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This very cooperative Damselfly would occasionally fly on me, landing on my hat, shoulder, etc. However, he would return to his perch and I could resume my sketch.
Color Studies in the studio of the artist Paula Heisen, Long Island City NY
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Captured in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Hasselblad FlexBody. August 2007. 80/2.8 Planar. Ilford Pan F+.
Tip # 3: make time to workout. Get the blood flowing to your brain; plus if you're a fit and healthy person chances are you won't get sick very often and will be able to make it to class (always important to making good grades!).
The Wall Canyon Wilderness Study Area (WSA) is located within Washoe County, in northwest Nevada. The WSA includes 46,305 acres of BLM lands and surrounds 1,220 acres of private inholdings. Cedarville, California is 25 miles northwest, Susanville, California is 70 miles southwest and Reno, Nevada is 120 miles south.
The eastern boundary is formed by the Wall Canyon and Pinto Springs Roads and private lands. The northern boundary is formed by private lands and the western boundary is formed by a combination of private lands, the Devine Spring Road and the Packsaddle Spring Road. All of the boundary roads are narrow, infrequently maintained dirt and gravel roads.
The WSA includes approximately 15 percent of the Hays Canyon mountain range. It encompasses portions of the top of the range and the eastern slopes. The topography and vegetation are typical of mid-elevation Great Basin mountainous areas with abundant canyons, buttes, rims as well as upland benches and wide valley floors all dominated by sagebrush communities. Elevations range from 5300 to 7340 feet.
Photo by Bob Wick, BLM.
BLM using satellites to study fishers in southern Oregon
By Toshio Suzuki, April 14, 2016
Capturing a fisher in an Oregon forest can be tricky work.
First off, there aren’t many of them.
Secondly, the cat-sized mammal sports retractable claws and a heart rate that can climb to 300 beats per minute when agitated — double a high rate for humans — and like most animals in the wild, they will defend themselves from capture, even if for scientific research.
“They are carnivores and they have amazing capacities of strength and endurance,” said Katie Moriarty, a research wildlife biologist for the U.S. Forest Service.
Moriarty is one of several partners helping the Bureau of Land Management in a first-of-its-kind research project: using GPS collars and satellites to track fisher movements in Oregon.
The end goal is to establish a baseline of habitat information for a species that has been in decline since the trapping and timber industries entered the Western landscape in the 1800s.
In 2014, the West Coast fisher received a “proposed threatened” status by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; but just this week the agency announced the fisher did not warrant listing under the Endangered Species Act.
If land managers like the BLM can learn specific habitat characteristics, they will then be able to make more informed decisions and even potentially figure out why the member of the weasel family is in decline, said Bruce Hollen, a wildlife biologist for the BLM in Oregon and Washington.
“Something about their habitat is affecting their ability to disperse,” said Hollen. “We don't know how come their populations have stayed so small.”
Adult fishers can weigh about 3 to 13 pounds, and can be about 2.5 to 4 feet long. They eat seemingly anything smaller than them that can be discovered in the forest: birds, squirrels, mice, reptiles, insects, vegetation and fruit. They also have the unique ability to hunt and eat porcupines.
Porcupines love to eat Oregon trees and are the reason why there were several efforts to reintroduce fishers to the southern Oregon Cascade Range from the early 1960s to early 1980s.
Those reintroduced fishers were mostly from British Columbia, but also Minnesota, according to a 2003 study published in the international journal Biological Conservation.
Presently, there are only two known fisher populations in Oregon. One is native and one is the reintroduced population. Both home ranges for the distinct fisher populations are slivers in the southwestern portion of the state. Research data now indicates that native fishers have crossed the I-5 boundary from the west and made it into the historic range of the non-native population.
While wildlife biologists agree that any mixed breeding would be interesting, it isn’t always as easy as that for territorial animals.
Moriarty, who works at the Pacific Northwest Research Station, related the moving fishers to a typical American street: “You might be able to walk into somebody’s yard but you won’t be able to live there.”
Chicken meat bait is what draws the curious fishers into the multi-compartment traps. Once inside and anesthetized, the biologists have 30 minutes to affix collars and conduct a number of tests.
Blood, hair and tissue samples are taken for DNA testing. Feet are measured and a tooth is extracted to determine age. The wildlife biologists even check for fleas and ticks during the evaluation, all while monitoring the animal’s temperature.
“You only get them in your hands every so often, so you want to measure as much as you can,” explained Matt Broyles, a BLM wildlife biologist in Klamath Falls contributing to the ongoing research.
Out of the seven fishers captured last October, three adult females got the GPS collars and two adult males were fitted with regular radio telemetry collars. Juveniles were released. The females got priority for the new equipment because they tend to stay within the home range, while males “can decide to go for a long wander,” said Hollen.
“We really want to see what they are doing within their home range — how they use the landscape in that Klamath Falls area,” he said.
The GPS units provided real-time data points every 15 minutes, allowing the team to discern resting sites and den locations inside trees.
So far, the wildlife team, which includes specialists from Oregon State University and the Rocky Mountain Laboratories, is very optimistic about the research study that runs through this July.
“The benefits are exponentially phenomenal,” said Moriarty.
tsuzuki@blm.gov
Photos and videos captured between March of 2015 and April of 2016. All photos by BLM.
At the hawker centre. Doing homework. I get the feeling there isn't a lot of private space to be had.
Using a microscope, incoming freshman Zainab Syed gets an up-close look at California grunion embryos — seeing the grunions' heartbeat. The Biology Undergraduate Research Scholars Training (BURST) program presented the summer session as part of new student orientation. Photo by Matt Gush
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A new study claims to be the first to find ‘definitive evidence’ of an association between brain inflammation and major depression.
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Late yesterday afternoon we were out at White Sands National Monument, where occasional gusts of wind created white-out conditions.
UCL SSEES moved to new premises in Taviton Street in October 2005. The school encompasses the four departments of East European Languages & Culture, History, Russian and Social Sciences, and five interdisciplinary research centres as well as a Russian Cinema Research Group and a language unit
The building, which was designed by Short & Associates, features a groundbreaking hybrid environmental strategy: it is naturally ventilated year-round and ‘downdraught cooling’ comes into play during warmer periods via the central lightwell – an extremely energy-efficient method of maintaining comfort within the urban heat island.
he library of the UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies (SSEES) has been highly commended in the 2007 Library Design Awards.
The library is part of the department’s premises in Taviton Street and opened in August 2005. It houses one of the leading teaching and research collections in the UK for the study of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. It holds approximately 250,000 printed volumes on site, an extensive archive, a multimedia room and computing facilities for SSEES staff and students.