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ecologyphd.bsky.social
Dr Ecology 🌲
@ecologyphd.bsky.social
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Ecologist in Sierra-Nevadas.
(he/him/él)
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Restoration ecology, forest health, assisted gene flow & conservation.

EcoRestore🪻 feed for #GenerationRestoration

Opinions are my own and not representative of my employer.
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Performing a back burn along McKinley Grove Road to stop the #Garnet Fire’s forward progression in the Dinkey drainage. #WildlandFire #USForestService
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September 15, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Walking 9+ miles of suppression lines across the Carrizo Plain National Monument resulted in finding this trophy Tule Elk deadhead.

Found “in the black” fire footprint. Don’t know how many years is was there, but now fully visible with all the grass, forbs, and shrubs gone.
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Tule Elk deadhead laying in dirt and burnt over grasses and forbs.
July 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Out on the Madre fire helping identify suppression repair needs.
Grateful for the opportunity to work in this amazing area.
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Burning juniper in the black fire footprint, near “Painted Rocks”. Smoke from the fire on the mountain, as seen from Selby campground. Panorama of the Carrizo Plain, with burned vegetation on the left and unburnt vegetation on the right. View of the San Andreas fault in Carrizo Plain National Monument.
July 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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What happens when I forget my coffee.
View of car hood (with glasses circled), dirt road, and mixed-conifer trees as seen through the windshield.
June 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Saw this meme for academia and repurposed it.
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June 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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A little medicine w/ my littles.

Took an extended weekend camping. Unplugged and disconnected from the current madness was the perfect Rx for the soul.

We went fishing, swimming and hiking.

Highlights inc. a black bear cub 🐻 , bald eagle 🦅 , Sierra garter snake 🐍, & prehistoric BRM.

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Three children sitting on gray granite rock, looking at “Bedrock mortars” or depressions carved into bedrock outcrops during the Late Prehistoric period. Used for grinding and processing acorns and typically near running water. Three children huddled together, observing the lightly clouded yellow and orange sunset over a granite and mixed-conifer landscape. Black and white dog laying on rocky lake shore next to a water logged stump holding a white fishing pole, with green mixed-conifer forest in the background. Three children sitting around a campfire, roasting marshmallows with a fading sun setting over a granite and mixed-conifer landscape.
June 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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What I would give for a special Elon v. tRump episode right now
Cover art for Celebrity Death Match, a claymation TV show from the 90s that would pit celebrities against each other in mock pit-fights, often ending in the gruesome death of one or both participants.
June 6, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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I was away for a few weeks helping out Superior NF on the Brimson Complex Fire in MN.

I love these opportunities to help these communities, meet new people, & learn about different ecosystems & their fire regimes.

I had a blast, but it is nice to be home again.
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Panoramic view of Stone Lake in Superior National Forest - MN. Blue lake and skies in center, green herbaceous vegetation and trees on right and left of photo. Colvin Creek in Superior National Forest. Floating red pump set up in creek with blue 2-in hose laid out. Burned trees in background and new herbaceous vegetation coming up from chard earth in the foreground. Lycopodium annotinum L. (interrupted club-moss). Photo is focused on the club moss with green needlelike leaves, topped with tan strobili. Inspecting suppression damage on MN DNR plantation land to help develop an effective repair plan. Fireline Resource Advisor (REAF) whith white hardhat, yellow top, and green pants standing in middle of brown muddy dozer tracks beyond the standing water. Green vegetation in either side of tracks with conifer (Red Pine, black spruce) and deciduous (birch, aspen) trees in the background on an overcast day.
June 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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This outreach notice from the #USFS has got me a bit confused.
I get that these notices are often internal & used to test for interest, but what I don’t get is why all these positions are located in D.C. w/ the upcoming #RIF and reorganizations supposedly targeting WO employees, why D.C.
Screenshot of Employment Outreach Notice for multiple job series and GS levels for located in Washington, D.C.
April 22, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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I miss the simpler times of grad school.

Like when we had to defrost the sprayer lines with an impromptu fire bc they froze whilst driving out to the study site in sub-zero temps.
Man holding a burning stick while attempting to defrost lines of a water tank attached to the bucket of a front-end loader, in the burn scar of the sage-brush steppe of Nevada.
April 20, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Lesson learned.

A caution when using “block lists” from other users. Apparently, one of which I was subscribed was inappropriately blocking @ossoff.bsky.social and the only reason I found out was through a “blocked” quote post from someone else that I follow.

Don’t let others moderate your feed
April 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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🚨 MS POSITION 🚨
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#GenerationRestoration
The Martyn Lab seeks applications to the Rangeland Science Master’s program @ Oregon State University to explore drivers of rangeland restoration the PNW & Great Basin.
Tuition & stipend included.
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Flyer announcing Master’s Student position with the Martyn Ecology Lab as OSU.
April 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Once the dust of the DRPs, VERA, VSIP, and RIF settles, it will be left to those that remain to be the wrench in the cogs of this corrupt administration. They will be the cornerstones from which we will rebuild.
Until then, be the #wrench & mitigate the damage.
A clip art of a wrench falling between two cogs, stopping their ability to turn.
April 19, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Had to take a #MentalHealthDay with all the stress at work. Feeling much better (and more productive) today.
#BlueBirdDay
#NoLiftLines
#PrayForSnow
Mostly empty chairs on chairlift near the snow covered summit. Ski patrol shack below a rock outcropping that is covered in patchy snow. Light wispy clouds present in a mostly blue sky.
March 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Excited for another productive couple of days w/ amazing colleagues & collaborators dedicated to protecting & conserving our #GiantSequoias on federal, state, and tribal lands!

#GSLC
#PublicService
#NationalParks
#Monarchs
#GenerationRestoration

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Giant Sequoia Lands Coalition 2025 annual meeting agenda. Twin torched monarch Giant Sequoias in a moderate severity fire footprint on Giant Sequoia National Monument. Monarch Giant Sequoia in background with light snow cover in foreground.
March 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨

The North Fork John Day Watershed Council is hiring a Restoration Project Manager.

Long Creek, OR
$55k-$60k / year

www.nfjdwc.org/open-positions

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#PlantScience
#GenerationRestoration
#JobAlert
February 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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With the potential job loss hanging over my head due to the Reduction in Force memo released today, I find solace building my chicken coop.

What started as a luxury project has morphed into a subsistence necessity.

#ChickenCoop
#Eggs
#RIF
#Homesteading
Chicken coop and run construction in-progress with a Sierra Foothills sunset in the background.
February 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Brace yourselves Feds, the current “calm” is just the eye of a much larger storm…

Reduction in Force guidance was just issued to all agencies.
#RIP2025
#RIF
#DOGE
#OPM
#OMB
OMB & OPM Memorandum to Agency Departments with “Guidance on Agency RIF and Reorganization Plans […]” Page 2 of OMB & OPM RIF Memorandum Page 3 of OMB & OPM RIF Memorandum Page 7 (Appendix) of OMB & OPM DOGE RIF Memorandum. Template of RIF plan for agency reference.
February 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨

The Peregrine Fund is hiring a Geographic Information Systems (‬‭GIS) Specialist to‬‭ serve as a technical resource and aid in the management of GIS applications and spatial data.

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peregrinefund.org/sites/defaul...
Job announcement for a GIS specialist with The Peregrine Fund. Detailing the Job Title, located in Boise or Remote, Full Time and permanent. Additional details include the Mission, Working with Us, Positions Summary, and a few Responsibilities and Scope.
February 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Resignation is not an option!
#PublicServant
#Resist
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January 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Sharing a new paper led by Gavin Williams related to how giant sequoia cohorts may recruit interactively w/ low severity fire & how "colonnade" structural features may be connected to fire processes.
Graphical abstract & pub link below.
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#PlantScience

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The century-long era of fire suppression has resulted in dramatic decreases in giant sequoia regeneration and recruitment. A 2001 mechanical disturbance in a native grove created experimental canopy gaps ranging in size from 0.05 to 0.4 ha, where factors of giant sequoia recruitment were monitored. The patches of recruitment all burned in a 2021 wildfire, creating an opportunity to study fire-gap recruitment dynamics. The study questions were (1) what was the relationship between gap size and tree height up to the point of the fire, (2) which tree- and gap-level variables explained mortality amongst the planted trees, and (3) did a pre-fire thin-and-prune treatment increase fire-related crown damage? There was an asymptotic relationship between average tree height and gap size. Increases in gap size beyond 0.2 ha led to only modest increases in average tree height. The overall mortality rate of study trees, averaged across gaps, was 26 %, ranging from 5.0 % to 52 %. A generalized linear mixed-effects model (GLMM) was fit to determine factors of mortality. Taller trees had lower probability of mortality, followed by trees closer to the centers of gaps. The pre-fire thin-and-prune treatment did not have a statistically significant effect on mortality or crown damage. A key finding was that canopy gaps facilitated giant sequoia recruitment by altering the resource environment while also altering patterns of fuel accumulation. Tree height was maximized in gaps greater than 0.2 ha, but gaps as small as 0.05 ha protected interior trees from fire.
December 19, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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Not an echo chamber, more like a healing sound bath.
A warm room with pillows, sound bowls, candles, and healing crystals.
November 26, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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Name a better qualified doctor than Dr. Oz.
I submit Dr. Hackenbush.
November 20, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline
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November 16, 2024 at 4:59 AM
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As an Associate Ecologist, what is the appropriate career path to become the next Royal Ecologist of Arrakis?
November 16, 2024 at 4:57 AM