The station is busy this week!
We filled up over the weekend: Granite Bay Flycasters stayed for some stream ecology training & a UCD Field Ecology Methods class visited. This week is dominated by school kid visits--240 7th-graders are cycling through, & a Forest Charter School group is camping out.
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Saturday, May 21, 2005
MAPS link.
I've added a link to our MAPS bird census data. This study involves mist-netting & banding birds at sites along Sagehen Creek every spring since 1992. This year, the federal funding dried up & we are anxiously seeking replacement funds to keep this valuable long-term monitoring project alive.
This place is so bizarre--the sun is out again & it's in the 70's!
The chilly, relentless rain suddenly stopped & the stream has dropped a little. At it's peak, it spilled out of its banks & still hit 3'6" on the board--the highest we've seen since we arrived in 2001.
Looking downstream toward the diversion weir.
The stream height gauge awash.
This place is so bizarre--the sun is out again & it's in the 70's!
The chilly, relentless rain suddenly stopped & the stream has dropped a little. At it's peak, it spilled out of its banks & still hit 3'6" on the board--the highest we've seen since we arrived in 2001.
Looking downstream toward the diversion weir.
The stream height gauge awash.
Friday, May 20, 2005
Obituary for Joseph G. Hall
Dr. Joseph G. Hall, Ph.D, a professor, father, husband and naturalist, died Tuesday, May 17, 2005, at his home in Grand Junction, Colorado where he had lived since 1983. He was 81.
Dr. Hall, who preferred to be known as Joe, served as a role model for many whose lives he touched, including his daughters, his students, his sons-in-law, and his grandchildren. He was well known for his humility and witty sense of humor.
He is survived by a large family, including his wife, Betty Allen Hall; his brother, Bill Hall, of Moscow, Idaho; his daughters, Sally Hall, of Stow, Massachusetts; Connie Davis, of Niwot, Colorado; Peggy Link, of Grand Junction, Colorado; Lisa Kearsley, of Flagstaff, Arizona; and 10 grandsons.
Joe was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Rufus B. Hall and Frances Ebersole Hall. He was preceded in death by his parents and his sister, Margaret C. Hall.
He developed his love for the outdoors in his boyhood years at Willowbranch Camp, in Chillicothe, Ohio. Between his university years at Princeton, during World War II, he served in the U.S. Army. He did his graduate work at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he met his wife, Betty. They were married in Boulder in 1950.
They moved to Berkeley, California, where both continued graduate work at the University of California, Betty in botany and Joe in wildlife management. He received his doctorate in 1956. He taught zoology at San Francisco State University from 1957-1982. During his professional life, he was elected a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences and won several awards for his photographs of wildlife. His research included beaver in California, but his main love was his study of Kaibab squirrels on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. His book, Linea, is a popular natural history story of one of these squirrels. In later years, Joe studied otters in Grand Teton National Park.
During the final years of his life, the polio he contracted during his Army years returned, gradually diminishing his ability to enjoy the outdoors and his volunteer services at the Museum of Western Colorado and the local Audubon Society.
A memorial service will be held May 29, 2005, at 4 p.m. at the First Congregational Church, 1425 N. Fifth St., Grand Junction. The family requests donations in lieu of flowers, to The Nature Conservancy, 4245 N. Fairfax Dr. Suite 100, Arlington, VA 22203-1606 or to the First Congregational Church, 1425 N. 5th St., Grand Junction, CO 81501.
Dr. Joseph G. Hall, Ph.D, a professor, father, husband and naturalist, died Tuesday, May 17, 2005, at his home in Grand Junction, Colorado where he had lived since 1983. He was 81.
Dr. Hall, who preferred to be known as Joe, served as a role model for many whose lives he touched, including his daughters, his students, his sons-in-law, and his grandchildren. He was well known for his humility and witty sense of humor.
He is survived by a large family, including his wife, Betty Allen Hall; his brother, Bill Hall, of Moscow, Idaho; his daughters, Sally Hall, of Stow, Massachusetts; Connie Davis, of Niwot, Colorado; Peggy Link, of Grand Junction, Colorado; Lisa Kearsley, of Flagstaff, Arizona; and 10 grandsons.
Joe was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Rufus B. Hall and Frances Ebersole Hall. He was preceded in death by his parents and his sister, Margaret C. Hall.
He developed his love for the outdoors in his boyhood years at Willowbranch Camp, in Chillicothe, Ohio. Between his university years at Princeton, during World War II, he served in the U.S. Army. He did his graduate work at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he met his wife, Betty. They were married in Boulder in 1950.
They moved to Berkeley, California, where both continued graduate work at the University of California, Betty in botany and Joe in wildlife management. He received his doctorate in 1956. He taught zoology at San Francisco State University from 1957-1982. During his professional life, he was elected a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences and won several awards for his photographs of wildlife. His research included beaver in California, but his main love was his study of Kaibab squirrels on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. His book, Linea, is a popular natural history story of one of these squirrels. In later years, Joe studied otters in Grand Teton National Park.
During the final years of his life, the polio he contracted during his Army years returned, gradually diminishing his ability to enjoy the outdoors and his volunteer services at the Museum of Western Colorado and the local Audubon Society.
A memorial service will be held May 29, 2005, at 4 p.m. at the First Congregational Church, 1425 N. Fifth St., Grand Junction. The family requests donations in lieu of flowers, to The Nature Conservancy, 4245 N. Fairfax Dr. Suite 100, Arlington, VA 22203-1606 or to the First Congregational Church, 1425 N. 5th St., Grand Junction, CO 81501.
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
On a sad note, we just received word that Joe Hall passed away. Joe did his Ph.D. work at Sagehen during the 50's on "Willow and aspen in the ecology of beaver on Sagehen Creek". His health deteriorated in recent years due to complications of polio contracted while in the army in his youth.
Here's a picture of Joe tagging a beaver at Sagehen in 1973:
Here's a picture of Joe tagging a beaver at Sagehen in 1973:
Thursday, May 12, 2005
The "lifers" (researchers who will be here all season) are starting to arrive. Yesterday, Elise Ferree organized a work party to remove & stack some of the downed trees & slash that came down this winter around the buildings & paths. Gary Roller's crew pitched right in & even ran a chainsaw for the bigger pieces.
Thanks to Elise, Gary, Justin, Laura & Ann for this great help cleaning up camp!
Thanks to Elise, Gary, Justin, Laura & Ann for this great help cleaning up camp!
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Well, we suffered a setback with our Lahontan Cutthroat Trout fish study.
Everything was going swimmingly, so to speak. Despite dire predictions, the LCT's over-wintered in the Fish house channel without a hitch & as the water warmed & sped up, they even looked like they might be considering a spawn. Then "the beast" arrived: a large rainbow trout somehow jumped into the constricted channel; the next day, the LCTs simply vanished en-masse.
Apparently, a big fish can have this effect, causing the other fish to panic & suicidally leap out onto the shore to get away. We found only one of them--along with two browns & a brook trout it had leaped over the first channel blockage & into the secondary screen where the force of the water held them all until dead. This is the first time we've ever found a fish in the screen.
A couple days later, we found the big rainbow trout in the space between the screens where he had apparently exhausted himself trying to escape. I returned him to the channel, but he died the next day.
Everything was going swimmingly, so to speak. Despite dire predictions, the LCT's over-wintered in the Fish house channel without a hitch & as the water warmed & sped up, they even looked like they might be considering a spawn. Then "the beast" arrived: a large rainbow trout somehow jumped into the constricted channel; the next day, the LCTs simply vanished en-masse.
Apparently, a big fish can have this effect, causing the other fish to panic & suicidally leap out onto the shore to get away. We found only one of them--along with two browns & a brook trout it had leaped over the first channel blockage & into the secondary screen where the force of the water held them all until dead. This is the first time we've ever found a fish in the screen.
A couple days later, we found the big rainbow trout in the space between the screens where he had apparently exhausted himself trying to escape. I returned him to the channel, but he died the next day.
Tuesday, May 03, 2005
The road is open!
We're suffering a bizarre case of vehicle melt-down that is lingering like a bad cold. Most recently, the tractor starter broke so we had to dig out the road by hand--thanks to JP & Wendy for the help!
The snow is vanishing fast around the field station; there's currently about 50% ground coverage. Today we had a dumpster delivered & propane is on the way tomorrow, so we're ready for the spring field season to begin--researchers & students begin arriving this weekend after delaying their start dates until the ground opened up.
We're suffering a bizarre case of vehicle melt-down that is lingering like a bad cold. Most recently, the tractor starter broke so we had to dig out the road by hand--thanks to JP & Wendy for the help!
The snow is vanishing fast around the field station; there's currently about 50% ground coverage. Today we had a dumpster delivered & propane is on the way tomorrow, so we're ready for the spring field season to begin--researchers & students begin arriving this weekend after delaying their start dates until the ground opened up.
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