Life Sciences

Santa Rosa Junior College BearCubs are movers. We hit the beaches, swim the waters, hike the hills and climb the mountains. We also compete in debate, soccer, football, basketball,track, tennis,swimming,etc

Summer 2001

  Sonoma Forests

Redwoods paper in Word .doc format

  the Sonoma Coast

Mussels with a French flavor in pdf format

Mussel Reproductive Cycle Paper by Doug Fisk as a Word .doc

  Plumas Co. Forests & Flowers

Plumas Plant List in pdf (125 pages with photos)

Phytophthera & Public Policy Paper by Doug Fisk in html format

Selected Vascular Plant List || DB || of the Plumas NF.

UCB Digital Library Project:Botany Images

ITIS Integrated Taxonomy Information Service

CAS C)alifornia A)cademy of S)cience  

UCB Division Forestry and Resource Management part of the UCB College of Natural Resources
and the Environmental Science Planning and Management (ESPM) Department.

Ignacio Chapela. UCB SOD (Sudden Oak Death and Forest Mycology Research Lab

Prof._Steve_Barnhart

Prof._Peter_Leveque

The_UCDavis_MarineBiologyLab Bodega_Bay

MeadowLakes, BakerForest 

UCBerkeley ForestCamp

LeConte/Muir_Sierra_Ramblings

Plumas_NF. Northern_High Sierra_Nevada

Forest_Fires:

Two_High_Rise_Views_from_River: 

A_nytimes_view_of_the_West 

Wildfires_in_the_West. 

Section_4:

Oregon_Pioneers: Fisk_Forrest_Finlan_F³

  "Forrest"&Cattle  County:_The_Oxbow_Ranch."Up Strawberry_Creek"

Prairie_City.Grant_Co_OR_History

Ralph_Fisk:An_early_Pioneer's_Trail-Tale

An_Eastern_{_}Oregon_Map  Nathan_&_Esther_Fisk_Country

The_Ashland_Turner_Wedding &_Fisk_Family_Reunion

 2001-07-28:_TheSeventhGenerationEdition

TheTurnerWeddingAshland_2001

The_Fisk_Family: An Expanding Saga:

Wayne Fisk: An Oregon Original

The_Oregon_Trail_&_Beyond

by_Mark_David_Goddard

  The_Fisk/Goddard_Tree

More_Fisk_Stuff_with_Damon 

Esse quam videri: (To be, rather than to seem)

   The Turner Wedding & Fisk Family History are at the bottom left of this page.

  The theme of this page is a mix of natural science,  frontier culture family narrative and the new ethos of ecology. The science of ecologic blending of carbon, water and energy cycles; to that is added the cyclic saga of a western frontier human family.  In this instance that story is about a courageous and energetic pioneering spirit that seeks challenge in the westward quest. That journey finds  sustaining satisfaction and survival in the enduring values of competence, courage, trust, kinship and friendship. The result is a story that is both timeless, uniquely American and part of the epic tale of an east to west migration.

  In the final analysis, in the West, conservation, sustainability and ecology  are  all about Rocks, Energy & Water (as in Klamath Lake and River)! In a word, as Paul Krugman has demonstrated, geography is economic destiny.  Given that,  we can rational discuss the  issues of  sound public policy and sane management of the "commons"  for long term, public benefit.  Much  of the stage crafted decision analysis( "the part only the experts  understand"), complex system modeling ("fancy graphics that can hid both the data and the assumptions of the algorithms") and media rhetoric tricks. The tactics are clear and time tested: create and atmosphere of crisis, appeal to emotion, use powerful  symbols and metaphors, and promote solutions that as quick, simple, permanent and  perfect.  The result is delay or deferral of what is possible, practical, concrete and pragmatic; the triumph of fanciful utopian dreams over reality.  At bottom, perhaps nature study & ecology can foil the posturing of style at the expense of substance . Esse quam videri

The alternative to uncommon sense is a string of long-term potholes: namely,  the unintended consequences of single issue advocacy enshrined in federal legislation like the ESA and agencies like the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Two recent examples are the loss of human life to wild forest fires in Washington State and the crop losses in Oregon's  previously irrigated and productive, but now parched, Klamath Basin just north of the California, Siskiou County border.  Jobs, the quality of human life and promises to WW II veterans living, working and reclaiming appear to some to have been sacrificed by federally sanctioned sucker policies and down stream, ie, California wildlife/economic/cultural interests.

"One's view of the world is determined by where you happen to be standing at the time."

This space is intended to serve as a student  resource center for three intersession  field classes taken from the Life Sciences Department, SRJC  prior to the beginning of the  Summer Session  2001 .

The first was "The Forest Ecology and Flora of Sonoma County";  the second was "The Intertidal Marine Biology of the Sonoma Coast";  the third was "The Forest Ecology of the Northern High Sierra and Flora of the Plumas National Forest" based at the UC Berkeley ,Division of Forestry, Undergraduate Summer  Camp at the Baker Forest near Quincy, CA.

While Internet based, no data collection or mining is conducted using the information you enter. The information is only for class related purposes like getting to know your fellow class mates.  Class activities, resources , tests and graphics can be posted at this location.

  An Ecology page with an Oceans focus  is the natural  parent of this offering.Windows98/ME/2000/XP, IE 5.5, a soundcard, Acrobat Reader 5.0 and a broadband connection to the Internet are recommended for optimizing your experience.

Class appropriate, fun quizzes will be added  in due course. In the mean time, try your luck on this example featuring the coast redwood, the symbol of the Redwood Empire of the north bay region. || Quiz ||.

Forests and Marine

Biology are linked

Wildlife is linked to the Biosphere

Ecology Sciences

encourages a comprehensive world view.