I spent this week up in the Craigieburn Forest Park of the NZ Southern Alps helping to teach our Masters level Conservation Biology course at #LincolnUniversityNZ.
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I spent this week up in the Craigieburn Forest Park of the NZ Southern Alps helping to teach our Masters level Conservation Biology course at #LincolnUniversityNZ.
This is the first year we've run the course field trip at this location. We did so to better understand how nature is recovering after the big December 2024 fire in the area.
We were joined by retired restoration ecologist and pine expert Nick Ledgard, who spent much of his career working at the site. Nick now has a set of restoration trials set up to learn how to increase the native cover in the burnt area. The worry is that if left alone it will transition to a largely weed dominated vegetation.
@frankashwood joined us for the first days of the trip to help us monitor the soil invertebrates establishing in the burnt areas, which we're comparing with the unburnt areas.
@TimCurran was also with us for a day to better understand how the fire spread through the area, and why a lot of the mountain beech forest did not burn.
#restoration #ecology #nz #FieldTrip #universityFieldTrip
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@bigblen @frankashwood @TimCurran Yes, one would hope, or at very least the culprits that started the fire. The recovery is going to be a long journey.
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I spent this week up in the Craigieburn Forest Park of the NZ Southern Alps helping to teach our Masters level Conservation Biology course at #LincolnUniversityNZ.
This is the first year we've run the course field trip at this location. We did so to better understand how nature is recovering after the big December 2024 fire in the area.
We were joined by retired restoration ecologist and pine expert Nick Ledgard, who spent much of his career working at the site. Nick now has a set of restoration trials set up to learn how to increase the native cover in the burnt area. The worry is that if left alone it will transition to a largely weed dominated vegetation.
@frankashwood joined us for the first days of the trip to help us monitor the soil invertebrates establishing in the burnt areas, which we're comparing with the unburnt areas.
@TimCurran was also with us for a day to better understand how the fire spread through the area, and why a lot of the mountain beech forest did not burn.
#restoration #ecology #nz #FieldTrip #universityFieldTrip
@joncounts @frankashwood @TimCurran looks great.
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@lightweight @frankashwood @TimCurran Nick has slowed down a bit now with age but he’s still tack sharp and doing important conservation work, both at the Craigieburns and on the Ashley River.
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