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Restoring Oak Habitats in Southern Oregon and Northern California: A Guide for Private Landowners

Klamath Bird Observatory and Lomakatsi Restoration Project, 2020

An exciting opportunity exists for landowners and conservation partners to work together to restore native oak systems and their diverse wildlife communities. This guide provides a history of oak habitats, detailed conservation guidelines to restore oak habitats, and step-by-step instructions for monitoring birds to track the return of wildlife following oak restoration.

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Nature’s Phoenix: Fire As Medicine | Chad Hanson and Frank Kanawha Lake

Science catches up with Indigenous wisdom breaking open settler colonial myths about fire as only destructive and burned landscapes as useless. “…fire is key to optimizing forest vitality and biodiversity.” The merging of these two ways of knowing has signaled “the end to our misguided policy of fire suppression at all costs, and the beginning of an era of building fire-resilient communities with a new relationship to one of nature’s most elemental and fearful forces. With fire ecologists Chad Hanson and Frank Kanawha Lake.”

How to, roundwood mortise and tenon, timber framed shed part 2

Demonstration of how to mark out and cut a mortise and tenon in roundwood. 

Nature's internet: how trees talk to each other in a healthy forest | Suzanne Simard

Scientific research shows the interconnectedness of life in the forest ecosystem. Go beneath the forest floor to learn how trees are communicating and exchanging resources. Going beyond the simple view of a forest as a resource to be exploited, this work presents the forest as a complex network of life. Simard’s examination of the relationships that make up the complexity of nature present compelling support for the idea that “We are all one.”

How Wolves Change Rivers

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." - John Muir
When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable "trophic cascade" occurred. What is a trophic cascade and how exactly do wolves change rivers? George Monbiot explains in this movie remix.

Marla Spivak: Why bees are disappearing

Honeybees have thrived for 50 million years, each colony 40 to 50,000 individuals coordinated in amazing harmony. So why, seven years ago, did colonies start dying en masse? Marla Spivak reveals four reasons which are interacting with tragic consequences. This is not simply a problem because bees pollinate a third of the world's crops. Could this incredible species be holding up a mirror for us?

Electricity of Life

New views from modern biology of the electrical interactions between bees and flowers. For both the pollen-harvesting process and the efficiency of foraging behavior, static electricity makes a bee's life easier. | Alex Fournier.