2010 Climate Change and Natural Resource Management International Seminar

Sagehen had an interesting Forest Service group through yesterday.

The 2010 Climate Change and Natural Resource Management International Seminar
brings folks from around the world to Washington D.C. & California to study climate change issues at multiple levels of government. From the website:

The seminar is designed to stimulate interaction and learning on a broad spectrum of issues related to climate change and natural resource management. Through field site visits, instruction, participant presentations and facilitated discussions participants will learn about alternative management techniques, institutional responses, adaptive strategies, and mitigation measures for responding to the impacts of climate change.

Participants yesterday came from the following countries:

Thailand
Uganda
Guyana
Republic of Bolivia
Republic of Colombia
Kenya
Zambia
Bhutan
Republic of Indonesia
Republic of India
Kyrgyzstan
Kazakhstan
Mali
Russia
Jordan
Tanzania
Cameroon
Greece
Paraguay
Nepal
Democratic Republic of Congo
Ghana
Ecuador

Sagehen Forest Project

The Sagehen Forest Project is gaining momentum, with a group of interested stakeholders joining together May 12, 2010 to discuss working collaboratively to design the treatment strategy to be used to restore forest resiliency to the Sagehen basin.

Future meetings will focus on the specifics of these treatments.

The effort has a new blog to share information about the project. Notes & presentations from the first meeting will be posted this week.

Adventures Among Ants.

Sagehen researcher Mark Moffett has a new book out, "Adventures Among Ants: a Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions".

Sagehen's slave-making Polyergus breviceps feature prominently.

Along the way, Moffett proposes a new hypothesis about the origin of slavery in ants & documents parallel trends for ants and humans between the size of a society and its complexity, among other fascinating new scientific content in the book.

Read his blog or watch interviews.

Argh!

High winds last week knocked a bunch of trees onto our access road & onto the Leopold Cabin roof that we only recently replaced. How does it know?!