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Vol. CLV, Issue 4
Whitman news since 1896

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Whitman Wire
This is a photo of one of the exclosures we worked in. With the era of fire suppression came and over abundance of coniferous trees in the arid forests of Eastern Oregon. They conifers crowded out deciduous trees like alders and willows, prime species for riparian zones (the area of land that surrounds a body of water). Coupled with grazing and the trapping of beavers, creeks are not doing so well. By cutting down a few conifers and fencing in the alders to protect them from grazing animals, Fouty is trying to reestablish alder populations, and we were helping her track the growth. In just one of the zones we measured, alder suckers had doubled since 2012 to over 2500 suckers.

Working Hard or Hardly Working

Jessica Faunt • September 15, 2014

Thursday, September 11, 2014 - Camp Creek, Baker County, OR For the last four days we have been with a wonderful woman named Suzanne Fouty, helping her count and measure aspen trees in several exclosures...

Have a Cow

Jessica Faunt • September 9, 2014

For the next semester I will be traveling with 20 other Whitman students throughout the American Southwest, studying conservation, ecology, literature and politics. I'm here to share the antics that happen...

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