Tag: fire ecology
EOC 193: Wildfires to Wildflowers: Ildiko Polony and Eco-Activism
Listen to this episode in Apple Podcasts In this era of climate crisis and extinction crisis, it’s not hard to feel like there’s nothing we can do to stop these cascading and devastating global environmental trends. Some activists have taken ...
EOC 124: The Ecological Importance of High Intensity Forest Fires with Monica Bond
Listen to this episode in iTunes Today’s guest on the show is Monica Bond from the Wild Nature Institute. Monica was one of our first guests on the podcast - she was featured in episode 6 of the show. At ...
EOC 020: Fire Ecology and the Harvester Ant with Robin Verble-Pearson
Episode Summary: Today on the EOC podcast we're talking with Texas Tech University professor Robin Verble-Pearson. Robin was featured in our latest EOC film about the Texas Horned Lizard - she talks in the film about the relationship between harvester ...
The Texas Horned Lizard
Rachel Granberg is a recent masters graduate from Texas Tech University who’s research was focused on Texas horned lizard habitat loss and degradation in central Texas, where the species has experienced severe declines over the past 70 years. Habitat loss and ...
EOC 018: Texas Horned Lizard Research with Rachel Granberg
Episode Summary: In today's episode of the podcast we'll hear from Texas Horned Lizard expert Rachel Granberg. Rachel shares with us her vast knowledge of this fascinating little animal, and also talks about her experience working on the new EOC ...
Bluebirds in a post-wildfire landscape
A few weeks ago fellow Bluebird Man producer/director Neil Paprocki wrote a blog article about the installation of almost 40 new nestboxes along the Prairie Bluebird Trail. Much of this area burned last August in the Elk-complex fire and these ...
New Nestboxes for Bluebirds in Prairie
Yesterday was our first trip of the year to Al's Prairie Bluebird Trail along the South Fork of the Boise River. A good section of this trail was burned last August in the Elk-Complex fire resulting in the loss of ...
Wildfires: Revisiting the Birds of Prey Area
A few weeks ago I went to visit the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area where I conducted my Boise State University thesis research on wintering raptors. While there was unfortunately little chance of encountering a ...