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Articles by Maya Khosla
Do Giant Sequoias Regenerate in Large Crown Fire Patches?
1 Introduction The giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum), the world's most massive tree species, is a serotinous conifer (Harvey et al. 1980; Weatherspoon 1990; Harvey and Shellhammer 1991) for which seed release is almost exclusively triggered by fire. This evolutionary trait originated approximately 120–65 million years ago for modern conifer species, and much earlier for ancestor species (He et al. 2016; Lamont et al. 2019, 2020).
Postfire reproduction of a serotinous conifer, the giant sequoia, in the Nelder Grove, California
1 INTRODUCTION Globally among conifers, the association with high-severity fire for effective reproduction, known as serotiny, originated approximately 120–65 million years ago for modern conifer species and 350 million years ago for ancestor species (He et al., 2016; Lamont et al., 2019, 2020). Traits associated with serotiny evolved in response to strong evolutionary selection from high-severity crown fires.
Reproduction of a Serotinous Conifer, the Giant Sequoia, in a Large High-Severity Fire Area
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Northern Goshawks and Fire
Transcript: BirdNote® Northern Goshawks and Fires Written by Maya Khosla This is BirdNote. Imagine yourself among the great firs and Ponderosa pines of Stanislaus National Forest in central California. [Goshawks ambi] [http://macaulaylibrary.org/audio/110168] High-pitched calls of young Northern Goshawks pierce the morning air. As sunlight begins to spill through the trees, the whistling notes grow into clear, insistent calls for food.
Sonoma County’s Poet Laureate reflects on how poetry may help heal tragedy
Maya Khosla — biologist, poet and filmmaker — believes that the natural environment, if left undisturbed, can recover even from fires as devastating as those that have roared through Northern California in recent times. Human beings, however, need emotional release and support. Poetry can help, and poetry read aloud in a group setting can help even more, and the aforementioned, when captured on film, can reach and help even more.
'What the birds know,' a poem by Sonoma County’s Poet Laureate Maya Khosla
What the birds know, by Maya Khosla once we have looked away once we have mourned about the tribe of blackened trees for now and another season and the last long fingers of smoke have been ushered out by wind no one has seen them arrive in such numbers the birds are neither lost nor passing through so were the ways of ancestors as specks in the distance along a known line of hunger against the flow of smoke into the source and its multiple riches others tap like a knock on the door the birds...
Let Wildfires Burn: Study Shows Forests Bounce Back on Their Own
The May sun was still below the mountains when a small group of biologists set out in the brisk morning air of the Sierra Nevada. Comparing contour maps and checking radio channels, Dr. Chad Hanson and his team from the John Muir Project of Earth Island Institute spread out to explore the Stanislaus National Forest, about 160 miles east of San Francisco.
Film: Searching For Gold Spot
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