Kantor: Forest Disappearance

Kantor: Forest Disappearance

Sylvia Kantor writes for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Rocky Mountain Research Station’s “Science You Can Use Bulletin” about an increase in cases in which forest resilience and recovery are pushed beyond a breaking point by wildfire. As a result of continued severe...
Watts: Mountains to the Sea

Watts: Mountains to the Sea

Andrea Watts, our correspondent in the U.S. Forest Service, now writes for the Rocky Mountain Research Station (@usfs_rmrs)—for example on how to predict how many trees died in a forest fire. She still writes for the Pacific Northwest Research Station (@usfs_pnwrs),...
Watts: Amphibians! Bafraid of Bsal

Watts: Amphibians! Bafraid of Bsal

Bsal is what salamander-savvy biologists call Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans. Andrea Watts (@WattsInTheWoods) writes about the fungus that is threatening amphibians worldwide. In Science Findings from the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station,...

Watts: Live Streaming

Small waterways have idiosyncracies, writes Andrea Watts. In an article in Science Findings, for the U.S. Forest Service, Andrea describes a collaborative study by academic and government scientists to find out how local variabilities in streams affect trout habitats....