Krista Bonfantine 🔥💧

@aridideas.bsky.social

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Watershed ecologist, 🔥 lighter, 💦 protector. Smoke microbiome postdoc 🧬 🖥️ Enchanted by/in NM 🇺🇸. She/her

Close up of bagged lettuce from Trader Joe’s with code indicating it came from Taylor Farms.
A screenshot of posts displaying same image for multiple papers.
A map from the WatchDuty app showing the new 20 acre Enchantment Fire SE of Las Vegas, NM.
A grey, ugly gravel expanse with a few plants scattered throughout.
A large black bee with purplish wings sits on the upper left part of a passionflower that takes up most of the frame.
Yellow plants on left, reeds and wetland plants in center foreground with pond and the Sandia Mountains behind. A thin layer of white clouds extends above.
Screenshot from WatchDuty app shows map with Cummings Fire, located of north of I-40
Three sandhill cranes are foraging in a grassy field.
Bag of horse stall refresher product.
A tuxedo cat sits on a lap covered by a blue quilt. Red embers burn in the fireplace behind a black fire screen.
Dark and stormy Sandia Mountains provide a backdrop for a golden field dotted with ~20 feeding sandhill cranes.
A light colored pot on a brick patio has green foliage and orange calendula flowers. Hairy vetch is the vining plant that is spilling over the edges.
Community garden rows with mountains in background. Cranes that can be heard are difficult to see.
Ariel Greenwood is in the lower right of the photo. Behind her on a large screen is a slide with two photos of rock structures constructed on a ranch. ORD stands for one rock dams that slow and spread water.
A sculpture outside the Santa Fe Community Convention Center with dark, stone trout emerging from the patio. Red chile ristras are hanging with a backdrop of yellow leaves. A road with cars sits in the background.
Green plants in the foreground with the Rio Grande River flowing from left to right The Sandia Mountains are in the distance with a backdrop of blue sky.
Bag of tortilla chips with tiny containers of salsa and a ballot in a cardboard flat.
Red hummus colored with beets. Purple cat mint flowers are at top of photo as garnish.
Old carpet remnant on left with green carpet of weed seedlings on the right (including black irrigation hose).
Wire cylinders in garden bed with insulated, green wall of water on bottom and brown burlap coffee sacks on top. White snow blankets the top of everything.
Chart showing ERC levels (min, max, 2024 & 2025) since 2015. The blue line for 2025 exceeds the previous maximum values shown in red for much of 2025.
Sign reads, “please don’t feed the seagulls. It encourages them to crap on you and your food.
Map from Watch Duty app showing wind vectors in white and spread of Mogote Hill Fire in orange.
Purple penstemon and blue flax flowers against a backdrop of green grass.
Two aspen trees that have been chewed about 2/3 through by beavers with a green meadow in the background.
In the foreground is a drone (a.k.a. UAS) outfitted with special aerosol sampling equipment on its orange landing mat. In the background is a large smoke plume from a high-intensity prescribed burn in Utah. The photo was taken in October so the grasses and aspens are a beautiful golden color.
A willow tree with yellow leaves and a bright blue sky in the background.
View looking across a meadow at green, summertime ski slopes. Dead trees visible on left side.
Looking out over a mountain meadow with yellowing grasses and aspen trees. Valley in background has smoky haze.
Lots of Tree of Heaven with yellow leaves.
Young kale plants in a garden bed with a pumpkin vine in the background.
Plants and trees with leaves in fall color.
Looking up at aspen tree trunk and canopy.
Yellow and orange leaves on apricot tree.
Drones waiting to collect samples with smoke plume in background.