Soil carbon sequestration and nitrogen are hot topics in cropland management. The Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility conducts decadal soil sampling across cropping systems that are part of the Century Experiment to investigate soil physicochemical dynamics over time, and results of our 20-year sampling were recently presented in a poster at the international tri-society ASA-SSSA-CSSA meeting. Check…
Day: November 16, 2016
Wildlife responses to restoration article submitted to Journal of Applied Ecology
Restorationists often hope and expect that wildlife will increase in abundance and diversity when “native” habitats are restored, but this assumption has not been well-investigated for most wildlife species, particularly in grasslands, and even more so in the Central Valley of California. From 2014 to 2015 I conducted a rather ambitious spatiotemporally replicated natural experiment investigating wildlife…
Job opening with Community Alliance with Family Farmers
Attached find the draft job description for a half-time (to become full-time) job opening with CAFF. Looks like a very neat opportunity! CAFF Policy Director Announcement
