Student Emmy from Nat’l Academy of Television Arts & Sciences!!!
Disturbance HD – (19:08)
This is a student-Emmy award-winning film about the politics and ecology of fire in the Northern Rockies
Black-Backed Woodpecker (1:03)
This excerpt from Distrubance showcases the black-backed woodpecker as it pursues beetle larvae in burned trees.
Yellowstone Fire Pics
I’m finally posting some pics from the Yellowstone fire. This fire burned slowly at first, but finally hit some lodgepole stands that hadn’t burned in ~150 years. Once it hit that, it was pushed by 20 mph winds. This is a significant stand replacement fire, but alas, lodgepole is adapted to this. It’s the park [...]
Torching Trees & Heated Public Meetings
Although the fire puts on a hell of a show at night (see photos) and is obscured by smoke in the day, the amount of stand replacing fire appears to comprise little of the visible front country. I’m really looking forward to the changes in that landscape over the next 5 years. I’m going [...]
