Catalyzing Watershed Restoration on National Forest Lands

Posted on July 8, 2024July 9, 2024 by Madeline Gupta

Alex will focus his summer on two projects with the National Forest Foundation (NFF). With half his time, Alex is conducting a stakeholder assessment and developing outreach materials to better understand and engage with landowners and water rights holders around restoring the natural processes of headwater streams in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley. While this summer’s Read more about Catalyzing Watershed Restoration on National Forest Lands[…]

Tanged Up in Seasons—Alex Wells

Posted on July 8, 2024July 8, 2024 by Madeline Gupta

This past May, I traveled back in time.  From the top of East Rock Park, the stately houses and university buildings of New Haven barely poked out from beneath an overflow of green leaves. It was early May, but it already felt like summer in Connecticut. Seven days later, I’d returned to early April, the Read more about Tanged Up in Seasons—Alex Wells[…]

A How-To Guide for Beaver Monitoring—Alex Wells

Posted on May 13, 2024May 19, 2024 by Madeline Gupta

May is here, bringing with it the end of a semester and the end of my time working as a UHPSI Research Assistant in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy Wyoming’s Tensleep Preserve. Even as Wyoming has been re-blanketed in snow, every maple and oak tree in New Haven has spun out fresh fractals of green Read more about A How-To Guide for Beaver Monitoring—Alex Wells[…]

Muddying the Water—Alex Wells

Posted on January 31, 2024February 1, 2024 by Madeline Gupta

Let’s say that you live in northeast Nevada and ranch a stretch of sagebrush watered by a small cottonwood-lined creek. Or that you make your living from your senior water rights and an orderly orchard of fruit trees in western Colorado. Or that you grow alfalfa just north of the Gallatin Range in Montana, your Read more about Muddying the Water—Alex Wells[…]

A Monitoring Plan for Beaver Wellbeing and Hydrologic Impacts

Posted on January 20, 2024May 13, 2024 by Madeline Gupta

Effective ecological monitoring is a critical component of managing ecosystems in a way that balances the needs of people and wildlife. In collaboration with The Nature Conservancy – Wyoming (TNC) and the Water for Wildlife Foundation, UHPSI research assistant Alex Wells is developing a monitoring plan that will evaluate both beaver wellbeing and the impacts Read more about A Monitoring Plan for Beaver Wellbeing and Hydrologic Impacts[…]