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“Probability of Tree Survival after wildfire in an interior pine forest of northern California…

Martin W. Ritchie and other researchers at the Black Mountain Experimental Forest (BMEF) analyze the survivability of trees in the…

2 min readMay 1, 2021

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“Probability of Tree Survival after wildfire in an interior pine forest of northern California…

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Marcus Ward

“Effects of Thinning and Prescribed Fire on Wildfire Severity” By Carl N. Skinner

Carl N. Skinner and his team examine the effect of controlled burns and thinning on the Cone fire that burned in September of 2002. The…

2 min readApr 21, 2021

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“Effects of Thinning and Prescribed Fire on Wildfire Severity” By Carl N. Skinner

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Marcus Ward

How To Select A Pond Survey Method.

Sine Netting.

2 min readApr 16, 2021

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How To Select A Pond Survey Method.

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Marcus Ward

Reviving Expertise in a Populist Age By Zach Graves and M. Anthony Mills

This thought-provoking piece is both disturbing and hopeful. As I read this article, I found myself asking: “how can this be true?” “How…

2 min readMar 23, 2021

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Reviving Expertise in a Populist Age By Zach Graves and M. Anthony Mills

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Marcus Ward

A Brief Lesson from the History of Botany: Case Study Abstract.

In the scale of history, science is the most recent advancement in human thought. Science is the culmination of reasoning, observation…

2 min readMar 23, 2021

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A Brief Lesson from the History of Botany: Case Study Abstract.

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Marcus Ward

How to Take Measurements of Fish

Fisheries biologists use Relative Weight (Wr) to determine the growth of a given species of fish. To do this, one needs to take two key…

2 min readMar 18, 2021

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How to Take Measurements of Fish

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Marcus Ward

Barrowman’s “Why Data Is Never Raw” and Toulmin’s Model

In “Why Data Is Never Raw” by Nick Barrowman, the idea that data are inherently objective is examined and scrutinized. Recently the phrase…

2 min readFeb 21, 2021

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Barrowman’s “Why Data Is Never Raw” and Toulmin’s Model

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Marcus Ward

When Science Leaps Before it Looks

When I first read Daniel Searwitz’s “Saving Science,” I immediately thought of the combined effort to create an image of the M87 Super…

2 min readFeb 10, 2021

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When Science Leaps Before it Looks

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Marcus Ward

Aldo Leopold’s “Thinking Like a Mountain”

Aldo Leopold was an American forester and is considered the Father of Wildlife Biology. In “Think Like a Mountain,” Leopold penned one of…

1 min readFeb 9, 2021

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Aldo Leopold’s “Thinking Like a Mountain”

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Marcus Ward

How to Set a Wildlife Camera Trap.

Surveying techniques for wildlife have come a long way from the days of Capture, Mark, and Recapture. Camera traps are the most recent…

2 min readFeb 5, 2021

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How to Set a Wildlife Camera Trap.

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Marcus Ward

Marcus Ward

I currently work as a Fishery Technician. I studied wildlife biology at College of the Ozarks, and I share my writings to this site.

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