossoms after blossoms through the growing season.

I'll quote from the text: Then what myriads of prairie flowers we had in those days! They becan to come in early spring and they kept coming all the season through until frosts of autumn destroyed that last and most beautiful of all, the aster, ad the golden rod. The prevailing colors were white, purple, and yellow, though some of the phloxes presented tints of red."

"One of the most interesting fetures of the old times in our county was the regularly recurring autumnal prairie fires. Not more than twenty-four hours after the first hard, killing frost, great masses of smoke would be seen rising in almost every direction...and so the grass burned off each season juast as it hwas in the ancient times of Indian occupation."

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Tallgrass Tony @tallgrasstony.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Old friends are waking up. Snow trillium (Trillium nivale) #nativeplants #ecology 🌎

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

WTF?!? Elon Musk reposted this on X before quietly deleting it: “Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector employees did.”

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Elon Musk staffers are drawing six-figure government salaries funded by taxpayers.

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Tallgrass Tony @tallgrasstony.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Gratitude and reciprocity are the doorway to true abundance, not power, money, or fear. - Brian Gibbs @altnps.bsky.social

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Musk’s status as a “special government employee” limits him to 130 days in the executive branch. However, despite working daily—documented by his own X posts—they claim he only works one day a week, effectively stretching his limit to 130 weeks. This needs to be brought to Congress—please share.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

NOAA is an absolute mess, and it’ll be worse tomorrow. Please help us. There have already been over 1,000 terminations. It’s not just layoffs—Elon Musk and his staffers are trying to completely dismantle us. Today, there were tons of firings, and more are coming tomorrow.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

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Chris Jones @theswinerepublic.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Iowa DNR removes page about Natural Resources and Recreation Trust Fund www.iowadnr.gov/about-dnr/gr...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The DHS will use polygraphs to question employees about communications with the media or nonprofit organizations in an effort to root out members of the resistance.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Trump has granted a conflict of interest waiver for Musk. We’re eager to see if the administration will release it in line with their vow of transparency.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Elon Musk is in the Oval Office right now with Trump, and with Musk’s son X, ahead of a signing of executive orders related to Musk’s so-called cost-cutting initiative, DOGE.

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Dan Carter @prairiebotanist.com · 09/02/2025

#Prairie and #savanna people. The Prairie Enthusiasts' virtual conference is next week. Live sessions that are missed are recorded and can be viewed up to 90 days after the fact. #climate, research, stewardship, #indigenous persectives, #art, community theprairieenthusiasts.org/tpe-events/2...

Bur oak savanna on interlobate moraineal topography in SE WI.

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🦌 The Deer Whisperer 🦌 @thedeerwhisperer.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Some photos from across the country for the 50 States 50 State Capitols march today Feb 5 2025: I will add more photos from more cities as I come across them. (sorry, not able to credit photographers) Lansing MI Austin TX Denver CO Harrisburg PA

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Iowa Prairie Network @iowaprairienetwork.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Saturday February 15th the Iowa Prairie Network Winter Seminar will be held in Ames Iowa. Come share your love of prairie with professionals and enthusiasts alike🌎. Register at iowaprairienetwork.org #prairie #restorationecology #nativeplants

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Tallgrass Tony @tallgrasstony.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Pale False Foxglove (Agalinis skinneriana) a rare hemiparasitic plant found in dry rock prairies in my neck of the prairie 🌎 #prairie #ecology #restorationecology #conservation #nativeplants

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Chris Jones @theswinerepublic.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

“what about the drivers of cancer and other disease that result from the choices of others, especially those that choose their own economic well-being over the health of their neighbors? www.thegazette.com/guest-column...

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Opinion: Iowa ignores environmental cancer causes

Des Moines Water Works employee Bill Blubaugh collects a water sample from the Raccoon River, Thursday, June 3, 2021, in …

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Tallgrass Tony @tallgrasstony.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Hello prairie people. I hope you consider attending the Iowa Prairie Network Winter Seminar held on Saturday Feb 15th in Ames Iowa. The seminar has a great list of speakers and is free to attend. Register at iowaprairienetwork.org #prairie #conservation #restorationecology

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Tallgrass Tony @tallgrasstony.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Bringing it back to late summer and early fall with great plains ladies tresses (Spiranthes magnicamporum) 🌎 #prairie #nativeplants #conservation #restorationecology #pinkskyPost

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