Forest and fire ecologist, biology professor at Fort Lewis College, owner San Juan Ecological Consulting LLC, mother of three, find me in the woods or alpine
“And it must be morally incumbent upon tenured faculty, who have the least to lose, to speak out in favor of institution-level changes and restructuring of their departments.”
It is not easy to advocate for change. It is right. @500womensci@ESWNtweets@HomewardBound16
Education + Adventure = FLC
Fort Lewis College Biology major Hailee McOmber (in photo in tweet) took part in a watershed-wide campaign to collect plants and soils as @NEON_sci planes flew overhead!
Where did she learn to ID plants? @FLCDurango@JulieKorb
Amazing to hear such clear statements about the link of climate change to wildfire from my colleague @JulieKorb in a press conference today. Snow left & fires and fireweed came early to Colorado this year.
Contact:[email protected] for the press release & recording.
This is a serious issue for the protection of healthy ecosystems. Fort Lewis College has an amazing local herbarium and plant courses in the Biology Dept. @FLCDurango Can’t tell a rhododendron from a hydrangea? You may have ‘plant blindness’ https://t.co/tJcPCMm5iy via @WSJ
Devil Creek fire is burning right near our field research camping site. My field crew and I are in communication with the FS and they are safe. The prescribed fire the FS is doing will increase forest health and resiliency as illustrated in our prescribed fire research plots.
My Fort Lewis College botany field crew having fun while collecting year 10 post forest restoration treatment data in warm-dry mixed conifer, Southwest Colorado. #forestrestoration#fireresearch@FLCDurango