“Smokestorm” over Cascadia
As anyone living in the Pacific Northwest knows intimately, the past two weeks have been incredibly hazy throughout our region as smoke from wildfires burning in British …
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The Cold
Snow finally arrived to Environmental Learning Center (December 4th to be exact) and the days since have been crisp and cold, transforming the landscape around us. The sunny, clear …
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A Question of Scale: Plant Phenology Across Time and Space
By Joe Loviska, graduate student in the Institute’s 15th cohort. March 20, 2016. I’ve been keeping an eye on the western flowering dogwood (Cornus nuttallii) out in …
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Fall Count: Environmental Learning Center Observations from September through November
By Joe Loviska, Graduate Phenology Assistant Phenology is the study of how plants, animals, and other biotic organisms change with the cycle of the seasons. As the graduate …
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Cliff Mass explains Diablo Lake area weather
We were very excited to have Cliff Mass as one of our instructors for the 2010 Northwest Naturalists Retreat, and then thrilled when he posted a piece …
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