View from the job site this afternoon.
#sierrafoothills #lot35 #oakwoodlands #sierranevada #yosemite

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!
#sierrafoothills #lot35 #oakwoodlands #shroomscrolling

Portrait of a Blue Oak in the fog. Thick fog all day which is unusual for this location.
#lot35 #oakwoodlands #sierrafoothills

Central Sierra snow report from Lot 35.
#sierrafoothills #lot35 #oakwoodlands #yosemite #sierranevada

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.
#sierrafoothills #lot35 #oakwoodlands #cloudscapes

Listening to the woodpeckers...
#sierrafoothills #lot35 #oakwoodlands

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.
#sierrafoothills #lot35 #oakwoodlands

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.