A photo of a small group from our class walking down a steep slope of burnt forest. In the background are mountains cloaked in mountain beech forest.
A photo in the forest of Frank Ashwood holding a rotting log while student Linus photographs a springtail and another student Viola looks on.
A photo of part of the class in an area of burnt beech forest. On the course we set up 30 m by 30 m plots in the different habitats to assess the vegetation, invertebrates, birds, and fungi. This photo is in one of the plots. Despite the fire being back in December 2024, the recovery has only recently started with most of the ground still being bare.
A photo of retired forester and restoration ecologist Nick Ledgard shows the class some of his restoration trial plots. There are cages and uncaged plots on the burnt forest floor, some with native seedlings planted in them and others have forest litter. The cages are to protect from the deer and hares that are widespread in the area.
I spent this week up in the Craigieburn Forest Park of the NZ Southern Alps helping to teach our Masters level Conservation Biology course at #LincolnUniversityNZ.
This is the first year we've run the course field trip at this location. We did so to better […]
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