#FridayFeeling : “Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”
― Helen Keller

Get out and enjoy that sunshine today! 🌞☀️

Bobcats in Connecticut? Yes, They’re Everywhere buff.ly/2uc2DV8

Trees clean the air, produce oxygen and sequester carbon dioxide. Support tree-planting. trib.al/t4ucIES

Moving day: Bear family living in highway median relocated bit.ly/2JrS5M7 via New Haven Register

“So through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the shadowy solitude my longing for light grew so frantic that I could rest no more, and I… instagram.com/p/BvD95AMg5Kn/…

ON THE PROWL: Marilyn in Wallingford sent me this video of a bobcat in her backyard! Wowza. Check out those big paws! 🐾 Watch your pets... NBC Connecticut CT DEEP DEEP #nbcct

Today we carried out a den check on a 19 year old female black bear, who has lost all her teeth from wear and tear, yet incredibly has 3 healthy cubs. What an amazing mom. I had the tough job of keeping her cubs warm for a while 😉 #Bears #fieldwork

“If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.”
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“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal… instagram.com/p/Bu_XlhZAH3n/…

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.”
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“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, 'Go to sleep,… instagram.com/p/Bu-2mQIAidB/…

What a beautiful day we had today. Can’t wait to get back out there, trails and all.
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Hello all! Listen up! ☺️ We had an idea to have you guys choose our new logo, because we thing The Giant’s people are the best representation of our park. What do you think? Would you all… instagram.com/p/Bu-dwyWAygW/…

“Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.” — Terry Tempest Williams #WednesdayWisdom

Did you know a new study shows that air pollution is killing millions of more people than we previously thought? 😷
Read more: act.gp/2Hwt1AD

I can’t wait until I can just sit up there again, after an uplifting hike, chug down some water, and a read a book. Soon... soon.
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Hello all! Sleeping Giant State Park’s Instagram is officially up and running! Stay turned to hear when we’ll be opening! Thank you to a fellow IG user for this beautiful photo! Winter is… instagram.com/p/Bu8RFHhAR-O/…

“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night & spring after winter.”—Rachel Carson #TuesdayThoughts

.Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition op-ed: “It is our duty to assure that Bears Ears be managed forever with the greatest environmental sensitivity so that we may be with our ancestors, and so that we may connect with the land and be healed.” #StandWithBearsEars #HonorTribes bit.ly/2VQqtBh

Help stop a delisting catastrophe! The US Department of the Interior is planning to remove most #graywolves from under the #EndangeredSpeciesAct in the lower 48 states, putting the future of the species in peril. Demand they keep their federal protections! dfnd.us/2F3Z35C #StopExctinction