Jim O'Donnell

FOUNTAIN CREEK, can be found at the following locations: SOMOS, Taos, NM Analogue Books, Pueblo, CO El Pueblo Museum, Pueblo, CO Fountain Creek Nature Center, Fountain CO Poor Richard's, Colorado Springs, CO Mountain Chalet, Colorado Springs, CO & www.torreyhouse.org/fountain-creek #FountainBook

An excellent and informative read. We really need to be smarter (and humble) in how we “manage” the natural world. We’re not above consequences, and nature bats last.

October floods: ‘This is a legendary event’. Heavy rains feed record river flows, close roads and force evacuations along the #RioGrande from South Fork into Conejos County as emergency managers assess the damage -- Owen Woods and Chris Lopez (AlamosaCitizen.com) coyotegulch.blog/2026/10/26/o...

Floods strand families, force rescues as #SanJuanRiver nears major flood stage -- The Navajo Times coyotegulch.blog/2026/10/26/f...

I just wrote my first Substack. Free. I doubt I'll ever charge for any Substacks I write. Anyway, give it a gander. All That Four Corners Flooding? It Isn’t Just El Niño jimodonnell381531.substack.com/p/all-that-f... #Colorado #NewMexico #NMwx #COwx #UTwx #AZwx #FourCorners #ElNino #ClimateChange

South Platte River Basin #climate for the week ending October 26, 2026 #SouthPlatteRiver coyotegulch.blog/2026/10/26/s...

Last winter’s snow drought and the thick fingerprints of climate change bigpivots.com/last-winters...

Arizona joins Nevada to fight federal Colorado River plan: The Grand Canyon State is suing over Trump administration rules that would sharply reduce the amount of water Arizona receives from the river -- Stephanie Casanova (High Country News) coyotegulch.blog/2026/10/21/a...

This country will go to any lengths possible to avoid living within reality. No matter how dumb, wasteful and painful it is.

TRUTH 👇.......

How climate change is messing with the West’s weather: Record fires, floods and weather whiplash makes for a region of extremes -- Jonathan P. Thompson (High Country News) #RioGrande #ColoradoRiver #COriver #aridification coyotegulch.blog/2026/10/20/h...

Elon Musk has spent at least $366 million since July to boost Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterms. That’s just 0.0385% of his total net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

There is statistically NO correlation between Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries and global fuel costs. But there is a provable correlation between Trump setting the entire Middle East on fire and global fuel costs.

Nearly 250,000 gallons of not fully disinfected wastewater from #PuebloWest leaked into tributaries of the #ArkansasRiver -- KRCC coyotegulch.blog/2026/10/18/n...

The biggest problem with Clinton saying what she did is that it was the truth. And still is.

Kroger just announced the largest layoffs in its history, with plans to cut 3,000 employees as it ramps up use of AI. Reminder that Kroger has spent $12.3B on stock buybacks since 2019 and paid its CEO $14M last year — 417x its median worker's pay. AI is turbo-charging corporate greed.

The comments are just as interesting as the article. weatherwest.com/archives/44119

Rio Fernando Cleanup!! Come on out, #Taos, and help clean up our local creek. Saturday, Oct. 24th, 9am-1pm. Lunch is provided. Meet at Taos County Courthouse. A great opportunity to hang out w/ other community members and to keep our waterways clean. SEE YOU THERE! #NMwx #NMwater #NewMexico

“The National Park Service is supposed to protect every park. Instead, parks across the country are being neglected while money flows to the president’s pet projects.” US Interior cancels maintenance, programming at national parks, including several New Mexico sites sourcenm.com/2026/10/12/u...

We will not survive unless we bring the rich to heel.

NM must prepare for 25-30% less streamflow over next 50 years | Environment | taosnews.com www.taosnews.com/news/environ... || #NewMexico #NMTrue #NMwx #NMwater

How a century-old pricing system has emptied the Colorado River bigpivots.com/how-a-centur...

Our community fundraised $300,000 in the first day! Thank you everyone who continues to support Ukraine!

Denver Water to reduce Fraser River flows amid extreme #drought -- The October 13 reduction will lower #FraserRiver flows to 2 cubic feet per second as Denver Water responds to drought and systemwide water shortages -- Sky-Hi Daily News coyotegulch.blog/2026/10/07/d...

Socialism works for the common people. You know. Those people the GOP doesn't care about.

Records come and records go. But this is one for the ages. The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly is now at a record 3.23°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. This crushes the previous daily record set in 1982 by over 1.14°C. The Climate 8-ball is looking up.

By allowing rapists to run this country with impunity, we encourage this sort of horror at every level of society.

A new legal path for stream restoration in #Colorado runs into old water conflicts: Projects repair degraded headwaters, but downstream users have concerns -- Heather Sackett (AspenJournalism.org) coyotegulch.blog/2026/10/01/a...

We still dont see most elected Democrats fighting back strong enough.

What will happen to the #GrandCanyon as water levels drop? The impacts will reverberate through recreation, river ecology and local tribes -- Heather Hansman (High Country News) #ColoradoRiver #COriver #aridification coyotegulch.blog/2026/09/29/w...

🌍⚠️ A UK intelligence report links climate and nature loss directly to national security. It warns that collapsing ecosystems could increase risks of food shortages, migration, conflict and economic disruption. Showing how climate change is starting to be treated as a security and resilience issue.

This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇

Knowledge Keepers | NOVA | PBS || www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vi... || #Indigenous #science

Las Playas Intaglio, damaged by Az-Mx border wall contractors, is older than Egyptian pyramids & Stonehenge www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report... || #archaeology #borderwall #indigenous

Dene, Pauquachin, Choctaw and Diné traditional leaders featured in NOVA documentary www.buffalosfire.com/the-daily-sp...

The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way.

The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left." It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power. Remember this.

An article by me about the future of #NewMexico forests. ‘These forests will never recover’ — Climate change-associated fires stump reforestation efforts - Science Literacy Project geneticliteracyproject.org/2023/05/15/v... | #NMwx #NMfire #climatechange

It is far past time we aggressively enforce our anti-trust laws.

From last year. A good history lesson.

Fascinating thread.

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

The Atmosphere Just Set a Water Vapor Record August - highest water vapor levels in modern record due to extreme warmth from climate change & El Niño. Trend will continue when dumping carbon into atmosphere & it will contribute to increasing, intense rain events open.substack.com/pub/theclima...

Of Course, We Know Their Game...

Putin owns the White House.