Old homesteads becoming densely-packed housing subdivisions on Colorado’s semiarid grasslands:

Invasive Carpobrotus (Aizoaceae) blankets vast swaths of the California coastline, crowding out native species in this special region of high native endemism:

The Mojave desert and other areas have become a helium balloon graveyard:

Forests across the Southern Rocky Mountains, and indeed far beyond, are suffering widespread mortality through the agency of bark beetles (weevil family):


Cows grazing within protected Wilderness boundaries in the South San Juan Mountains:

Many urban areas on Earth are becoming further choked in squalor, which has downstream effects on all:
