Max Lambert

🏘&💡 abundance 🫶 🌲🐸🦬🦋

Check our preprint on building abundant housing and energy while protecting and restoring nature

Tough conversations but I'm glad someone like @sophielgilbert.bsky.social is having it!

Can supporting masculinity help solve climate change and heal society?

Interesting lessons from this book & study. A new approach to masculinity and supporting boys/men may help heal society and the planet. Maybe a warmer version of masculinity can cool our planet and society #climate #masculinity

I'm proud to be a Board Member at Thurston Housing Land Trust! Housing is one of our most important issues. As a conservationist, I believe conserving nature and building much-needed housing can co-exist. I think we can be conservationists who build. And I'm grateful for the work ahead.

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The first full year of tracking research on @bsky.app

Hi, we are Altmetric, and we track how research is communicated across the web.

We now have one full calendar year of Bluesky research data and thought we'd have a looksie.

2025 in #Science. Publications aren't the most important thing in science but they can be a fun record of a year's portfolio of research. The below figures showcase the diversity of my research that came out this past year. All of this science relied on collaborations with 𝓭𝓸𝔃𝓮𝓷𝓼 of diverse partners

The Case for Conservation Abundance | PERC How fixing America’s affordability crisis points toward a conservation future defined by plenty rather than scarcity

What do houses, energy, and sixty-pound salmon have in common? All of them are currently scarce but could be plentiful with the right changes to policy and practice. 🧪🐟🏘️🔋

How do we get to this "conservation abundance" future for nature and people? I have thoughts!

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WA still has some of the most affordable home insurance in the country, but prices are rising. Sea-level rise and increased wildfire threat will continue to increase premiums. GMA helps insulate us from the latter though SMA could be improved to encourage active retreat, imo.

Farmers can advance Washington state’s energy needs • Washington State Standard COMMENTARY | Rather than converting farmland to solar facilities, we could build solar arrays and continue growing crops and raising livestock beneath.

Agrivoltaics "could be one way to ease competition between the agriculture and solar energy sectors."

Washington needs a lot of renewable energy and we are going to have to figure out how to build it quickly and responsibly

Proud to publish this

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Fun to see our local, undergraduate-led study on salmon eggs and fry being eaten by introduced African Clawed Frogs in Washington highlighted in AmphibiaWeb. @amphibiaweb.org holds a special place in my heart for its reach to global conservation circles. 🐸 💚 🐟

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Beaver‐related restoration and freshwater climate resilience across western North America Climate change will diminish the quality and connectivity of stream and riparian habitats and threaten native stream-associated species across western North America. Ecological restoration that mitig...

🦫Beavers🦫 have been getting a lot of attention in recent years, but do they actually matter for water and climate resilience throughout western North America?

We scoured the #science on (1) beaver reintroductions and (2)beaver mimicry - check it out

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Washington can grow solar energy and keep farmland productive. TNC’s agrivoltaics study mapped land, modeled crop impacts, and surveyed 100+ farmers to show how clean energy and agriculture can thrive together. ☀️ 🪴

🔗 Explore the report here to learn more https://nature.ly/48ANwJi

Time for enviro NGOs to forge a new strategy that meets the real needs of people while also improving outcomes for nature and climate. "Policies of Plenty" for humans and nature are possible, especially when compared to the no-action scenario (business as usual is a longterm lose-lose) #greensky

I recently carved this 57lb bow from a piece of Pacific yew from the North Cascades and it's a joy to shoot

Salmon don't need any more problems, but African Clawed Frogs might be a new one. Our newly-published experiment shows that these frogs easily chow down on eggs, alevin, and fry from multiple salmon species

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Gen Z wants to work outside, but PNW conservation jobs are vanishing Young people are eager to work in the outdoors. But federal cuts slashed 1,300 AmeriCorps positions in Washington, and the future of conservation looks bleak.

The loss of outdoor youth jobs in conservation is going to be a hit to Washington's and America's land, water, and wildlife for years to come

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HOW we study biodiversity shapes WHAT we understand about biodiversity

We show that trait variability (1) within individuals, (2) among individuals of the same species, and (3) between species changes what we understand about evolution to changing environments

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Agrivoltaic Feasibility in Washington State Through a collaboration between The Nature Conservancy and partners, we produced a report on the feasibility of agrivoltaics in Washington state.

Renewable Energy 🤝 Agriculture

💡"Agrivoltaics" 🐄 🫐 means building solar energy so crops and/or livestock can be grown under and between solar panels

We just wrapped up a big study to understand of agrivoltaics are feasible in Washington state

@science.nature.org

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Thimble and black caps were nutters!

Trails in the Olympics are bursting with berries right now!

Emerging from four days pulling dozens of bird song recorders and wildlife cameras from our three coastal TNC forest preserves. I'm grateful to study biodiversity in one of the most beautiful landscapes on Earth. These data will help us understand how wildlife responds to forest restoration

Worth reading!

Building the neighborhood for the trees: Illuminating win–wins for housing densification and nature Housing is urgently needed for millions of people. How we add that housing will have substantial consequences for ecosystems and for nature's contributions to people. We assess win–wins for adding ho....

Housing is urgently needed for millions of people. Lambert et Al share that how we add that housing will have substantial consequences for ecosystems and for nature's contributions to people. In this article, they assess win–wins for adding housing and maintaining nature.

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Building the neighborhood for the trees: Illuminating win–wins for housing densification and nature Housing is urgently needed for millions of people. How we add that housing will have substantial consequences for ecosystems and for nature's contributions to people. We assess win–wins for adding ho...

⚠️📢 New peer-reviewed research finds no evidence to support the myth that increasing density and rezoning systematically contributes to loss of tree canopy.

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Housing or trees? Science says "why not both?"

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We need housing. We also needs trees. Our new study across western Washington finds gaining housing at the expense of trees is not inevitable.

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#conservation #housing #biodiversity #winwin

Housing or trees? Science says "why not both?"

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We need housing. We also needs trees. Our new study across western Washington finds gaining housing at the expense of trees is not inevitable.

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#conservation #housing #biodiversity #winwin

💚🐢My research now touches everything from solar panels to salmon recovery, but one of my first and forever science loves are turtles. And today is a very happy World Turtle Day

This beauty is one of the many stunning western pond turtles I've had the privilege of working with

#WorldTurtleDay

Bearded dragon alerts homeowner to house fire A bearded dragon named Spike is being hailed as a hero for waking up his owner to alert him of a house fire in King County

The only news worth telling

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Climate change? Land use? Both? "Nature isn't really our friend, is it?"

Yesterday's Doonesbury captures a common sentiment and underscores how climate change is overemphasized when many natural challenges are due to land use decisions

#Beavers #Conservation #Biodiversity #ClimateChange

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Field Prep!

Deploying dozens of acoustic recorders for birds and cameras for mammals (and a dash of AI) to study what biodiversity looks like in Pacific Northwest forests that are in various stages of transition out of industrial timber harvest

#biodiversity #conservation

Opinion | This is the most adorable creature you might never see The spotted salamander has been heralding the season’s arrival for millions of years.

The purest opinion content in the media these days. I might quibble gently over the choice of which salamander is the most adorable creature, but spotted salamanders are up there

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