Cooking and Field Days

Fall harvest continues!  Using up the last of the peppers inspired me to make my own buffalo sauce which turned out amazing.  We also made tacos with homemade tortillas since Zephyr got a press for his birthday.

I also got in an unprecedented couple of field days which was really nice.  The first was a stream identification workshop for western Oregon hydrology and forestry staff and the second was a detrimental soil disturbance monitoring trip where the effects of wet-season ground based logging were evaluated.  The later day was a tough one because there was a lot of hiking through logging slash on a warm day on steep slopes with lots of sun exposure.  I was exhausted at the end of the day.

This is is what most of my work looks like these days.  Here I am with Brian, down in Eugene.

Getting nerdy over exposed soils in a road-cut

Recent BLM regeneration harvest (harvested last winter).  Ground based machinery was used during the wet season, with a waiver, and effects are being assessed now.

An example of detrimental soil disturbance where ground based machinery created ruts

Stream identification workshop attendees

A decommissioned temp road