Almost 60 percent of the lifetime diets of taimen in Russia's Tugur River is *adult chum salmon*. Imagine what a bad-ass freshwater fish you have to be to just inhale salmon like they're mayflies.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Solid and accurate reporting on our current situation.
I am hiring a new postdoc to work on an ecosystem modeling project with colleagues in hydrology, computer science, and the social sciences, including @mojisadegh.bsky.social
If you want to do impactful work to understand the forest-water relationship, apply:
www.hurteaulab.org/blog/ecosyst...
Article about R&D office closures that interviews my old work colleague, Ali Urza. She left last year for a non-federal position during the DOGE turmoil.
www.kunc.org/regional-new...
Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years
New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
8 reviews is insane. That’s gotta just be an email blast and everyone unexpectedly said yes to the review right? At which point you pick 3 and stop wasting everyone’s time
Although @smithsonianmag.bsky.social hasn’t made any posts yet, I’m delighted to share this article featuring the experiences of a photographer on our Cascade Red Fox team! She made some of the first and most detailed recorded observations at 🦊 den sites www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
23 people could stop this genocidal war criminal. That’s it. 23.
20 Republican senators and 3 republican reps in the house and he’d be out of politics forever. But they won’t.
They’re addicted to power. A drug so strong they’d rather see a civilization die than give it up.
This is absolutely horrible. I work at 3 LTERs and the science produced by these programs simply cannot be replaced. Gold standard.
Lobby your representatives! FY27 appropriations process started with the presidents budget on Fri. These decisions can be changed through congressional earmarks!
The LTER program specifically supports experiments and monitoring to study processes that play out over much longer time-frames than a typical three-to-five-year NSF grant. It's basic infrastructure for how we understand biodiversity... and how biodiversity responds to long-term environmental change
Long-term studies are vital to understanding how species and ecosystems are responding to climate change and other environmental stressors, but difficult to sustain under typical short-term grant cycles. LTER has been funding these since 1980.
This is breaking something that can’t be replaced.
Paper accepted! Excited to share this one soon. Pretty striking results showing human activities alter bear-salmon interactions 🐻
The obscenity of a budget that cuts the forest service to fund the re-opening of Alcatraz as a prison.
Minor clarification—
It’s five regional Stations collapsing to “One R&D,” most sites on list are labs (Research Work Unit w/ special equipment) or Institute / Center (themed research).
I’ve not examined to see if Experimental Forests & Ranges (EFRs) are impacted.
More:
research.fs.usda.gov
We told you.
Rockwell painting Freedom of Speech where a working class looking white guy stands up amongst other whities while they stare at him.
It’s bad that 10 people have more money than 4 billion people
That’s my interpretation. Theres a lot we still don’t know about overall structure, org charts, etc but FS R&D is still here and we’re still doing the important work with a regional focus. Olympia and Corvallis labs are staying, Oly will probably even grow.
Stations are being consolidated into a single, national R&D www.fs.usda.gov/sites/defaul...
NFFE-FSC What We Know About the Proposed Reorganization as of 6om eastern, March 31, 2026 We were notified of the changes today an hour before the rest of the agency was notified. • We have received two (2) article 11 notices ◦ Nationwide reorganization including workforce restructuring via WRAPS (article 32) ◦ National Captial Region Duty Station Changes Associated with Forest Service Reorganization @www.NFFE-FSC.org
HOLD THE LINE NFFE-FSC What We Know About the Proposed Reorganization as of 6pm eastern, March 31, 2026 . The national headquarters will be moving to Salt Lake city. Utah . Aproximatly 260 DC based employees Will need to relocate . The Chief will be moving to SLC and Associate Chief Chris French will be remaining in DC with a small team. • Moving to fifteen (15) State service offices and a handful of operational centers. ◦ operational centers will be located in "Central Oregon," Fort Collins, Athens, Placerville, Missoula, Madison, and Albequerque • Schultz is indicating that the interim operation structure we have now will continue until the new structure is operational • The transitions will be in "phases" @www.NFFE-FSC.org
NFFE-ESC What We Know About the Proposed Reorganization as of 6pm eastern, March 31, 2026 • Fire orginization will remain the same and ready to respond according to Shultz ◦ The way Shultz phrased it, it sounded like only primary fire was going to be unchanged. ⁃ Milita availability will likely be impacted based on how Schultz phrased his statement. -Research and Development will be "unified" into Fort Collins, Colorado under one Director. @www.NFFE-FSC.org
NFFE-FSC What We Know About the Proposed Reorganization as of 6pm eastern, March 31, 2026 • Currently the Structure of our Forests and Grasslands is not proposed to be impacted. • Duty Stations, areas of responsibility, and lines of supervision may change for affected employees. • "There is a place for every one of you in the new organization" Chief Schultz @www.NFFE-FSC.org
It's been a day. The initial call was followed by hour long multiregional breakouts, followed by regional breakouts. The info dam broke and a deluge of information was released. #fsreorg #bettertogether #ourworkmatters
#FSReorg #bettertogether #ourworkmatters
Friendly House leaders are looking at next steps.
Let’s be real: USFS leaders assumed quiet diligence and results would be respected.
If your work is affected by closures— send a tip to let House leaders know the work you do at your facility.
democrats-naturalresources.house.gov/contact/tipl...
Juneau is the primary research lab and its TBD. Anchorage mostly FIA but the building was partially condemned after roof collapsed a few years ago. Alaska always gets forgotten about, but the infrastructure problems are real
I mean there it is.
Taking this opportunity to plug USFS lands as well 👀
To counter the proliferation of AI beaver slop and support people like Jake, here is a Dropbox containing a decade of photos of beavers and their landscapes. Use these as you see fit in reports, presentations, story maps, or for your personal viewing pleasure.
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ho24s...
Good for deer too! bsky.app/profile/pman...
The 2025 federal employee viewpoint survey was a pretty sobering read. Absolutely brutal year for public servants and everyone is feeling it. Thread below and full document here bestplacestowork.org
“1984“ was meant as a warning novel, not a friggin’ instruction manual.
133 years of USGS. 62 years of National Park Service. 20 years of NSF. 22 years of CDC. 18 years of National Cancer Institute, or 4 years of entire NIH. So much science could be done.
This would fund entire US Forest Service for 20 years and USFS Research and Devlopment branch for 666 years 😈