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Fires and vegetation study

10/31/2015

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By: Apryle Craig

This summer, fires cut our field season short and threatened some of the vegetation plots we installed. While these possible impacts to our research were a concern, they were overshadowed by our concern to for lives, property, and livelihoods of the communities impacted. 

Since the fires subsided, I was able to assess the impacts of the fire to the study. Some sites were highly impacted, others remained untouched. Many of the fences remained in place but will need reinforcing. The sites that were impacted by fire can no longer be included in the study in the same way. The plants may grow differently in the burned areas compared to unburned areas. I may use these sites to study the impacts of grazing on a fire-impacted landscape. 

The natural world is always changing. It's one of the exciting and challenging facets of studying ecology.
Fence through dry wooded area with trees
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12/13/2019 04:10:05 pm

It is really important that we make surveys that address all of this. I mean, if we do not make sure that our ecosystem is holding up, then we may face unimaginable horrors in the future. It is hard to keep track of it all, but I really do feel like we can do it. As long as we all share the same determination, then nothing is impossible. Let us all aid this cause and make the world a better place.

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11/22/2023 01:57:46 am

Thank you for tthis

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