Past the Blue River Reservoir I drove, stopping to admire the reflection of Oregon puffy clouds in the calm water, rimmed by deep emerald mountains and home to a small family of Canada geese, an osprey, a common merganser, and a busy spotted sandpiper complete with a rapidly bobbing tail. Just up the hill from…
Month: February 2019
Press – Interviewed on American Shoreline Podcast Network
It helps to have high school friends in the conservation world! Last week Jenna Valente interviewed me for her show on the American Shoreline Podcast Network, focused on how I found myself in the environmental field and what the Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance does to restore the coast in Northwest Florida. Check it out via the…
LTER – X Marks the Spot in the Jornada Desert
In the center of the grassland and shrubland of the Jornada LTER, I gaze across short mesh nets, arranged in an X and stretching approximately one foot across in each direction, sitting unobtrusively on the ground between mesquite, bushes, and snakeweed bunches. Spherical cottontail rabbit pellets congregated in the low places, and Josh Anderson, Reserve…
E. Zambello Writing and Photography 