A view of the Alaska Range from Polychrome Pass, Denali National Park, Alaska, United States, 2016 May 22 Some fungi, Lowell Point, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, United States, 2016 May 17 Kenai Lake, near Cooper Landing, Kenai Penninsula, Alaska, United States, 2016 May 14 Kinnikinnick, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, near Cooper Landing, Kenai Penninsula, Alaska, United States, 2016 May 14 Tulip popular, Liriodendron tulipifera, leaf on the sidewalk resembles a snarky cat, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, United States, 2015 October 10 Fungi, Hinckley Reservation, Ohio, United States, 2014 October 25 Big Pine Lakes, Eastern Sierra, California, United States, 2013 August 18 Grand Tetons, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States, 2013 August 03 Flies or fairies, whatever were buzzing around our headlights while we were making camp near a lake in Idaho, United States, 2013 August 02 Chris with Sue, the the largest, most complete, and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered, Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 2013 June 29 Long-nosed leopard lizard, Gambelia wislizenii, Highway 6, central Nevada, United States, 2013 May 26 Lunar Crater, Palisade Mesa Wilderness Study Area, Nevada, United States, 2013 May 26 Two-tailed swallowtail, Papilio multicaudata, Austin, Nevada, United States, 2013 May 25 Monkeyflower, Mimulus sp., along Highway 6, central Nevada, United States, 2013 May 25 Lichens are a makeup of two or more mutualistic symbiotic organisms, Fallon, Nevada, United States, 2013 May 16 Morro Rock, Morro Bay, California, United States, 2013 March 23 Matt Forister's butterfly collection, Reno, Nevada, United States, 2013 January 29 Will Lumpkin's beetle collection, Reno, Nevada, United States, 2013 January 25 Experimental burn, Little Valley, Nevada, United States, 2012 November 27 Quaking aspen, Populus tremuloides, leaves on the forest floor in autumn, Little Valley, Nevada, United States, 2012 November 07 Toothpicks denoting where seeds would be buried for a burn experiment I ran, Little Valley, Nevada, United States, 2012 October 20 Bonny Doon manzanita, Arctostaphylos silvicola, fruit, Mt. Hermon, California, United States, 2012 July23 Common manzanita, Arctostaphylos manzanita, in coyote, Canis latrans, scat, Mt. Diablo, California, United States, 2012 July 25 Banana slug, Ariolimax sp., Santa Cruz, California, United States, 2012 June 23 Western sheepmoth, Hemileuca eglanterina, Little Valley, Nevada, United States, 2012 June 22 Sierran Treefrog, Pseudacris sierra, Little Valley, Nevada, United States, 2012 June 15 Mating greenish blue butterflies, Plebejus saepiolus, Little Valley, Nevada, United States, 2012 June 15 Male greenish blue butterfly, Plebejus saepiolus, Little Valley, Nevada, United States, 2012 June 15 Pale swallowtail, Papilio eurymedon, Little Valley, Nevada, United States, 2012 June 15 A view of Lake Tahoe after hiking out of Little Valley, Nevada, United States, 2012 June 10 Line-intercept transect through chaparral (mostly greenleaf manzanita, Arctostaphylos patula, and snowbrush, Ceanothus velutinus), Franktown Road, west slope of Washoe Valley, Nevada, United States, 2012 June 09 Eggs of a member of the insect order Hemiptera, Little Valley, Nevada, United States, 2012 June 08 Mountain gartersnake, Thamnophis elegans, Little Valley, Nevada, United States, 2012 June 02 Member of the insect order Coleoptera, with Dr. Josh Jahner in the background, Franktown Road, west slope of Washoe Valley, Nevada, 2012 June 02 Tiger moth in the Arctiidae family, Little Valley, Nevada, United States, 2012 June 02 Primrose monkeyflower, Mimulus primuloides, meadow, Little Valley, Nevada, United States, 2012 June 02 Somewhere off Highway 50, "The lonliest Highway," Central Nevada, United States, 2012 April 22 Glandular haris, Pringle manzanita, Arctostaphylos pringlei ssp. pringlei, San Jacinto, California, 2012 March 31 Pringle manzanita, Arctostaphylos pringlei ssp. pringlei, with an impressive display of its inflorescences, San Jacinto, California, United States, 2012 March 31 Data sheet, collection from San Francisco, California, United States, 2012 March 28 Sunset and shoreline looking toward Point Conception, an important biogeographic point, California, 2012 March 23 San Bruno Mountain manzanita, Arctostaphylos imbricata, with the city of San Francisco in the background, San Mateo County, California, United States, 2012 March 21 Checker lily, Fritillaria affinis, San Bruno Mountain, California, United States, 2012 March 21 El Capitan at dusk, Yosemite National Park, California, United States, 2012 January 14 Whiteleaf manzanita, Arctostaphylos viscida, in the foreground with Half Dome in the background, Yosemite National Park, California, United States, 2012 January 14 Radioactively-labeled seeds for my research at the University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, United States, 2011 September 30 Short-eared Owl, Asio flammeus, Twinlakes Road, Bridgeport, California, United States, 2011 December 14 Common Poorwill, Phalaenoptilus nuttallii, Loch Leven Lakes, Sierra Nevada, California, United States, 2011 August 20 Sierra tiger lily, Lilium parvum, Loch Leven Lakes, Sierra Nevada, California, United States, 2011 August 20 Sierra tiger lily, Lilium parvum, Little Valley, Nevada, United States, 2011 July 11 Sierra bog orchid, Platanthera dilatata, America bistort, Polygonum bistortoides, Indian paintbrush, Castilleja sp., in a meadow, Little Valley, Nevada, United States, 2011 July 17 A comma butterfly, Polygonia comma, on a bigleaf lupine, Lupinus polyphyllus, Little Valley, Nevada, United States, 2011 July 17 Common Buckeye, Junonia coenia, on a meadow penstemon, Penstemon rydbergii, Little Valley, Nevada, United States, 2011 July 16 Ants tending aphids, Little Valley, Nevada, United States, 2011 July 16 A cluster of greenleaf manzanita, Arctostaphylos patula seedlings emerging following a fire, Little Valley, Nevada, United States, 2011 July 16 Crimson columbine, Aquilegia formosa, Little Valley, Nevada, United States, 2011 July 13 A member of the insect order Coleoptera interacting with a flower of an American bistort, Polygonum bistortoides, Little Valley, Nevada, United States, 2011 July 13 Sego lily, Calochortus nuttallii, Little Valley, Nevada, United States, 2011 July 11 Brown's peony, Paeonia brownii, Little Valley, Nevada, United States, 2011 June 29 Jack-in-the-pulpit, Arisaema triphyllum, Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States, 2011 May 29 American Bison, Bison bison, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States, 2011 May 25 Datura sp. at sunrise on Kelbaker Road in the Mojave National Preserve, Mojave Desert, California, United States, 2011 May 23 In from of Dire wolf, Canis dirus, skulls excavated from tar, La Brea Tar Pits & Museum, Los Angeles, California, United States, 2011 March 19 Botanizing in Anza-Borrego, California, United States, 2011 March 17 Desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii, Kelbaker Road, Mojave National Preserve, California, United States, 2011 March 16 Fiddlehead, Amsinkia sp., near Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California, United States, 2011 March 16 Diana's Punch Bowl, Nevada, United Sates, 2010 December 12 Toquima Range from Monitor Valley, Nevada, United States, 2010 December 11 Toiyabe Range from Big Smoky Valley, Nevada, United States, 2010 December 12 Locating dispersed radioactively-labeled seeds using a Geiger counter, Little Valley, Nevada, United States, 2010 October 17 Experimental excoluse to prevent rodents from entering, but allowing other vertebrates to access greenleaf manzanita, Arctostaphylos patula, fruits, Little Valley, Nevada, United States, 2010 September 10 Striped whipsnake, Masticophis taeniatus, Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, Nevada, United States, May Day 2010 Desert spiny lizard, Sceloperus magister, Nye County, Nevada, United States, in 2010 April 24 Evening primrose, Oenethera sp., west of Ridgecrest, California, United States, 2010 April 17 Scarlet milkvetch, Astragalus coccineus, Alabama Hills, California, United States, 2010 April 17 California poppies, Eschscholzia californica, west of Ridgecrest, California, United States, 2010 April 17 Monkshood, Acontium columbianum, Spooner Lake, Nevada, United States, 2009 July 21 Lab field work with Scott Stephen's research group in the Sierra San Pedro Mártir, Mexico, 2009 July 18 A member of the insect order Hymenoptera ostensibly pollinating a purple sage, Salvia dorrii, Sierra San Pedro Mártir, Mexico, 2009 July 16 Using fluorescent powder to track seeds dispersed by rodents in the Sierra San Pedro Mártir, Mexico, 2009 July 14 A honey bee, Apis mellifera looking really confused on a chamice flower, Adenostoma fasciculatum 2009 June 15 Spotted coralroot, Corallorhiza maculata, in California, United States, 2009 June 06 Processing a captured female black bear, Ursus americanus, with the Nevada Division of Wildlife, Little Valley, Nevada, United States, 2009 June 05 My collection and accession UC1973803 at Jepson Herbarium, purple sage, Salvia dorrii, collected from Nevada, United States, 2009 June 03 Mount Rose, Nevada, United States, 2009 March 06 Sunset, Mid Hills, California, United States, 2009 January 09 Processing a captured wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus, Schiermonnikoog, Netherlands, 2008 December 22 Geoffroy's tamarin, Saguinus geoffroyi, Gamboa, Panama, 2008 July 20 Hourglass treefrog, Dendropsophus ebraccatus, Gamboa, Panama, 2008 July 15 "A member of the insect order Hemiptera, Gamboa, Panama, 2008 July 13 Herbivores of the insect order Coleoptera, Parque Nacional San Lorenzo, Panama, 2008 June 20 Working in a canopy crane, Parque Nacional San Lorenzo, Panama, 2008 June 11 Brown-throated sloth, Bradypus variegatus, Parque Nacional San Lorenzo, Panama, 2008 June 09 Heliotropium curassavicum off Kelbaker Road in the Mojave Desert, Mojave National Preserve, California, United States, 2008 May 24 Western side-blotched lizard, Uta stansburiana, Zzyzx, California, United States, 2008 April 26 An emerging Basidomycete, Mid Hills, Mojave National Preserve, California, United States, 2007 October 06 Post-predeation event by the southern grasshopper mouse, Onychomys torridus, where it placed the abdomen of a pinacate beetle, Eleodes sp., into the ground so it would not release malodorous secretion and the mouse can just eat its head and thorax, Zzyzx, California, United States, 2007 September 30 A member of the insect order Odonata attracted with a Mercury vapor lamp, Desert Studies Center, Zzyzx, California, United States, 2007 September 28 Coachwhip, Masticophis flagellum, Zzyzx, California, United States, 2007 September 22 A captured Merriam's kangaro rat, Dipodomys merriami, with external fur-lined cheek pouches filled with the seeds we used to bait the trap, Mid Hills, California, United States, 2007 July 05 Pallid bat, Antrozous pallidus, Desert Studies Center, Zzyzx, California, United States, 2007 May 29 Merriam's kangaroo rat, Dipodomys merriami, Zzyzx, California, United States, 2007 May 05 Dune evening primrose, Oenethera deltoides, Mid Hills, Mojave National Preserve, California, United States, 2007 April 15 Kingcup cactus, Ecachinocereus triglochidiatus, near Mid Hills, Mojave National Preserve, California, United States, 2007 April 15 Sagebrush lizard, Sceloporus graciosus, Zzyzx, California, United States, 2006 September 30 A captured Panamint kangaroo rat, Dipodomys panamintinus, with external fur-lined cheek pouches filled with the seeds we used to bait the trap, Mid Hills, California, United States, 2006 June 28 Joshua trees, Yucca brevifolia, on Macedonia Canyon Road, Mojave National Preserve, California, United States, 2006 June 21