Lauren Ellenbecker

May 7, 2024 | columbian.com | Lauren Ellenbecker |Columbia Insight

Over a century ago, settlers irreversibly altered the Pacific Coast’s natural shape with the introduction of two nonnative grass species. Now, a new hybrid is making headway, presenting challenges for dune restoration. “In the U.S. Pacific Northwest, two invasive, dune-building beachgrasses, Ammophila arenaria (European beachgrass) and A. breviligulata (American beachgrass), have hybridized and formed a new beachgrass taxa (Ammophila arenaria×A.

May 3, 2024 | chinookobserver.com | Lauren Ellenbecker

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May 2, 2024 | columbiainsight.org | Lauren Ellenbecker

By Lauren Ellenbecker. May 2, 2024. Over a century ago, settlers irreversibly altered the Pacific Coast’s natural shape with the introduction of two nonnative grass species. Now, a new hybrid is making headway, presenting challenges for dune restoration. “In the U.S. Pacific Northwest, two invasive, dune-building beachgrasses, Ammophila arenaria (European beachgrass) and A. breviligulata (American beachgrass), have hybridized and formed a new beachgrass taxa (Ammophila arenaria×A.

Apr 9, 2024 | bigcountrynewsconnection.com | Lauren Ellenbecker

The call came at 4 on a morning in October 2022. Paul Kalchik was a member of a Larch Corrections Center firefighting crew that was roused out of bed early to respond to a 2-acre fire on the south side of Larch Mountain, near Nakia Creek. For two weeks, from dawn to dusk, Kalchik and his crewmates carved deep into the earth, trimmed brush and extinguished hot forest debris in their path. Then, east winds fanned the last smoldering embers into a 2,000-acre conflagration, forcing crews to retreat.

Apr 8, 2024 | tdn.com | Lauren Ellenbecker

The call came at 4 on a morning in October 2022. Paul Kalchik was a member of a Larch Corrections Center firefighting crew that was roused out of bed early to respond to a 2-acre fire on the south side of Larch Mountain, near Nakia Creek. For two weeks, from dawn to dusk, Kalchik and his crewmates carved deep into the earth, trimmed brush and extinguished hot forest debris in their path. Then, east winds fanned the last smoldering embers into a 2,000-acre conflagration, forcing crews to retreat.