Chaparral hills at the UC Davis Quail Ridge Reserve, home of several exciting lichen projects
Derek Young expriences, esentially, enlightment upon observing a big clump of conifer seedlings. Does it get any better than early and abundant tree regneration post-fire?!?!
Poppies bloom two years after the Hennessey Fire at Quail Ridge, the site of our long-term post-fire lichen monitoring projects – 2022
Visiting Kew Gardens with my brother Aber
Post-fire landscape at the Quail Ridge reserve, fall 2020
Island biogeography seminar on the beach with undergrads at Bamfield Marine Science Center, Vancouver Island, BC – 2019
Sagebrush steppe landscape near Burns, Oregon – one of our study sites in the 2009-2010 soil crust survey with Heather Root
2024 California Lichen Society Meeting at the Sedgwick Reserve near Santa Barbara
Angelica lineariloba with a view of the eastern Sierra in the area that burned in the 2015 Walker Fire
Loberlia spicata is an indicator of unplowed prairies, says Dr. Kelly Kindscher – 2019
Fieldwork with Quamash EcoResearch staff studying White Bluffs bladderpod
Visiting tall western penstemon with Elaine Stewart, who originally found the population – June 2024
Teaching winter tree ID in the general ecology class at UW-Madison
Prickly poppies bloom the year after the Walker fire (summer 2016, Mono County, California)
Toasting the completion of the 2023 Eriogonum codium census with Callie Zender and Walter Fertig
Red fir forest canopy in Yosemite
Nora Bales surveying deep on Bear Ridge south of Mt. Eddy.
Friendly locals in Ozark National Forest
Lichen walk at Sam P Taylor State Park with Golden Gate Parks Conservacy – November 2023
Looking at lichens on a magnolia with students in my Jepson Herbarium workshop
In the field with Idaho State Botanist Lynn Kinter
Leading a lichen walk with CNPS on San Bruno Mountain in 2020
April and John get deep on the lichens on an ancient oak in Devon, England
Teaching a field class at Jasper Ridge – 2022
Exploring caves at Lava Beds National Monument with John Villella for our cave lichen survey
Surveying Bradshaw’s lomatium using hula hoops as plot frames – April 2024
Echinacea I seeded in 2015 blooms in 2019
Epiphytic lichens on a coastal ridge at the UCSB Rancho Marino Reserve
Fieldwork visitor
Surveying the Darlingtonia bog in the Klamaths
Looking out at the Little Applegate Valley’s mix of veg types in southern Oregon circa 2008
Field trip for lichen workshop at Reed College, October 2023
Oak savanna in Jackson County, Oregon, where I surveyed for rare plants in 2008
Leading a rare plant and lichen field trip in the Olympics, June 2024
Lichen night at the Exploritorium – 2019
Leading a lichen walk with CNPS on San Bruno Mountain in 2020
Looking at lichens at the CALS annual meting – 2019
Ozark endemic Echinacea paradoxa in Ha Ha Tonka State Park, Missouri
Serpentine trees
Checking out lichens on an old curch in Devon, England with April Windle and John Douglass
Teaching field botany on the McCloud River circa 2009
Amanda points out pine beetle galleries in the Walker Fire – whitebark pine forest above Gibbs Lake, Mono County, CA
Walking down the mountain after a long day surveying for rare plants in Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, 2007
Guerrilla field plant ID lab during Ozarks fieldwork
Ozark woodland study plot in Ozark National Forest near Fayetteville, Arkansas
Teaching field botany on Scotch Creek, Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument
Thin soils and big skies at Columbia Hills Natural Area in Klickitat County, Washington – spring 2023
Phil Hahn sweepnets grasshoppers for our multitrophic diversity project
Savanna and oak woodland in the foothills of the central Sierra Nevada, near a study site for the California statewide survey
keying plants with a view at the Rancho Marino Reserve
The endemic Klickitat lomatium, on a high slope above the Klickitat River in Washington State
Sketches from a student in my Jepson Herbarium lichen workshop (Mary Ann King)
Lichens spreading happiness
The commute home after a long day surveying the Grouse Fire in Yosemite
California Lichen Society at SugarloafRidge SP. Strong wind from the left, apparenlty..
Lichen fieldwork in the East Bay with Stanford undergrads Eric and Isabella – 2021
Fire ecology: sometimes you find morels
Teaching mushroom identification at the Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center, circa 2008
Field camp during the 2016 survey of the Long Fire near Kyburz, California
Benefits of Botanizing – Gifford Pinchot National Forest, summer 2020
Hiking with Stanford grads, spring 2022. We found a rare plichen growing on a rare plant!
The glade specialist Delphinium treleasii
One of the most beautiful soil crust lichens – Acarospora schleicheri – from the 2009 central Oregon soil crust survey with Heather Root
High lichen biomass and diversity in an old-growth chaparral stand, Napa Co, CA
Study plot among huge red firs in the Rim Fire, Yosemite National Park
Word cloud based on my research paper abstracts
Hiking in the Santa Cruz Mountains with Stanford bio grad students and friends – 2022
A population of the very rare Railarella pringlei in the Klamath Mountains
Landscape at one of the California statewide serpentine survey sites I did for Susan Harrison – one of the best jobs I’ve ever had!
dry forest lichen community on the Modoc Plateau
Teaching a field class at Jasper Ridge – 2022
Epiphytic lichen community on valley oak in Moore Creek Park, Napa County–a field site for my UC Davis lichenology course
Obscure buttercup (Ranunculus triternatus) – endemic to the eastern Columbia gorge
Echinacea paradoxa hybridizing with E. pallida – coolest thing ever!
Island fieldwork with undergrads at Bamfield Marine Science Center, Vancouver Island, BC – 2019
Sketches from a student in my Jepson Herbarium lichen workshop (by Mary Ann King)
Wolf lichen on a tree bole in the Sierra – 2016 post-fire monitoring fieldwork
Stunted conifer forests on serpentine, Horse Mountain, Humboldt County, California. One of the many places I visited on the statewide survey.
Field crew 2017 demonstrating rigorous commitment to daily data backup – during our survey of the Rim Fire
Campsite during fieldwork in Ozark National Forest near Optimus, 2012
Measuring lichen photosynthetic capacity in my ecology research class – 2019
With former Washington State Botanists Joe Arnett and Walter Fertig at the 2024 Botany Study Weekend meeting
Quadrat view of a veg plot near the New Hogan Reservoir in the Sierra Foothills for Susan Harrison’s California statewide plant community survey, 2009
The lovely, serepentine-associated Darlingtonia california
Island fieldwork with undergrads at Bamfield Marine Science Center, Vancouver Island, BC – 2019
We finally found Lobaria virens! W/ April Windle and John Douglass in Devon, England – May 2024
Surveying Castilleja victoriae on Iceberg Island, June 2024
Collecting plant community data in the White River Hills of Missouri
Fieldwork in post-fire red fir forest, Yosemite
Leading a group of state botanists from around the country through old growth forest at Mt. Ranier National Park. Here we’re checking out goblin’s gold moss!
Study plot in Victoria Glade, Jefferson Co., Missouri
Jesse E. D. Miller 