Benji Backer

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@Chillindamos1 Yea what about a few weeks or a month ago in Arizona, Utah, and Colorado? What about all of the past few years? We need Canada to act, but we also need to act.

@BenjiBacker AQi out west btw, yeah same thing as Canads fs

Blaming Canada for wildfires is a half-baked scapegoat. YES, Canada needs to get its shit together on forest health. BUT, the U.S. has burned 3.6 million acres of forests this summer already (double what Canada's burned), and many of the fires right now are in Minnesota too.

@RodeoProfessor Yep…

@BenjiBacker Sure could use those 3,000 or so trail/road/timber/watershed crews laid off in Feb 25 right about now

Someday we’ll realize that if we don’t take care of our environment, it won’t take care of us

Could the Endangered Species Act be structured more effectively? Yes. But this is ABSOLUTELY the wrong decision. Recovering endangered species is good for our country. Weakening the policy that protects them — for developers to take advantage of — is not.

There are 2.4 million acres in central Idaho with no roads in or out. The Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness is the largest contiguous wilderness in the Lower 48. It's bigger than Yellowstone and Grand Teton combined. The only way in is on foot, horseback, boat, or small plane. In the middle of it is the Salmon River, which carves a canyon deeper than the Grand Canyon. The name comes from early boatmen who could ride the current down, but couldn't fight it back upstream. The Middle Fork has around 100 rapids in 100 miles. Natural hot springs sit along the riverbanks. Native cutthroat trout still swim in it, and they’re healthy enough that anglers travel from around the world to fish them. More than 2,500 miles of trails run through the wilderness. Elk, wolverines, black bears, mountain lions, and wolves all still move through the land the way they always have. In 1995, it became one of the first places in the country where wolves were reintroduced. Most Americans will never set foot here. Many don’t even know it exists. That doesn't make it any less worth keeping wild.

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@BartWinklerShow You mean Monday night Megill

Gonna fire up a post game soon, gotta watch whatever bullshit is about to happen on Monday Night Raw first

A heartbroken cowboy became America's greatest conservationist. Before he was president, Theodore Roosevelt was a grieving 25-year-old who came to the North Dakota Badlands to disappear. His wife and his mother died on the same day. He wrote a single line in his diary that day: "The light has gone out of my life." Then he left politics, bought two cattle ranches along the Little Missouri River, and spent the better part of two years as a rancher in wild country most Americans back east had never seen. He later said it was where the romance of his life began. He said he never would have been president without it. The landscape did something to him. He watched overgrazing strip the grass and market hunters empty the plains of game. He saw how fast a place could be used up. By the time he reached the White House, he had taken those lessons to heart and made them policy. Roosevelt put roughly 230 million acres under public protection. 150 national forests. 51 wildlife refuges. 5 national parks. 18 national monuments. He signed the Antiquities Act in 1906 and used it to protect the Grand Canyon when Congress wouldn't. This week, a presidential library opened in Medora, on the edge of the Badlands he ranched. It's built into a butte above the Little Missouri, facing the same country he looked out on while he was trying to put his life back together. It gathers his whole story in one place for the first time, and it carries his conservation legacy forward. Roosevelt's story is a testament to the resilience of the American spirit and the healing power of our land. Our landscapes have shaped and inspired some of our greatest heroes, and will continue to do so, but only if we make it a priority to protect them.

In 1963, there were 417 nesting pairs of bald eagles left in the entire lower 48.  The national symbol of the United States was almost gone. When the country put the bald eagle on its Great Seal in 1782, as many as 100,000 of them nested across the continent.  Then came DDT, a pesticide sprayed across the country to kill insects after World War II. It washed into rivers, into fish, and into the eagles that ate them. It thinned their eggshells until the eggs broke under the weight of the parent trying to hatch them. Add decades of shooting and lost habitat, and the bald eagle was nearly wiped out. So Americans brought it back. DDT was banned in 1972. The Endangered Species Act passed the next year, with strong bipartisan support. The bald eagle was one of the first animals it protected. Nests were guarded, and birds were raised and released into places they had vanished from. It worked. In 1995 the eagle was downgraded from endangered to threatened. In 2007 it came off the endangered list entirely.  Today there are an estimated 316,700 bald eagles across the lower 48. And in 2024, Congress made it official, with no opposition. The bald eagle is the national bird of the United States. One of America's greatest symbols of freedom and patriotism was nearly lost. As we celebrate the country's 250th birthday, it's worth remembering that caring for this land is as American as the bird that represents it.

The most patriotic thing our leaders could do is ensure 250 more years of protecting America’s wondrous beauty.

Climate change can’t be real but this can be. Got it. Trying to catch up

Medora, North Dakota. Home of the brand new (and incredibly iconic) Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. We need a TR-sized investment in our natural and conservation heritage again. Love this place. 🇺🇸

Breaking: Bloomberg news confirms that CBP will build two miles of border wall through Big Bend Ranch State Park. This follows multiple CBP statements that walls would NOT be built in state or national parks—only roads & vehicle barriers. Zero transparency from the feds here.

Sorry, but our nation desperately needs QUALIFIED people to run for office again

@CandideOptimum Arizona has a Democrat governor. Colorado and Washington's have been amazing, too. GOP and Dem governors *both* have been effective with this, outside of a couple exceptions

@BenjiBacker When built by Republican governors, but not in California

Contrary to the discourse, wildlife overpasses work.

Tree cover in cities decreases temperatures by up to 10 degrees on hot summer days, saving billions of dollars and countless lives. We should bring back nature to every city.