Sequoia Forest Keepers End of the Summer Report 2011

Bear - Bell Sequoia ForestKeeper Interns Overview

Forest Health Monitoring

Meadow Monitoring

Fisher Monitoring

Our Summer Experiences

Forest Health

 Methods

 Randomly selected plots

 48 ft plot

 4 layers of canopy

 Cover species

 Tree data Forest Health Results Belknap, McIntyre, Black Mountain, Starvation, Packsaddle Groves surveyed

Greenhorns Surveyed

Preliminary findings

Future Analysis

Meadow Monitoring

 Methods

 Inlet and outlets

 Pool distribution

 Bank stability

 Algal growth

 Channel shading

 Cattle signs

Meadow Monitoring

 Results  16 meadows were good

 5 meadows with potential problems

 5 meadows that require restoration as soon as possible (Kruse 2010) Bad Meadows Bad Meadows Bad Meadows Bad Meadows Bad Meadows Pacific fisher Monitoring

 Methods  Plot selection

 Plot set up

 Reconyx Camera

 UC Berkley protocol Pacific fisher monitoring

Results

Rancheria: 3 out of 5

ICE: 2 out of 5 Pacific Fisher Range

(Kruse 2010).

Fisher Pictures! I’ll take this to go

Bear Pictures

OHHH YEAHH!

Cows!

Species List

Birds: 34. Pacific Slope Flycatcher 69. Williamson’s Sapsucker 1. American Kestrel 35. Willow Flycatcher 70. Common Poorwill 2. Pileated Woodpecker 36. White-breasted Nuthatch 71. Chukar 3. Say’s phoebe 37. Tree swallow 72. Ring-billed Gull 4. Black phoebe 38. Blue Grosbeak 73. Western Screech Owl 5. Western Tanager 39. Western Bluebird 74. Burrowing Owl 6. Common Raven 40. Western Scrubjay 75. Barn Swallow 7. American Robin 41. Brewer’s Blackbird 76. Cliff Swallow 8. Red Tailed Hawk 42. Brown headed Cowbird 77. Chestnut-backed Chickadee 9. Northern Goshawk 43. European Starling 78. Horned Lark 10. Yellow-rumped Warbler 44. White-throated Swift 79. Chipping Sparrow 11. Dark-eyed Junco 45. Red-winged Blackbird 80. Mourning Dove 12. Western kingbird 46. Tricolored Blackbird 81. Greater Roadrunner 13. Stellar’s Jay 47. Nuttall’s Woodpecker 82. Great-tailed Grackle 14. Red-breasted nuthatch 48. Northern Mockingbird 83. Le Conte’s Thrasher 15. Black Headed Grosbeak 49. Loggerhead Shrike 84. Cassin’s Finch 16. Olive sided Flycatcher 50. Great Blue Heron 85. Snowy Egret 17. Western wood-pewee 51. Mallard 86. Common Goldeneye 18. Mountain Chickadee 52. Varied Thrush 87. Common Merganser 19. Turkey Vulture 53. Golden Eagle 88. California Gull 20. Band-tailed Pigeon 54. American Dipper 89. Canada Goose 21. American Crow 55. Red-breasted Sapsucker 90. Peregrine Falcon 22. House Wren 56. White-headed Woodpecker 91. Great Horned Owl 23. House Sparrow 57. Mountain Quail 92. Pine Grosbeak 24. Hermit Thrush 58. Summer Tanager 93. Rufous Hummingbird 25. California Quail 59. Violet-green Swallow 94. Yellow Warbler 26. Swainson’s Thrush 60. Mountain Bluebird 95. American Goldfinch 27. Osprey 61. Downy Woodpecker 96. Pygmy Nuthatch 28. House Finch 62. Northern Harrier 97. Clark’s Nutcracker 29. Bullock’s Oriole 63. Evening Grosbeak 98. Common Nighthawk 30. Northern Flicker 64. Anna’s Hummingbird 99. White-crowned Sparrow 31. Lesser Goldfinch 65. Calliope Hummingbird 100. Hutton’s Vireo 32. Western Meadowlark 66. Marsh Wren 101. Swainson’s Hawk 33. Warbling Vireo 67. Brown Creeper 68. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Species List

Mammals: 14. Little Brown Bat 1. California Mule Deer 15. Desert Cottontail 2. Western Grey Squirrel 16. Mojave Ground Squirrel 3. Lodgepole Chipmunk 17. Raccoon 4. Douglas Squirrel 18. Bobcat 5. Mountain Pocket Gopher 19. Mountain Lion 6. California Ground squirrel 20. Grey Fox 7. Black-Tailed Jackrabbit 21. Black Bear 8. Water Shrew 22. Belding’s Ground Squirrel 9. Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel 23. White-tailed Jackrabbit 10. Harvest Mouse 24. Coyote 11. Pacific Fisher 25. Yellow-bellied Marmot 12. Striped Skunk 26. Alpine Chipmunk 13. Nuttall’s Cottontail Species List

Insects: 17. River Beetle 35. Yellow-winged Grasshopper 18. Green Lacewing 36. Stealthy Ground Spider 1. Bioluminescent Millipede 19. Tengelled Spider 37. Horntail 2. Large Wolf Spider 20. Western Black-legged Tick 38. Leanothus Silk Moth 3. Convergent Lady beetle 21. Indra Swallowtail 39. Klamath Weed Beetle 4. Manica Ant 22. Mourning Cloak 40. Pale Swallowtail 5. Red Mound Ant 23. Stilt Bug 41. Common Buckeye 6. Water Penny 24. Black Blow Fly 42. Blister Beetle 7. Common Water Strider 25. Running Crab Spider 43. California Flatheaded Borer 8. Yphria 26. Echo Azure 44. Singing Cicada 9. Stumpstabber 27. White-crossed Seed Bug 45. Western Black Widow 10. Monarch Butterfly 28. Mayfly 46. Black Bee Fly 11. California Tent Moth 29. Giant Crane Fly 47. Grappletail 12. Silvery Field Ant 30. Angulate Orbweaver 48. Snakefly 13. Modoc Carpenter Ant 31. California Sister 49. California Tortoiseshell 14. Darkling Beetle 32. White-lined Sphynx 50. Banana Slug 15. Jerusalem Cricket 33. Millipede 16. Red-winged Grasshopper 34. Lorquin’s Admiral Species List

Plants: 46. Branching Phacelia 92. Big-leaf Maple 1. Douglas Fir 47. Washington Lily 93. Quaking Aspen 2. Ponderosa Pine 48. Snowy Thistle 94. Fremont Cottonwood 3. Sugar Pine 49. Rosy Fairy Lantern 95. Interior Rose 4. Western Wallflower 50. Mountain Alder 96. Yarrow 5. Snow Plant 51. Fivespot 97. Western Morning Glory 6. Giant Sequoia 52. Pine Violet 98. Spreading Phlox 7. White Fir 53. Sticky Cinquefoil 99. Clustered Phlox 8. Jeffrey Pine 54. Pinedrops 100. Fringed Pinesap 9. Gray Pine 55. Dwarf Monkey Flower 101. Wyoming Paintbrush 10. Blue Elderberry 56. California Thistle 102. Shining Willow 11. Sierra Gooseberry 57. Fan Violet 103. Spotted Coralroot 12. Miner’s Lettuce 58. Common Dandelion 104. Pussy Paws 13. White Alder 59. Yucca 105. Crimson Columbine 14. Western White Pine 60. Western Sycamore 106. Leopard Lily 15. Canyon Live Oak 61. Poison Oak 107. Wandering Daisy 16. Wood Fern 62. Dwarf Juniper 108. Checker Bloom 17. California Black Oak 63. Joshua Tree 109. Sneezeweed 18. Mountain Dogwood 64. Coyote Brush 110. Singleleaf Pinyon Pine 19. Sierra Currant 65. Choia Cactus 111. California Buckeye 20. Alpine Buttercup 66. Common Horsetail 112. Buck Brush Ceanothus 21. Torrey’s Blue-eyed Mary 67. Jimson Weed 113. California Black Berry 22. Incense-Cedar 68. Prickly Poppy 114. Bush Chinquapin 23. Drummond’s Cinquefoil 69. Beavertail Grass 115. Mountain Lady’s Slipper 24. Prairie Star 70. Jeffrey Shooting Star 116. Cow Parsnip 25. Blue Dicks 71. California Indian Pink 117. Leichtlin’s Mariposa Lily 26. Bolander’s Woodland Star 72. Beavertail Cactus 118. Sugar Stick 27. Baby Blue Eyes 73. Prickly Pear 119. Bleeding Hearts 28. Tincture Plant 74. White Alder 120. Fireweed 29. Common Fiddleneck 75. Water Birch 121. Alpine Shooting Star 30. Spring Gold 76. Sierra Coffeeberry 122. Scarlet Gilia 31. Bi-Colored Monkey Flower 77. Bracken Fern 123. Woolly Mullein 32. Sierra Gentian 78. Common Scouring Rush 124. Common Sunflower 33. Pretty Face 79. Butterfly Mariposa Lily 125. Skunk Cabbage 34. Wooley Mule’s Ear 80. Meadow Penstemon 126. Subalpine Paintbrush 35. Cut-leaved Monkey Flower 81. Layne’s Monkey Flower 127. Coville’s Lupine 36. California Waterleaf 82. Catchfly 128. Meadow Lupine 37. Creeping Snowberry 83. Hartweg’s Iris 129. Sierra Nevada Pea 38. Sticky Currant 84. Seep-Spring Monkey Flower 130. Sierra Daisy 39. Whiteleaf Manzanita 85. Showy Penstemon 131. Keckiella 40. Greenleaf Manzanita 86. Hiker’s Gentian 132. Sierra Saxifrage 41. Miniature Miner’s Lettuce 87. Grand Callomia 133. Mustang clover 42. Woodland Star 88. Western Juniper 43. Giant Red Paintbrush 89. California Red Fir 44. Whisker Brush 90. Lodgepole Pine 45. California Poppy 91. Foxtail Pine Species List

Fungus/ Lichen: 10. Leafy Miseltoe 21. Green Rock-posy 11. Cryptic Globe 22. Sculptured Puffball 1. Black Morel Fungus 23. Witch’s Butter 2. Thier’s Coral 12. Artist’s Conk 24. Witch’s Hair Lichen 3. Los Angeles 13. Dog Vomit Slime 25. Emery Rock Tripe Melanoleuca Mold 14. Yellow-Coral 4. Snow Mushroom Fish: 5. Broad Wrinkle 15. Sulfur Shelf Lichen 16. Elegant Sunburst 1. Coastal Rainbow 6. Brown Cup Fungus Lichen Trout 7. Small Warted 17. Brown Tile Lichen 2. Golden Trout Mountain Puffball 18. Map Lichen 8. Wolf Lichen 19. Wart Lichen 9. Green Starburst 20. Stonewall Rim Lichen Lichen Species List

Herps: 10. Pacific Chorus Frog 1. Sierra Fence Lizard 11. San Diego Alligator Lizard 2. Western Pond Turtle 12. Gilberts’ Skink 3. Northern Pacific 13. Coast Horned Lizard Rattlesnake 14. Common Kingsnake 4. Pacific Gopher Snake 15. Sierra Mountain 5. Wandering Gartersnake Kingsnake 6. Mountain Gartersnake 16. Sierra Gartersnake 7. Common Snake 17. Western Skink 8. Great Basing Whiptail 9. Common Side-blotched Lizard Our Experiences

Favorite things about the summer: • Fisher work • Living in the Forest • Wildlife sightings • Swimming holes • Food poisoning • Meadows! • Wild Flowers

Most memorable moment: • Mountain Lion in campsite.

Questions?

“SFK ROCKS!” -Aldo Leopold Thank You SFK!!

We had a wonderful summer filled with some life changing experiences. Thank you for the opportunity to learn and grow with your awesome organization!