Timothy Martin

The taxodium were really looking great just downriver of Yankeetown this weekend, too!

And a bald eagle, to boot!

Baldcypress crown in fall color.

Huge baldcypress (*Taxodium distichum*) doing its fall thing in northern Florida.

Catchy title.

Fog and sun in forest

Fog in the flatwoods.

Top of a pine seedling with a small snake among the needles, looking at the camera.

Hitchhiker on one of the lab plants this morning.

Can't get enough of these fox squirrels.

Three deer look at the camera while standing in green grass underneath a pine overstory.

8 weeks post-fire, longleaf pine / wiregrass, north Florida.

Jealous!

1 minute time lapse of a-ci curve measurement on wiregrass (*Aristida beyrichiana*) in north Florida.

My institution doesn't put their name on most of those types of vehicles. That way when it's parked in front of a bar there's less chance of embarrassing consequences.

Kayaks, river, and clouds.

Rainbow river, Florida.

A group of people standing at the base of a large longleaf pine tree.

Students in my summer natural resources class with the Florida champion longleaf pine (*Pinus palustris*). On private property near Newberry, Florida. Students choose from field trips focused on private land management, ecosystem services, invasive species management, and ecosystem restoration.

Large diamondback rattlesnake obviously swollen from a recent meal.

A largish prey animal inside a larger diamondback rattlesnake. North Florida flatwoods.

It ran toward the tree and perched on the trunk for about 30 seconds.

Fox squirrel on longleaf pine tree in northern Florida.

Find the fox squirrel.

Nice!

Strong inference: he disproved H0 that the dog would immediately devour the cat.

Drosophyllum plants with leaf-traps fully covered with mucilage in a summer day (10 july) on bare, dry soils. How do they manage? We’re working on it.

Pine stand

Longleaf pine (*P. palustris*) / slash pine (*P. elliottii*) stand on a spodosol in N. Florida. Understory primarily wiregrass (*Aristida beyrichiana*), saw palmetto (*Serenoa repens*), gallberry (*Ilex glabra*). Prescribed fire every other year, it will burn again this summer.

Vintage black and white photo of an older man sitting outside a small wooden shack. Around him are the tools of his trade (spade, digging rod) and a box of lumpy resin.

I mentioned naval stores last week. Here’s another industrial use. Subfossilized resin from Agathis trees (#Araucariaceae) in New Zealand was prized for varnishes. Gum-diggers excavated tons of the stuff. 📷: An Old Gum Digger of Houhora, North Auckland, Archives of NZ CCBY2 #resin #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

a pixel art drawing of beavis and butthead with acfoc on their shirts Alt: Beavis and Butthead

Rock on, dark lord.

A thick grove of tall spruce trees in the late afternoon sun. Ground cover is mainly ferns and other low vegetation.

Today's forestry pic (running late), Sitka spruce trees on the Olympic Peninsula.
#forestry #trees #nature #washington #olympic

Open scallop with blue eyes located along the edges of its shell.

Scallop eyeing me after being pulled out of the Gulf of Mexico.

I'm not an expert but generally growing season burns are preferred for restoring and maintaining wiregrass and other understory plants. That's ~ start of thunderstorms in June until August-ish. Dormant season / winter burns I think are preferred for more difficult situations like high fuel load.

This stand is close to 100 years old.

Forest with burnt understory and smoke in background.

About 30 minutes post- prescribed fire. Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) in northern Florida.

If you're waiting on a reply, a peer review, or other effort from me--please be patient. I urgently left to document a developing forest die-off event more intense than any I've seen. No obvious biotic agents, dead & dying include multiple Pinus & Juniperus, many Quercus, & shrubs. #WhatKillsTrees

Large cavern with people for scale.

Subterranean holiday: Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky.

Same!