If you know what to look for, you can learn a ton about forests just by looking at maps! Here’s an example of my “forest detective computer magic” (lol)

#forest #forestry #tree #trees #ecology #ecosystem #nature #science #stem

Periodic reminder that without biodiversity, we’re all doomed.

Let’s not brush it aside and focus solely on carbon (obviously critical).

Focusing on carbon while sidelining biodiversity is a catastrophic mistake.

Biodiversity isn’t optional. It’s fundamental to our very existence.

Photo dump from a weekend of restoration work around Chicago.
I feel like there’s something beautifully ominous about all of these minus the one of me holding a chainsaw which is JUST ominous

Peregrines volunteers, heads down working on removing one of the LAST patches of buckthorn at Somme, a site where a stewardship community has been doing restoration work for almost 40 years (or more?!) 😭
(Look bottom left to see a shadow of me holding a smartphone for the pic. Classic.)

Remnant woodland burns
Toasted mushrooms, cute sedges
Tough white oaks grateful

Thank you for reading my post-prescribed burn haiku 🙏

Another beautiful autumnal Sunday at Superior Street Prairie, just after the first snow of the season. Stewards can be seen here walking a fire break put in for an upcoming Rx burn, while discussing management of encroaching aspen and black locust trees and admiring showy goldenrod seed heads 🤩