Saturday, December 17, 2005
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
The large hollow pine tree that has been overhanging the Library & keeping us awake at night is finally gone thanks to arborist Bruce Pennington.Bruce also generously donated a badly needed wood chipper to the station, allowing us to create mulch from our numerous slash piles. We are already using the chips to cover muddy roads, paths & parking areas around the buildings, helping to knock down dust & muddy footprints indoors while reducing fire hazard around the station.
Monday, December 12, 2005
There's a great article about A.R.C.--Sagehen's outreach program--in the most recent issue of the UCNRS Transect.
Here's a really great bit of news: the entire 8,100 acre Sagehen basin was just officially designated as Experimental Forest by the Washington office of the USDA Forest Service.
The basin has been managed for research since Sagehen Creek Field Station's inception in the early 1950's. This new designation, however, effectively expands our permit area & ties us closer to the research arm of the Forest Service, opening up new opportunities, providing forest managers with future decision-making tools, advertising our 50+ years of research data & highlighting Sagehen's potential for new research projects. It also creates a potentially more secure future for research in the basin.
Sagehen is the first new Experimental Forest in over 40 years. You can read several articles about the designation on our publications page.
The basin has been managed for research since Sagehen Creek Field Station's inception in the early 1950's. This new designation, however, effectively expands our permit area & ties us closer to the research arm of the Forest Service, opening up new opportunities, providing forest managers with future decision-making tools, advertising our 50+ years of research data & highlighting Sagehen's potential for new research projects. It also creates a potentially more secure future for research in the basin.
Sagehen is the first new Experimental Forest in over 40 years. You can read several articles about the designation on our publications page.
Jeff & I just returned from our early winter vacation to find the station in great shape under the attention of our winter caretakers. This winter at Sagehen will be downright sociable, with several additional people living out here in our newly winterized spaces for the first time.
JP's girlfriend Wendy will be living here full-time this year, helping JP look after the station during our absences.
Sagehen is providing housing to Brandon Schwartz, the USDA Forest Service Avalanche Forecaster this season--our way of supporting a valuable informational service to the outdoor community.
Lyla Hunt is also staying on for part or all of the winter. Lyla is one of the fish researchers; she will be helping us out with archival data & metadata input funded by the UCNRS.
JP's girlfriend Wendy will be living here full-time this year, helping JP look after the station during our absences.
Sagehen is providing housing to Brandon Schwartz, the USDA Forest Service Avalanche Forecaster this season--our way of supporting a valuable informational service to the outdoor community.
Lyla Hunt is also staying on for part or all of the winter. Lyla is one of the fish researchers; she will be helping us out with archival data & metadata input funded by the UCNRS.
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