Chick Lupine (lupinus microcarpus), Larkspur (delphinium nuttallianum) and California Poppies (eschscholzia californica).
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Spring madia with hammock.
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A Twining Snakelily (dichelostemma volubile)
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Sierra Clover (trifolium willdenovii)
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Ithuriel's Spear (triteleia laxa)
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Spring Madia with pollinator.
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Spotted this Pacific False Bindweed (calystegia purpurata) on my morning walk.
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A Menzies Fiddleneck (amsinckia menziesii).
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A patch of Chinese Houses (collinsia heterophylla).
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Two Coastal Tidytips (layia platyglossa) amid the Owl's Clover.
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A field of wildflowers, mostly Owl's Clover, Goldfields and Tidytips.
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Lots of Blue Dicks (dichelostemma capitatum) this year.
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California blue eyed grass (sisyrinchium bellum).
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The wildflowers are back. A field of California Goldfields (lasthenia californica).
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View from the job site this afternoon.
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Read the paper here: tinyurl.com/5byfab8f
Findings: restored #OakWoodlands have higher #SoundscapeSaturation #AcousticComplexity, #arthropod biomass, & #bird abundance
Maia Persche, Zuzana Burivalova, Anna Pidgeon @sagara-sailways.bsky.social @uwmadisoncals.bsky.social @nature.org
Saw foot prints of a #Bobcat that we have been hearing in the evenings, 150m from the cabin, where we have been restoring an old field into #OakWoodlands!
Collected a lot of measurements and found a #hair sample. Just couldn't help being an #ecologist even on a casual ski day!
tinyurl.com/5byfab8f
We found that restored #OakWoodlands have higher mean #SoundscapeSaturation and #Acoustic Complexity, reflecting higher #arthropod biomass, & #bird abundance
Coauthors: Maia Persche, Zuzana #Burivalova, Anna #Pidgeon @uwmadscience.bsky.social
@nature.org @bhrc.bsky.social
They're everywhere!
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Portrait of a Blue Oak in the fog. Thick fog all day which is unusual for this location.
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Central Sierra snow report from Lot 35.
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Sunset at Lot 35 with the lights of Sonora visible near the right edge of the photo.
#sierrafoothills #lot35 #oakwoodlands #crepuscular
Looking east at sunset.
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Listening to the woodpeckers...
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Check out the latest newsletter from our friends at the Oak Woodlands and Forests Fire Consortium. buff.ly/ahJkTps #OakWoodlands #Wildfire #Fire #Forests #FireScience
Andrea Mackenzie, General Manager of (client) Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority, reflects on the importance of #oakwoodlands and their role as a defining feature of California’s natural landscape in the latest episode of @kqednews.kqed.org’s #Perspectives:
www.kqed.org/perspectives...
View from the hammock.
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This reminds me of the #book #MySideOfTheMountain 👀💙📚
A cozy home inside a tree.
#moss #OakWoodlands #JeanCraigheadGeorge #YoungAdult
The browsing, trampling, & defecation by the #blacktaileddeer in #oakwoodlands may affect the distribution of #nutrients, the regeneration patterns of dominant plants (e.g. #oaks), and the interaction of dominant #plants with other plant species in the #ecosystem.