Nick Mustoe

@nickmustoe.bsky.social

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Interested in all things public lands and forestry. Avid reader on the topic of wildfire. Wildlife observer. Liverpool fan. KF0WUY. Opinions I present here are in a personal capacity. 🎯 Dolores, CO

View from San Bernardo Mountain on Uncompaghre National Forest.
Paintbrush chilling out on a hike in the San Juans.
Oh you know, just rock scree mountain tops and spruce forests for as far as the eye can see. Keen eyes will make out Lizard Head.
Scooper plane dropping load of water.
Partly cloudy over a landscape of meadows, Gamble oak, and exposed rock.
View from the top of Anchor Mountain. Very San Juan-y view of dark vegetation giving way to rock slopes.
Looking up at the scree top of Helmet Peak
View from Narraguinnep Mountain.
Water backed up from a beaver dam reflecting a cloud-filled sky.
A man monitors ignitions as part of a prescribed fire.
A male downy woodpecker looks out while cleaning to the bole of a small ponderosa pine tree.
View from north of Highway 141 looking toward the south. Red rock fading into the erosional landscape.
View from Tierra Amarilla Mountain View, Carson National Forest. Tall vertical cliff mountain rises above aspen trees not yet leafed out.
Foreground of pinyon and juniper trees. Red rock of Dolores River Canyon on the far side.
Southern extent of the La Platas with hints of snow. Highway 160 runs at the bottom of the picture.
Pink bloom-filled tree.
A creative representation of a native cutthroat trout painted onto a wooden fence.
A Packtenna radio antenna and 7 meter fishing rod mast for holding the wire. Not pictured, a Xiegu G90 RF radio and battery.
The last of the snow clinging to a scree ridge line below Madden Peak on the La Platas.
A riverfront space with red rock and a elderly ponderosa pine.
Sleeping Ute Mountain with glimmers of snow in the background. Foreground of mesas feeding into a pinyon and juniper canyon. Bright sunshine and blue skies with whispy white clouds.
A cattle dog with a black head and mostly blue and white body looks on from the snow.
Paintbrush, a merle rough collie, faces the camera with snow-covered fur.
Album cover of Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister.
Townsend’s solitaire (Myadestes townsendi) perched on a twig with wind blowing against its feathers.
Grassy meadow in the mountains with clouds and fall color aspen in the distance.
A sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis) amongst other cranes faces the sun, beak open.
View of red rock canyons and the La Sal mountains from west of Moab, Utah.
Orange County choppers argument meme with the text "hey what's your major?" "Natural resource conservation" "so you're going to be a park ranger!?!" *Throw chair* "park ranger is not the only career path for nrc (natural resources and conservation)!" "Ok have fun being a park ranger!"
A sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis) calling to the sky. Other sandhills are reflected in the background.
Paintbrush takes in the frozen Dolores River.
A sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis) in midair, wings up and back, looks ahead while mid-flight. A faint mountain range is in the distance.
Robbers Roost chimney made of sandstone rocks. A jumble of rocks sits below the used chimney, while none of the rest of the structure remains. A stone mantle place has a cow jaw, vertebrae, and some other bone resting on it.
Dark-eyed junco on a stick. Not fluffy enough.
Numerous sandhill cranes (Antigone canadensis) with one facing the camera and exuding a cloud of air.
a male northern pintail (Anas acuta) swimming in tranquil water, its image reflected back at it.
A sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis) faces the morning light, beak down, eye staring intently. Several cranes are grooming themselves in the background.
A sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis) splish splashing its way into flight, still firmly on the ground. But you know, making progress.
Morning sunrise with a swarm of snow geese flying over sandhill cranes bedded down for the night in a flooded field at Bernardo Wildlife Area.
Mostly yellow cover of #49 November/December 2025 issue of New York Review of Architecture. A mouse and traffic light make up the austere design.
A hawk sits atop a draping power line.
red-tailed hawk perched on top of a barn.
Scrub jay perched on a branch.
gadwall shaking itself while standing on an icey pond.
Woods' rose (Rosa woodsii) which is NOT named for growing in the woods but rather Joseph Woods (1776-1864), an English architect, botanist, and early student of roses.
White-breasted nuthatch hanging out on a twig.
Paintbrush the rough collie with a very large stick in her mouth.
Song sparrow on a dead branch.
Cover of The Clock of the Long Bow by Stewart Brand.
A mason jar of Blues Hog barbecue Sauce.
A juniper titmouse hanging out in a Rocky Mountain juniper.
A sandhill crane coming in for a landing.
An odometer showing 1,877.4 miles.
A modular pre-fab wooden-clad building that is somewhere between a tree trunk and a periscope. Each level has circular openings with a balcony.
A rotary phone attached to a ponderosa pine.
A shallow but wide river flows toward McPhee Reservoir below a setting sub on sandstone bluffs.
A blue Tern HSD loaded down with a backpack and three packages in front of the post office.
Paintbrush, a merle rough collie, chews on a stick.
A green CCC jacket against a painter's blanket. Jacket is made of wool, button up down the center, with two small front buttoned pockets and a woven “seersucker rib” waistband.
Bobble head style people on an event poster with everyone looking vaguely concerned in a Christmas setting around a Christmas tree.