James 🗻🌾🇵🇸

But yeah these efforts are very exciting! These extreme environments call for outside the box methods

Oh yeah this is the stuff I would read, but more so it was the pay walled academic papers that were experimenting with the method and stuff like that I wanted to delve more into

Why thank you 😇

It’s exciting to help out on long term restoration data collection trying out multiple randomized restoration techniques to see if any are more beneficial and cost effective versus the other.

I don’t often get the chance to read literature since I’m not an academic and it’s hard to gain access to, but from what I remember when I was researching this restoration practice when I had access, was that this type of restoration would require such a long amount of time to show recovery.

It’s supposed to imitate natural conditions that shrubs provide in the arid conditions of the Mojave (shade, seed and water accumulation). In hopes that perennial shrubs would fill in and help heal the incursion.

The restoration approach is collecting plant material and then planting them into the ground in areas of disturbance. (it’s important that you collect from the same species so you don’t get a Frankenstein situation)

In the Mojave there is a ton of off highway vehicle damage, which results in soil compaction, shrub loss, and a loss of habitat. I started my career working in desert restoration and to this day I still think it’s one of the most interesting restoration practices I’ve encountered.

B. wrightii

Working with the dead (shrubs) this week

Oh hello

Looking for recent germinations

Current blooms in the Mojave

A very normal day

In my happy place (surrounded by Yucca)

Love having plots where they fire machine guns above me 😍😌

Office For The Day ❤️. I recommend all Feds to get out in the woods, even if burned over (there’s pine seedlings though!) and even if you are not in land management.

Southern Utah was fun

Frozen on plot :(

Field shenanigans

Mouthing swear words at the feral horses in the field

Once you have called disabled people a burden, you have facilitated the devaluation, dehumanization and death of disabled people.

Selection from Utah, Sequoia NP, Death Valley, and Rocky Mtn NP

Sweet sweet monsoonal wildflowers

I have missed the desert so much (even if it’s not my desert)

The cows took a few bites out of my transect line tape last night :/

Well to be fair I am not far from Nevada and Arizona

Utah!