Author: woollypoddesign

The Spring 2025 Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) Field Trip started, as many other field trips do, at the Burke Museum parking lot in the early morning. Soon, we assembled our crew (shaved down by illnesses and schedule changes) and took off toward the South Salish Sea region, where we would visit two sites –…

To keep myself busy and make use of my gap year somehow, I began to turn to the ecology all around me. I realized that despite spending most of my life in Eastern Washington’s shrub steppe, I knew hardly a thing about its ecology – its native plants and animals, the biotic crust that covered…