Wolverine update!

An update on the Sagehen Wolverine. Here's a video from the SPI wildlife biologist who tracks him in the Tahoe National Forest.

You can also read the recent article in Discover Magazine.

Jeff's orientation talk for Sagehen visitors.

A visitor recorded Jeff's orientation talk...

Earthwatch caterpillars

Learn about Dr. Lee Dyer's Earthwatch caterpillar-climate change project at Sagehen that brings high school students into the field to help the University of Nevada at Reno scientists with their research.

Project sponsored by the Durfee Foundation.

Jeff introduces Sagehen to the Aldo Leopold Foundation

Jeff presents to OBFS

Last week, we attended the annual meeting of the Organization of Biological Field Stations held in Bodega Bay, CA where our A.R.C. Program received the Human Diversity award.

Here's a video of Jeff's presentation to the attendees on the topic of "Adapting to a Changing Mission". It explains the overarching philosophy of decision-making at Sagehen since our arrival 10 years ago.

The Last Self-Reproducing Lahontan Cutthroat Trout in the Truckee River Basin

The Last Self-Reproducing Lahontan Cutthroat Trout in the Truckee River Basin from F. Felix on Vimeo.
August 20, 2009: For Sagehen Speaker Series #27, Gary Scoppetone of the USGS talks about the past, present & future LCT recovery program at Independence Lake.

More information about LCT research and outreach at Sagehen.

Black Bear Research in Sagehen Basin

Black Bear Research in Sagehen Basin from F. Felix on Vimeo.

When we made this, our first Sagehen documentary, free web video was still pretty restricted; you couldn't put up longer content like this, and the quality was bad. Rather than breaking it into short chunks or creating six different, buggy file resolutions and formats for PC and Mac, we decided to distribute this program via download and DVD through Amazon and Createspace.

Now you can watch it on-line for the first time.

June, 2007: CA Dept. of Fish & Game researchers in California's Sagehen Creek Basin struggle to outsmart the black bears, hoping to GPS-collar them for further behavior studies...but the bears have other ideas.

Still photos and filmmakers blog.
Learn more or order DVDs.
More videos about Sagehen bears.
Sagehen bear news.

Truckee Talks segment

The Sagehen Forest Project from F. Felix on Vimeo.
Jeff Brown, Malcolm North & Scott Conway talk to Maia Schneider about the Sagehen Forest Project underway in the Sagehen Experimental Forest.

More information on the project blog at http://sagehenforest.blogspot.com/

Hummingbird research at Sagehen.

July 1, 2009: Chris Clark discusses his fascinating research into hummingbird courtship displays that include mysterious sounds that are not vocalizations.


Hummingbird research at Sagehen from F. Felix on Vimeo.

Here's a short video from Chris introducing his research:

Sagehen Pine Martens

August 23, 2007: For Sagehen Summer Speaker Series #18, Dr. Bill Zielinsky of the US Forest Service PSW discusses past & upcoming American marten research in Sagehen basin. He also discusses how forest management practice influences marten habitat.

Past & future pine marten research at Sagehen from F. Felix on Vimeo.

Katie Moriarty talks weasels.

August 7, 2008: For Sagehen Speaker Series #22, researcher Katie Moriarty discusses her work on martens in the Sagehen basin. She also discusses other Sierran predators, including the big surprise that turned up on her camera trap on February 28, 2008.

Moriarty, K. M., American Marten Distributions over a 28 Year Period: Relationships with Landscape Change in Sagehen Creek Experimental Forest, California, USA. 2009, OSU. 108 pp. [PDF]

Moriarty, K.M., W. J. Zeilinski, A. G. Gonzales, T. E. Dawson, K. M. Boatner, C. A. Wilson, F. V. Schlexer, K. L. Pilgrim, J. P. Copeland, M. K. Schwartz, Wolverine Confirmation in California after Nearly a Century: Native or Long-Distance Immigrant?

More marten research at Sagehen.

Watch Pine Marten videos.

American Martens in Sagehen Basin. from F. Felix on Vimeo.

Gary Roller & Jeff Brown discuss Sagehen SPLATs research.

10-25-2006: Here's an old TTCTV broadcast of Maia Schneider interviewing Gary Roller & Jeff Brown about SPLATs research at Sagehen.


Gary Roller & Jeff Brown discuss SPLATs research. from F. Felix on Vimeo.

Sustainable management of fire-dependent forests. from F. Felix on Vimeo.

8-13-09: For Sagehen Speaker Series no. 26, Dr. Malcolm North discusses a new, multi-discipline publication from the Forest Service PSW, "An Ecosystem Management Strategy for Sierran Mixed-Conifer Forests".

Amazingly, it seems all the players are agreeing on this document. Wildlife, timber harvests, clean water & healthy forests: maybe we can have it all?

Download a copy of this publication from the Sagehen Events page:

Interview with Andrew Sheldon

Interview with Andrew Sheldon. from F. Felix on Vimeo.

Andy Sheldon was the last Resident Biologist at Sagehen Creek Field Station. We button-holed him during his recent re-visit for a Plecoptera Society meeting.

Sheldon talks about Sagehen's wild early years, the value of elevational transects, & why field biology will survive the ascendancy of genetic analysis.

MP3 file of unedited interview available here [turn sound down!!!].

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Kyburz Flat animal underpass dedication ceremony.

Kyburz Flat underpass dedication ceremony. from F. Felix on Vimeo.

6-25-09: Members of the Highway-89 Stewardship Team host a dedication ceremony at the new Kyburz Flat animal underpass.

More information about the team.
More videos about the team.

Forest Resiliency & SPLATs Research at Sagehen.

Forest Resiliency & SPLATs Research at Sagehen. from F. Felix on Vimeo.

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This video is Sagehen Summer Speaker Series #21. Professor John Battles discusses how we can convert our precious western national forests from torchy, mismanaged tree farms, back into resilient, naturally-functioning ecosystems using Strategically Placed Area Treatments [SPLATs].

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You can read Nicole Vaillant's recently completed Ph.D. thesis on SPLATs here.

This study includes a fire history for Sagehen Basin that indicates that the fire return interval in the basin was just a bit over 2-years prior to the logging era. It increased to over 20-years after logging began, which would explain these massive, hot & destructive forest fires we've been having in the West lately.

Highway-89 Road Ecology.

Highway-89 Road Ecology. from F. Felix on Vimeo.

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This video is Sagehen Summer Speaker Series #19, Sandra Jacobson discussing the Highway-89 Stewardship Team Road Ecology project.

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For full editorial disclosure, see the un-edited source tape here.

See this link for more information about the Highway-89 Stewardship Team & projects.

Here's a 2-part FishXing multi-media presentation from Sandy with more about road ecology. More road ecology P.E.P.'s available here.

Sagehen Summer Speaker Series #10: Plant Communication

7-29-06: Professor Rick Karban of UC Davis keeps the crowd enrapt with discussion of his controversial research showing that plants exchange information with each other in response to predators (but you don't have to call it "communication" if that idea bothers you!).

00:49:40 [34.5 MB] or watch below...

Plant Communication from F. Felix on Vimeo.