Forget the cookie-cutter! We're learning there's no one-size-fits-all answer to what a Marbled Murrelet nest stand looks like. Keeps things interesting, right? 😉 #Conservation #MarbledMurrelet #DisturbanceEcology Photos courtesy of Cassidy Ruge

Erin Johnston has done it again! Oregon myrtlewood 😍 From the start of our friendship in the Peruvian Amazon 15 years ago, Erin has continually amazed me with science illustrations for projects I am working on. Now, to finish her shawl in our loving friendship exchange erinjohnstonart.com/about

Absolutely superb and important piece by Professors @stevelevitsky.bsky.social and @ryanenos.bsky.social The only way to fight authoritarianism is to fight together. Strongest institutions in the front. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

🔥 The wait is over! Season 3, Episode 1 of the Good Fire Podcast is LIVE! 🚨 Tune in now to dive into an insightful conversation Dr. Amy had with Vikki Preston and Monique Wynecoop about the role of Indigenous women in fire and the path to bringing fire back to the land.

“For the Karuk Tribe, Cal Fire will no longer hold regulatory or oversight authority over the burns and will instead act as a partner and consultant. The previous arrangement essentially amounted to one nation telling another nation what to do on its land — a violation of sovereignty.”

Please share: The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Democratic Staff, is surveying the impact of the Trump Admin’s mass firings of federal employees from science agencies. If you were terminated since 20 Jan 2025 please fill out this survey: democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

Appreciate Dartmouth for highlighting our recent work! Recognizing Indigenous rights in our environmental data is not only good for the communities whom the data pertains to, but also produces better science that is grounded in the expertise of the communities that steward these data relations.

"'Agencies have spent years recruiting and developing the next generation of public servants. By firing them en masse, this administration is throwing away the very talent that agencies need to function effectively in the years ahead,' [Everette] Kelley said."

We still believe that we can create something very powerful and impactful. Thank you @catrineinhorn.bsky.social @nytimes.com for reporting about our national nature assessment work that is “too important to die”

Monday morning vibes after working through the weekend....

For millennia, the Karuk people in Northern California have used fire to actively manage forests. Murphy Woodhouse and Bill Tripp join us to discuss how the tribe is training others in this practice.

It's not even noon yet, and it has been a day....

Old 🔥 in the lab, new 🔥 on the loom.

This, so much this.

Not even the mountain of emails I'm still digging my way out of could take away from the incredible week in Costa Rica at the Pacific Seabird Group and Waterbird Society joint meeting. Next up...the joint ORTWS and OSAF meeting. Then some serious focus time on writing, analysis (and weaving).

I am honoured to have a chapter in this beautiful book edited by Lara A. Jacobs a citizen of Muscogee (Creek) Nation. Availabe March 25th. My Chapter title: Pyroepistomology: Re-Claiming and Reciprocity osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/indigen...

When your forestry friends have a baby in late fall... The onset of a full term slowed down my weaving, but I did manage to finish this fall forest themed baby blanket just in time for the holidays.

Our team is back in the field again! There aren't too many late fall days in the Oregon coast range that look like this, so they took full advantage. 43 tree cores and several stump cross sections(!!!) Photos courtesy of Cassidy Ruge

We (= Dept. of Forest Ecosystems and Society, College of Forestry, Oregon State) are hiring a TT faculty member specializing in Indigenous Knowledge in forest, ecosystem, and cultural stewardship. #indigenousknowledge #TEK #traditionalecologicalknowledge jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/162...

And the real question, will this one make it into the tree ring record?

Proposal procrastination at it's finest