Impact

Most posts here are about a particular project among those currently or recently active at the Ives Lake Field Station. This one attempts a more over-arching perspective on the overall impact of the Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation’s 66 years of sponsoring research. There are many ways of assessing the significance …

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Insects in the Mines

Even very ubiquitous and diverse groups of organisms are sometimes so cryptic we’re barely aware of them. Leaf-mining insects, for example, are abundant where-ever there are leafy plants, but most of us are barely aware of them.  The leaf-mining life-style works so well, though, that it has evolved convergently in …

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Headwaters

Streams have to start somewhere, but their beginning can be ambiguous. The smallest headwater streams — ‘first-order’ streams that have no smaller tributaries — are usually ephemeral, flowing only at snowmelt or after heavy rains. One relatively definite beginning point is the highest point where these headwater streams establish an …

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