The Metolius Preserve
Metolius Field Station
Solar showers, Metolius Field Station
Understory plant monitoring, post-thinning at Metolius Preserve
Monitoring beetle snags, Metolius Preserve
soil identification, Metolius Preserve
Glaze Meadow
Spencer Curtis uses laser to stem map second growth near Glaze Meadow
Darin Stringer (Integrated Resource Management) adds a GPS point to Glaze Meadow stem plots
Camp Polk Meadow
Installing willow and dogwood in a new meander bend at Camp Polk Meadow
Michelle Elpi tills a plot in preparation for solarization at Camp Polk Meadow
Solarization: Using renewable energy to sterilize a seed bank
David Hanlon clears cheatgrass with a plow (solarized plot to the left)
Plowed, solarized, and herbicide-treated plots were reseeded (fall 08)
Plowed plot, left & solarized plot, right in fall 2008
Plowed, left, and solarized, right spring 2009 -- after weeding, note all the natives that remain!
Camp Polk Meadow wetlands survey
Alison Purcell, l, (Humboldt State) offers her invertebrate expertise
Mike Logan identifies stream invertebrates
The Jake Place
The Jake Place, from Little Rattlesnake Butte
Measuring stream cross sections, Jake Place
David Dobkin (High Desert Ecological Research Institute),r, contemplates Jake stream vegetation with students & Otto Keller's dog
Redband trout monitoring, Jake Place: Will removing cattle improve fish habitat?
Redband, post id chip implant
Jeff Cooney (COCC) displays a montane vole trapped at the Jake Place - Will removing cattle affect small vertebrates?
Jake Place - Historic
dragonflies, Jake Place
gopher snake & montane vole, BLM downstream from Jake
Spadefoot toad, Jake Place
Course Life
Katya works on her natural history notebook
Assembling a beetle trap
”Study Hall“ Metolius Preserve
Ron Reuter lectures on soils
Students examine stream inverts, Camp Polk
Students, 2006a
Students, 2006b
2007 Course
2008 Course
2009 course
