Amanda Royal 

@earthhope
Investigator of hope. Former newspaper reporter and current eco-news junkie. Two Nevada Press Association awards for environment reporting. Worldwide internal honorable mention from The Associated Press. Centrist collector of solutions.
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More great news from Amanda in this post! A topic near and dear to my heart as someone who works a fair bit on the impacts of flow modification on river ecosystems.

Bring down the dams!

Here’s what I have to say today. I feel very strongly about it.

A thousand likes for this poem in these times!

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Architecture for a hot planet
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I cried yesterday when Dr. Shane Doyle of the Crow Agency ended the Montana Rally for Public Lands with a song to unite us in protecting wild places.

Since Substack is a place for people with real attention spans, I encourage you to listen for the full 90 seconds, with your eyes closed, and imagine the wild place you’d fight for, with this song in your heart.

There’s magic in the togetherness ❤️

California’s Eel River will soon run free. The news prompts me to share my collection of undamming stories, from Maine to Mississippi, India to China.

Bring down the dams!
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The Weekly Anthropocene, February 19 2025

When an ecologist helped Yosemite’s native frogs escape extinction, he noticed that Clark’s nutcrackers flock to frog-filled lakes. Turns out, when the frogs are doing well, bears, coyotes, birds and snakes all thrive, too.

Having spent some time in Yosemite’s High Country watching these stunning birds dart among the trees, it warmed my …

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Ivan’s story about the revival of the California condor is also available in English here: knowablemagazine.org/co… I love his photo of Fernando Gual with the glove puppet he used to feed captive-bred condors.

Hoy, en portada de knowablemagazine.orgestá mi más reciente reportaje (con fotografías del renombrado fotógrafo Patricio Robles Gil) sobre cómo la ciencia y la voluntad de hombres y mujeres han traído de regreso al cóndor de California a los cielos de Norteamérica. Lectura disponible en inglés y en español. Pásenle a leer: