Eshom Ecological Restoration Project: A Success Story for Shared Stewardship and Innovative Solutions
GBI recently was asked by CAL FIRE to contribute to an exciting project documenting successful effort to contribute to the health of California’s forests. CAL FIRE is creating an ArcGIS-based story map identifying and promoting contributions of CAL FIRE’s fuels reduction projects, grant-funded efforts, and forest health treatments on wildfire behavior, community safety, forest health, […]
GBI Among Recipients of a Regional Forester’s Honor Award for Work on Caldor Post Fire Recovery
On December 14, 2022, Tyler Schroyer, Forestry Stewardship Coordinator for GBI, traveled to Sacramento to represent the Institute at the 2022 Regional Forester’s Honor Award ceremony, and to accept the award granted to GBI for its effort on Caldor Post Fire Recovery and Disaster Relief. This honor was shared with a collaborative team comprised of […]
GBI Media Contest December 2022 Submissions
Bleak. The word doesn’t necessarily conjure the loveliest images. And it must be admitted that many of the places GBI personnel work might be considered desolate by the uninitiated, especially during the cold winter months. But we see the sometimes hidden beauty of these spaces, and with December’s media contest theme, “Embrace the bleakness,” we […]
GBI Media Contest November 2022 Submissions
We love autumn. The season brings an especially poignant beauty out of our natural landscapes, one that reminds us both of change and of the ever-recurring cycle of nature. In this spirit, November’s media contest theme was “Legends of the Fall.” As usual, our field personnel did not disappoint, as evidenced by the images below, […]
Sequoia Wildlife Photography: A Gallery by Nicole Dart
We’re always excited to receive images from the field, and we love to share those with readers so that they can see something of the experiences, the locales, the flora, and the fauna that our field personnel encounter on a regular basis. We were blown away, then, when GBI Research Associate Nicole Dart sent us […]
Partnering with the California Tahoe Conservancy
GBI is proud to announce that we have entered into a new partnership with the California Tahoe Conservancy. Established in 1985, the Conservancy is a California state agency, which owns and manages approximately 6,500 acres of land, with the stated purpose of “protecting the natural environment and promoting public recreation and access to Lake Tahoe.” […]
Program Spotlight: Basin & Range Forestry
Today we spotlight GBI’s Basin & Range Forestry program (BRF). This forestry program partners with the USFS to complete projects which include improving forest health, surveying and data collection, large scale stewardship contracting, and post fire recovery projects. We deploy crews to work on forests all throughout the Sierra Nevadas, from Sequoia National Forest and […]
IF/THEN STEAM Fair Comes to San Diego Comic-Con
When one thinks of the Great Basin Institute, the San Diego Comic-Con is perhaps not the first thing that comes to mind. But lo and behold, we did indeed have a presence at this year’s convention in the form of GBI Research Associate Samantha Wynns, who has been consistently involved in exciting, unique projects, often […]
GBI Media Contest July 2022 Submissions
The theme for July’s media contest was “America the Beautiful”. Well, that’s certainly something that our field personnel would know about. GBI deploys people in places throughout the West with such stunning sights that we are constantly reminded of what makes the work that we do so valuable. The winner of the contest is Katie […]
Preserving Historic Structures in Mojave National Preserve
Nature, left to its own devices, is self-perpetuating. Not so man-made structures. And so GBI’s mission to advance applied research and ecological literacy applies not only to our natural resources, but also to our cultural resources. Take, for example, the historic Rock Springs Land and Cattle Company Headquarters Building at Barnwell and the Telegraph Operator’s […]
