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Historic Entrance of Mammoth Cave.
(Please boost if you are in the US!)
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Do you agree that public lands need to stay just that: PUBLIC?
Then contact your reps & congressfolk now, because they are voting to start selling off public lands to the highest bidder.

At midnight on Tuesday, May 6, the House Natural Resources Committee passed legislation for around 460,000 acres of federal public land in Nevada and Utah to be transferred to local governments or sold to private entities. These are primarily National Forest and Bureau of Land Management lands.The amendment is part of a sweeping tax cut package. It omits public comment and environmental assessment, leaving the stakeholders, the American people, completely out of the process of how OUR land is managed. If it can happen in Utah and Nevada, it can happen anywhere.

Call or write to your House Representative and remind them that our public lands belong to the American people and they should be protected, not sold. Here is a suggested script:

"I am a constituent calling from (zip code). My name is _______. I am calling to urge (your Representative) to oppose the budget reconciliation bill provision authorizing the sale of public lands. Public lands should be protected and preserved, not sold off to fund tax breaks or for any reason. Public lands belong to the American people!"

(And yes, #LandBack would be better, but let's at least not fucking sell it to private interests!)

#cave#caves#forest

:boost_requested: Stickers are in! I designed this myself as a form of protest. These are quality vinyl decals meant to be quite water/weather resistant (so like, feel free to put on your vehicle, waterbottle, etc.) There is a hidden message, read alt text for clue.

For US mail, please send $3 to cover costs. For international mail, please send $4 to cover costs

But if you have extra...I would love to help good friends who are multiply marginalised pay rent this month, who are shy $1700 due in a few days. If you send extra, I will pass it all on.

paypal.me/sunguramy

eta: these are 3" diameter, I forgot to say the size, whoopsie!

#art#design#cave

Exploring the big 3 caves of the Sierra de Huetor. Fascinating 14km hiking route takes you to 3 impressive caves formed by karstic erosion in limestone rock. A mix of natural beauty, geology & a bit of spelunking

Cueva del Agua – underground stream and stunning rock formations

Cueva del Gato – named for its openings that let in light, accessible without headlamps

Cueva de los Mármoles – large chambers and historical significance (poss Roman burial site)

Got to do some biosurvey studies on a gorgeous property recently. It is nice to work with landowners who want to share their places, learn about the life and ecosystems they have, and work to properly maintain the ecology. Today they were also planting some native trees not seen around in recent years, and tackling invasive species. Caring for nature is bipartisan; keep fighting for our home, the Earth.

Almost five years of cave climate monitoring in Australia and New Zealand

It was back in 2020 and COVID lockdowns that ACKMA, the Australasian Cave and Karst Management Association, decided to lead a volunteer, citizen science project to measure the 'baseline cave climate'. That is, to collect data for the first time for tourist caves which were temporarily closed at the start of the pandemic. Move forward almost five years, and cave climate data is still being collected from some of the original participating caves....

andy-baker.org/2025/04/22/almo

Andy Baker · Almost five years of cave climate monitoring in Australia and New Zealand
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Historical holes: Beneath the surface, caves hold the key to Australia’s wildfire history

My colleague @michcampbell recently held a postdoctoral research grant from AINSE. They've just released this 2025 Research Spotlight for early career researcher awardees all about her fire research. I think this is nicely done. If you'd like to know how caves and cave stalagmites can be used to reconstruct records of past fires, here's the article

andy-baker.org/2025/04/22/hist

Andy Baker · Historical holes: Beneath the surface, caves hold the key to Australia’s wildfire history
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For everyone in the world outside the US starting up the isolation process...remember how well that worked in the 1930's. It left tens of millions to die, turning back refugees sent them to their deaths, and fascism still came for their countries anyway. Isolation & abandonment is not a great policy. The world is even more globalized now than it was 100 years ago. The faster we realize we can rise or fall together, the better off everyone will be.

Politics can be complicated, but empathy is not. Empathy demands that we look at what is going on in all oppressed nations and peoples, and bear witness. And no one with empathy can then refuse to help. This is why empathy is being made to be the enemy. This is why individualism is being touted.

So. Let's all climb out of this pit now, and together, as the people of the Earth.

#cave#caves#caving