NOW PUBLISHED at the American Journal of Botany: Temporal analysis of reproduction distributed in space illuminates the climate-change resiliency of toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia)
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Excellent baseball moment.
This spring has been my best Hairy Bear Scarab season. Every year, I search and search. Usually I’m lucky if I see just one. Today I was nearly swarmed by them. They’re fantastic buzzy fliers.
Hairy Bear Scarab Beetle on blooming Bitterbrush.
(Paracotalpa granicollis)
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There were two big streamflow pulses since 1 Oct 25. iirc these were due to “rain on snow” events, which sucks for the water storage potential in the Sierra Nevada snowpack.
2590 cfs - 22 Dec 25
2280 cfs - 25 Feb 26
Water Year 2025 for comparison with a big pulse but traditional peak flow season.
View from the Fleisch Bridge.
With the river rapidly roaring and the suspension bridge swaying, it was disorienting.
That’s me! The shadow, I mean.
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Jeremy Yoder says no war
Because I’m still a water resources nerd, it’s time for our traditional semi-occasional streamflow observation.
Is April still “peak” hydrographic flow for the Truckee River?
This morning at 9:30 AM, Farad gage read 1180 cubic feet per second.
Premise Toyon, Heteromeles arbutifolia (Rosaceae), is an iconic and ecologically important member of California chaparral and oak woodland communities. Its habitat faces changing wildfire regimes, w...
As a baseball fan of many years, I’ve never seen anything like this before. I love it. Normalize giving your fellow humans hugs.
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Our biannual “let’s go look at the streamflow.”
At the beginning of the new water year, flow ≈480 cfs at USGS Truckee R at Farad, the official Truckee River flow gage. This location is ≈3 miles downstream.
Und und gleich noch einmal
The Mouthy Renegade Writer
Marianne Denton
BBS
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Today’s lunch date (with me, I was with me).
Marianne Denton
Morning on the Truckee River
531 cubic feet/second ≈100 less than median flow. The hydrograph had a very significant pulse in February where it was 1730 ft3/s as compared to the median for that date of ≈400.
USGS Gage at Farad, CA.
Inanycase use that free government data while you still can.
Marianne Denton
the mountain is thinking.
very chilly today, the lake is still only 8° C & the trout are not "on" yet, altho i had a few good bites that i couldn't stay connected to, & one to the net. A few chironomids hatching off. No tree swallows yet, no birdsong heard yet. One pied-billed grebe, one eagle.
