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mamma mia! here we go (up north) again!
First things first: we ate dinner next to Amanda Seyfried. Let that one simmer. The scene: a pizza place in the mid-Hudson Valley outside of the Catskills. She is as effervescent in real life as she is on screen. And then yeah we were a table over gobbling on pizza. Anyways- the real reason Tess…
alageorgiabama 2026
Greetings from down south! Ethan, Emma E, and Tess headed down for a quick circuit of field work right after finals ended for the semester. We drove a nice little loop from Charlottesville to Huntsville AL, then over to Atlanta, and back up to Cville. For our travels we were looking for leaves from blackgum…
tis the seedson!
It’s seed season! Seedson! Last Friday, I guest lectured in Meghan’s Landscape Architecture class (LAR-7210, Eco-Tech III), talking about sourcing & growing native plants for restoration and landscape projects. I gave a ~40 minute talk on native, invasive, and non-native plants, and then specifically talked about how to grow and source these plants locally and…
fire is catching. if we (prescribe) burn you (prescribe) burn with us!
As Ellie Goulding once said… we’re gonna let it burn, burn, burn, burn… Today myself, Emma, Meghan, and Jack Boyle tagged along with Meghan’s Landscape Architecture class to attend and assist with a prescribed burn at Quarry Gardens at Schuyler with the Piedmont Discovery Center. On the way there I nearly took out his first 5-point…
roll tide!! roll tupelo!! (we’re in alabama)
Roll tide!!!!! This past weekend, September 26th to 28th, myself (Ethan) and Meghan embarked on a trip down to Paint Rock Forest, ~20 miles southeast of Hunstville, AL, for some field work! I was scouting for some more tupelo for my research, and Meghan came along to help out and also check out one of…
tupelo scouting @ Mohonk Preserve!
Writing from the Hudson Valley up in New York! I’ve been here for a few days doing some fieldwork up at Mohonk Preserve in Gardiner, New York. My fieldwork is consisting largely of scouting for tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica) throughout the Preserve, looking for upland dry and lowland wet populations. The fieldwork has been gorgeous and…
Ethan skuches 