Author Archives: Mark

After two fairly long drives and two fairly boring days learning about the BLM, FS, NPS, and FWS, along with unnecessarily long lectures about Section 7 of the ESA which requires biologists working with T&E; species to prepare a BA … Continue reading →

The town of Dubois is 40 miles away as the crow flies. By road, it is 160 miles through Jackson or 220 miles through Lander (the problem being the presence of the Wind River Mountains in between). It is also … Continue reading →

Pothole bird surveys are done, so Kate and I headed back out west to start the next round of lynx surveys. Kate, a junior at Brigham Young University in Idaho with an interest in wildlife and range management, is a … Continue reading →

(Sunday) After a late morning, Nick finally managed to get me off of my ass (and computer game) to go for a hike. Nick and Chrissy wanted an easier trail so opted for Photographer’s Point. As I had already been … Continue reading →

I realize it’s been well over a week since my last “daily” update. I have acquired a computer game (Sacred) that is rather addicting and so have been doing that rather than posting on here in my free time. This … Continue reading →

Task of the day: complete the lynx habitat survey by creating polygons around good habitat. This basically entails returning to the points where we found suitable habitat and walking a perimeter while carrying a Trimble GPS that is constantly logging … Continue reading →

Spent the morning working on Lynx data, putting files together. Tomorrow will finish field work for lynx by walking polygons around good habitat. Started the guzzler project in the afternoon – looking for 40-year-old “raintraps” – essentially large rectangles of … Continue reading →

It appears that Mark Luterra has finally got himself a blog. An online diary of sorts, though of course I don’t plan on divulging all of my personal secrets. Anyway, look for updates on the mundane and not-so-mundane events of … Continue reading →