Strauss Ecological

Thanks! I enjoy all your yard cam footage!

a young bull elk looks at the camera, the dark brown animal stands out against the background of yellow grass

Getting to see elk along the lower Rogue River this time of year

green trees in the backdrop with misty fog, a dark gree fir tree in the foreground has a bald eagle perched on top, its white head looking upward as it calls

been working on the lower Rogue and getting to see cool wildlife like this bald eagle calling from atop a Douglas fir along the river.

do what makes you happy Martyn, I know you have no problems getting out into the real world and finding interesting stories. There's some limitations with this platform but, imo it's better than the other social media sites that exist only to extract data and push commercials.

Dark brown scratches into whitish bark of an alders tree. Several scratches resemble the letters H I

Dark brown scratches into whitish bark of an alders tree. Hand placed on trunk of tree to show scale of scratches.

Local black bear says "Hi"

Thanks!
This is from where I live in OR, but I see you're by the Mukwonago River and I have relatives near that part of WI. Next time I visit will have to come check out your oaks.

Oak woodland/savanna scene. Oak trees with orange and brown leaves and sunlit yellowing grass, the angle of sunlight is low suggesting late afternoon.

happy fall folks!

Firefighters question leaders’ role in ICE raid near Bear Gulch Fire - High Country News Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities.

Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities, shares Stateline.

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Get to know the American kestrel - High Country News This small falcon faces an existential crisis. Can nest boxes help?

This small falcon faces an existential crisis. Can nest boxes help?

Photographing black oystercatchers is fun, but I've never been fortunate enough to capture an image of a baby. Check out the great shot including an egg below.

In Southern Oregon, teens get their hands dirty and get paid to learn about the forest The Lomakatsi Youth Ecological Forestry Training and Employment Program gives high school students hands-on experience in ecological restoration. Despite federal funding challenges, the program has thrived this year.

The program, which launched in 2012, teaches ecological restoration, forestry, botany and more — all while paying students to work in the field.

Fantastic! Awesome job pulling broom, and cheers to @pfriembeer.bsky.social for rewarding good work!

www.thedailycourier.com newspaper with story and photos of Rogue River Cleanup

Thanks! We even got dyer's woad quotes in the local paper :-)

Volunteers in bright yellow vests walk along a sandy beach with trash bags, a bridge over the river is in the background.

Big thanks to all the volunteers that helped remove trash and invasive weeds like dyers woad for the Rogue River Cleanup!

Besides being a great tracker/naturalist, Martyn is a great musician, check out his latest

I don't think there's any block lists or anything like that here. It's not as algorithm driven, so folks may just not be seeing your posts.
The wildlife trail cam community here has lots of good interactions I have noticed.

I put a hashtag for ecology and wildlife in my profile and got added to one of those group lists. So I have lots of followers interested in Ecology but not tons of interaction necessarily. But I haven't been using the site a lot. When I like and reply to others I get some clicks. All that said...

Next Saturday is Rogue River Cleanup! Volunteers will remove invasive weeds and trash from along the river, come join us.
www.stream-smart.com/rogue-river-...

low angle view of wildflowers, bright red Warrior's plumes, yellow buttercups and pink shooting stars.

low view of green and yellow Warrior's plumes, red ones in background as well as some trees.

Cathedral Hills in Grants Pass, OR has amazing wildflowers displays this time of year. I get enamored with the Pedicularis densiflora blooms, which are typically red, but there's a small patch of yellow ones.

Beavers reintroduced to land near Vesper Meadow to restore southwest Oregon wetlands Project Beaver worked with the Bureau of Land Management to restore the large rodents to the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.

​In February, five beavers were reintroduced to Vesper Meadow in southwest Oregon to restore wetland ecosystems. Over the past six years, volunteers prepared the habitat by planting willows and building structures to emulate beaver dams.

really cool logo! Not sure if they do small batch stickers, but Logan Design in Grants Pass does good work.

a forest scene with native manzanita and oaks draped with lichens, but green Scotch broom shrubs over run the understory. Photo taken by Uprooter

a forest scene where the invasive Scotch broom has been removed, leaving behind native manzanita shrubs and oak trees. Photo from Uprooter

Props to the volunteers that showed up to remove invasive Scotch broom from oak habitat along the Rogue River. These before/after photos are from the folks at Uprooter who make Weed Wrench tools we used to pull the broom. Uprooter organized this Weed Wrangle event, thanks to everyone who helped out!

I was recently asked if I had ever captured wolves howling on camera. This is one of my all-time favorite captures.

poster for Weed Wrangle March 15th 11am-1pm Griffin Park Nature Trail in Grants Pass. RSVP at TheUprooter@gmail.com (541)226-9872

Come remove weeds from Griffin Park (500 Griffin Lane Grants Pass, OR 97527) Sat March 15th starting at 11am.

Wildlife crossing funding on pause amid federal freeze Federal funding that was supposed to be used to build a wildlife crossing spanning I-5 south of Ashland has been paused amid a larger review of transportation grants by the Trump Administration..

www.ijpr.org/environment-...

Local nonprofits grapple with loss of millions for wildfire mitigation - Rogue Valley Times Regional organizations that provide wildfire mitigation and ecological recovery are grappling with millions lost under the recent federal spending freeze.

Federal funding cuts are costing jobs, hurting our forests, and our safety
rv-times.com/2025/03/03/l...

Meet the Passionate Advocates Trying to Save Western Monarch Butterflies • The Revelator A network of advocates is doing everything they can to mitigate the dangers and unravel mysteries about monarch movements and behavior.

It's easy to feel disempowered right now. But one person can make a difference. Read about these Western monarch conservationists for inspiration!

#WesternMonarch #conservation #climatechange #threatenedspecies #XercesSociety #monarchadvocates #pollinators
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Southern Oregon farmers and ranchers hit by federal funding freeze In his drive to slash government spending, President Donald Trump has frozen or terminated millions of dollars in federal agriculture grant contracts. This is leaving farmers, ranchers, and landowners...

This is a shame. Bel Avenir farm has done a great job of educating local groups about sustainable farming, removing weeds and restoring native plants to riparian areas.
www.opb.org/article/2025...

Happy Linus Pauling Day

Spring can be a good time for pulling invasive weeds, check out this site to see if there's a volunteer weed pull in your area:
www.weedwrangle.org