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Conservation

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A group photo of participants from the workshop for indigo snake conservation.
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  • Science of Scales

A Structured Decision-Making Workshop for Indigo Snake Conservation

  • ByHouston Chandler
  • March 6, 2025
Views:140 views Workshop participants from left to right: Derek Colbert (USFS), Lauren Wright (USFS), Traci Wood (AL DCNR),…
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Aldabra Giant Tortoises on a rocky slope.
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Protecting Aldabra’s Giant Tortoises

  • ByChris Jenkins
  • February 16, 2025
Views:309 views Photo by Thomas Peschak The Seychelles Archipelago, a crown jewel of the Indian Ocean, is a…
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Beyond the Textbook: Individuality Among Species in the Wild

  • ByKiley Briggs
  • February 11, 2025
Views:276 views Studying wildlife sometimes involves tracking animals using radio telemetry. By attaching a small transmitter to an…
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The Orianne Society’s 2024 Giving Tuesday Raffle for Conservation

  • ByTracy Karplus
  • November 20, 2024
The Orianne Society’s 2024 Giving Tuesday Raffle for Conservation is on!  Buy one ticket for $10, five tickets for $45, or 10 tickets for $90!
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Saving Wood Turtles on working lands involves working with farmers towards their conservation. Shown here, Wood Turtle with injury from haying equipment.
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An Approach to Saving Wood Turtles on Working Lands

  • ByKiley Briggs
  • November 14, 2024
Views:126 views Common Injuries Among Wood Turtles When I first came across a Wood Turtle nicknamed “Chippy”, she…
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Natural disturbances, like the recent Hurricane Helene, blew over many longleaf pine trees down at the Longleaf Stewardship Center.
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Natural Disturbances

  • ByCaleb Goldsmith
  • November 11, 2024
Views:87 views https://youtu.be/yGYfXJWXQrQ This month on Lighting a Match, Caleb Goldsmith gives us an update on the Longleaf…
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A characteristic pine flatwoods landscape with an overstory of pines and an understory of thick herbaceous vegetation. Areas like these were studied for flatwoods salamander conservation. Image by Houston Chandler
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New Published Research: Informing Flatwoods Salamander Conservation with High-Resolution Elevation Data

  • ByHouston Chandler
  • September 10, 2024
Views:132 views Example of LiDAR data used in this research. Warm colors indicate higher elevations (trees and shrubs)…
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Burning Turkey Oak to Restore a Longleaf Sandhill

  • ByCaleb Goldsmith
  • January 24, 2024
This month on Lighting a Match, Caleb Goldsmith walks us through a prescribed burn prep on a private property that has a healthy Gopher Tortoise population. The Orianne Society burn team is working to clear 20-year-old growth turkey oak here to open up the canopy and restore wiregrass growth on this longleaf sandhill.
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