https://www.jakobshockey.com/posts daily 0.75 2020-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50e66002321b0001962132/1604810154027-GG1ZNWAW4EWUMPQNA6HO/IMG_6087.jpeg Posts https://www.jakobshockey.com/posts/introducing-the-beaver-coalition monthly 0.5 2020-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50e66002321b0001962132/1606662685574-NGF7S9F058GN3AW3CKES/TBC+blog+01.jpg Posts - Introducing The Beaver Coalition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50e66002321b0001962132/1606662787201-B5GDFS27C6O9W2DE6X09/TBC+blog+03.jpg Posts - Introducing The Beaver Coalition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50e66002321b0001962132/1606663035693-6758DKCGCH5MTAIQ9UGU/TBC+blog+06.jpg Posts - Introducing The Beaver Coalition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50e66002321b0001962132/1606663114504-RX3PFO63C7LHD8HJXH44/TBC+blog+07.jpg Posts - Introducing The Beaver Coalition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50e66002321b0001962132/1606662875323-14RPDIW3ZGDV8B1MOTEK/TBC+blog+04.jpg Posts - Introducing The Beaver Coalition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50e66002321b0001962132/1606662902247-9ZXOGKRFZIRYUNH2J5TN/TBC+blog+05.jpg Posts - Introducing The Beaver Coalition https://www.jakobshockey.com/posts/dark-history monthly 0.5 2020-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50e66002321b0001962132/1606663966053-0TEM3A8DV6SH7BGVUUVU/7029203_orig.jpg Posts - Dark History Harlow Cabin on Elliot Creek https://www.jakobshockey.com/posts/vvlslvva4xwys09mkdmh5fyex05y9e monthly 0.5 2020-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50e66002321b0001962132/1605479812812-Z0M0KQ27T6EF983Z2K69/CapturedPygmySloth.jpg Posts - Conservation or Kidnapping? 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Photo by Jakob Shockey https://www.jakobshockey.com/support daily 0.75 2024-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50e66002321b0001962132/32466466-65ad-4f35-a163-d0b323de7f02/04202023_Letter.jpeg Support - Handwritten letters in my search of truth, community and grace. Support by subscribing to my Substack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50e66002321b0001962132/1609730652446-G4167U86TD9X1ZIS4AP7/IMG_1066.jpg Support - Project Beaver Back this team of pragmatic dreamers in our bid to change the world. We would be honored to have your support. https://www.jakobshockey.com/about daily 1.0 2024-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50e66002321b0001962132/5df0c62f-6cc9-4536-8be3-0eb35709885e/IMG_5632.jpeg About - About Jakob A human, father, and husband. Values community, truth, awareness, and grace. Works primarily with beavers and people. Sings to himself, loves flying kites and can’t spell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50e66002321b0001962132/1603944236310-OL53E2AL0CCR5LIX4BS5/IMG_6087.jpeg About https://www.jakobshockey.com/pygmy-sloths daily 0.75 2020-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50e66002321b0001962132/1605418340282-2UU33ZIE6Q61FMUB94HJ/DSCN1624.jpg Pygmy Sloths The habitat In a survey of red mangrove thickets, we found only a total of 10.67 hectors upon the island. These mangroves were clumped around the Northeastern side of the island, and often fragmented by upland forest or logging. They exists only in the brackish intertidal zone, in a heavy silt mud that can be waste deep or firm to walk on. Other then pygmy sloths, we observed eyelash vipers, iguanas, birds (including the Escudo hummingbird and Escudo wren), many many crabs, and a boa constrictor within the mangroves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50e66002321b0001962132/1605466193516-PIGMLYZ078RH93ZP4MNQ/SCAN0069-2.jpeg Pygmy Sloths Abstract Our objective was to ascertain the population status of the Pygmy Three-toed Sloth, Bradypus pygmaeus, an IUCN Critically Endangered species, on Isla Escudo de Veraguas, Panama. Bradypus pygmaeus are thought to be folivorous mangrove specialists; therefore we conducted a visual systematic survey of all 10 mangrove thickets on the island. The total mangrove habitat area was measured to be 10.67 ha, comprising 0.024% of the total island area. The population survey found low numbers of B. pygmaeus in the mangrove thickets and far lower numbers outside of them. The connectivity of subpopulations between these thickets on the island is not established, as B. pygmaeus movement data is still lacking. We found 79 individuals of B. pygmaeus; 70 were found in mangroves and 9 were observed just beyond the periphery of the mangroves in non-mangrove tree species. Low population number, habitat fragmentation and habitat loss could lead to inbreeding, a loss of genetic diversity, and extinction of B. pygmaeus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50e66002321b0001962132/1605466107238-NRA19QH3PNY6BS15IO52/Image0003_6-3.jpg Pygmy Sloths The species In 2001, the late researcher named Charles O. Handley Jr, and the young scientist Robert P. Anderson, published a paper that named the sloth of Isla Escudo de Veraguas “Bradypus pygmaeus, new species”. This decision was based on primarily it's significantly smaller size and the distinct coloration of its hair (or pelage). Since that paper, there has been little studied into how the life history traits of B. pygmaeus differ from the mainland three-toed sloth, B. variegates. However, given their dietary specialization on mangroves and evolution within the constrained habitat of these intertidal thickets, I suspect there are significant divergences. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50e66002321b0001962132/1605418392747-QL1Q2VQCU7F95DUIMNFU/Image0001_2-2.jpg Pygmy Sloths The island Isla Escudo de Veraguas, Panama. This is small island (just 4.3 km2) is located 17.6 km into the Caribbean and lays within the indigenous Ngöbe-Buglé Comarca region of Panama. It is a low neotropical island of dense underbrush, mangrove swamps and a coral reef that wraps thickly around the Northern coast. Isla Escudo supports many endemic species including the pygmy three-toed sloth. There are a few small fishing camps that are occasionally inhabited by fishermen who come primarily to dive for lobster, which is sold to the neighboring Bocas del Toro region's tourist industry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50e66002321b0001962132/1605418510360-NV1ZHIL8BJBOL7G77QX7/P1030395.jpg Pygmy Sloths The human context Isla Escudo is thought by some to be the mythic birthplace of the Ngobe people and has been visited only by them for decades. However, the diversity of Escudo de Veraguas has much to offer science. As the international scientific and conservation community, it is important for our continued presence to help conserve this diversity. We can help by creating local economic incentive for the conservation of Escudo de Veraguas, and encourage its protection simply by employing the community’s resources for lodging, boat travel and local expertise during future research projects. 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These grows bring boutique fertilizer stores, cheap weed and a Fall migration of slightly disheveled “trimmigrants” to our area, but many also bring deadly harm to this valley’s wildlife through their use of common rat poisons... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50e66002321b0001962132/1606674097371-R28JSW5JIYNNW5MC7G8C/Local+Farmers_Shockey.jpg Articles - Thinking for ourselves: Taking back Wildlife Conservation Winter 2013 Conservationist Aldo Leopold once wrote, “All the regulations in the world will not save our game unless the farmer sees fit to leave his land in a habitable condition for game.” He was writing in 1930, but today this statement still stands. Replace the words game with wildlife, and farmer with landowner, and this could have been written about the Applegate... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50e66002321b0001962132/1606673014183-IK6H2XFJBAO9LERKS4RJ/hawk.jpg Articles - Grow with Respect Spring 2016 So you’ve moved to the Applegate, with the plan to “grow” this year. You’re from Florida, New York, or Texas, and rented a house with some old pastureland or with a place for a greenhouse. Maybe you’re just on a hillside and plan on clearing out that manzinita and bulldozing some terraces. The green-rush is on... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50e66002321b0001962132/1606673238816-42R38DVS5WS7XKEWJIL0/bullfrog_Shockey.jpg Articles - The Problem with Bullfrogs Fall 2015 In the mid 1800’s, as streams of migrants poured into Southern Oregon and Northern California, driven by their hunger for gold, they brought with them another unrelenting appetite–for food. As the first waves of fortune seekers arrived into areas with no agriculture and limited supplies, they turned en masse to the landscape to fill their bellies... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50e66002321b0001962132/1606673594455-LDYETRUXT6VA4F4TLWNR/applegateforests_shockey.jpg Articles - Applegate Forests, a Product of Human Tinkering Fall 2014 This summer I’ve been working with The Nature Conservancy, poking around for how the forests in the Applegate existed pre-white settlement when we started fighting wildfire. I grew up here, and heard about how the exclusion of wildfire had changed our forests. This summer it has been striking to see the hard “on-the-ground” proof of that transformation... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50e66002321b0001962132/1606674267280-9NRYIM8JB9PE4UZW28LK/Beaver_shockey.jpg Articles - Beaver in the Applegate Spring 2013 In 1826 - 27, a Canadian fur trapper named Peter Skene Ogden became the first white explorer to document the valleys of southwestern Oregon when Ogden was appointed by Hudson’s Bay Company to lead a series of mass beaver- trapping expeditions, called the Snake River Expeditions. The goal was to leave no live beaver behind... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50e66002321b0001962132/1606673410655-L2UV6XNGVK5F79ZXBI6K/cohojuv_shockey.jpg Articles - High Extinction risk for Applegate Coho Spring 2015 This past November, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) released their Final Recovery Plan for our region’s coho salmon. 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