11-23-12 Field Note by Jeff Clarke

November 26, 2012

Jeff Clarke's field note describes basin wildrye plantings, prescribed burns, and beaver activity.

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11-23-12 Field Note

Two years ago we sowed basin wildrye into this field.

The transplanting crew used 5 gallon pails to plant more than 450 of the thinned bunch grasses from the plantation.

Several more acres of grasslands burned via prescription this week.

I didn’t find any dead critters in the wake of the burns; however, I did find a failed partridge nest that had 10 hard boiled eggs in it.

Chlorophyll reluctantly fades from the last green oregon grape leaves.

I found this brittle prickly pear cactus leaf in the middle of an elk “highway.”

Beavers continue to harvest cottonwood trees on the river’s edge along the entire Northern Floodplain.

Downey woodpeckers are drawn to the insect-ridden burnt bark in the Northern Floodplain.

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