Max Lambert
@maxlambert.bsky.social
Conservation scientist working on wildlife, cities, farmland, wildlands, clean energy, equity, and justice
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Max Lambert
@maxlambert.bsky.social
· Jun 21
Housing or trees? Science says "why not both?"
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We need housing. We also needs trees. Our new study across western Washington finds gaining housing at the expense of trees is not inevitable.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#conservation #housing #biodiversity #winwin
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We need housing. We also needs trees. Our new study across western Washington finds gaining housing at the expense of trees is not inevitable.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#conservation #housing #biodiversity #winwin
🦫Beavers🦫 have been getting a lot of attention in recent years, but do they actually matter for water and climate resilience throughout western North America?
We scoured the #science on (1) beaver reintroductions and (2)beaver mimicry - check it out
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We scoured the #science on (1) beaver reintroductions and (2)beaver mimicry - check it out
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Beaver‐related restoration and freshwater climate resilience across western North America
Climate change will diminish the quality and connectivity of stream and riparian habitats and threaten native stream-associated species across western North America. Ecological restoration that mitig...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
🦫Beavers🦫 have been getting a lot of attention in recent years, but do they actually matter for water and climate resilience throughout western North America?
We scoured the #science on (1) beaver reintroductions and (2)beaver mimicry - check it out
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We scoured the #science on (1) beaver reintroductions and (2)beaver mimicry - check it out
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Max Lambert
Washington can grow solar energy and keep farmland productive. TNC’s agrivoltaics study mapped land, modeled crop impacts, and surveyed 100+ farmers to show how clean energy and agriculture can thrive together. ☀️ 🪴
🔗 Explore the report here to learn more https://nature.ly/48ANwJi
🔗 Explore the report here to learn more https://nature.ly/48ANwJi
October 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Washington can grow solar energy and keep farmland productive. TNC’s agrivoltaics study mapped land, modeled crop impacts, and surveyed 100+ farmers to show how clean energy and agriculture can thrive together. ☀️ 🪴
🔗 Explore the report here to learn more https://nature.ly/48ANwJi
🔗 Explore the report here to learn more https://nature.ly/48ANwJi
Reposted by Max Lambert
Time for enviro NGOs to forge a new strategy that meets the real needs of people while also improving outcomes for nature and climate. "Policies of Plenty" for humans and nature are possible, especially when compared to the no-action scenario (business as usual is a longterm lose-lose) #greensky
Trump's election and rapid-fire dismantling of environmental rules stunned the climate movement into inaction.
Green groups are now re-emerging with contrasting visions for activism that will look different than the Resistance era.
My latest here:
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Green groups are now re-emerging with contrasting visions for activism that will look different than the Resistance era.
My latest here:
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Shell-shocked green movement searches for how to counter Trump
Environmental groups that have watched President Donald Trump shred their climate victories are beset by internal divides, slumping fund-raising and a debate on how to fight back.
www.politico.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Time for enviro NGOs to forge a new strategy that meets the real needs of people while also improving outcomes for nature and climate. "Policies of Plenty" for humans and nature are possible, especially when compared to the no-action scenario (business as usual is a longterm lose-lose) #greensky
I recently carved this 57lb bow from a piece of Pacific yew from the North Cascades and it's a joy to shoot
September 1, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I recently carved this 57lb bow from a piece of Pacific yew from the North Cascades and it's a joy to shoot
Salmon don't need any more problems, but African Clawed Frogs might be a new one. Our newly-published experiment shows that these frogs easily chow down on eggs, alevin, and fry from multiple salmon species
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...
August 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Salmon don't need any more problems, but African Clawed Frogs might be a new one. Our newly-published experiment shows that these frogs easily chow down on eggs, alevin, and fry from multiple salmon species
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...
The loss of outdoor youth jobs in conservation is going to be a hit to Washington's and America's land, water, and wildlife for years to come
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Gen Z wants to work outside, but PNW conservation jobs are vanishing
Young people are eager to work in the outdoors. But federal cuts slashed 1,300 AmeriCorps positions in Washington, and the future of conservation looks bleak.
www.seattletimes.com
August 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The loss of outdoor youth jobs in conservation is going to be a hit to Washington's and America's land, water, and wildlife for years to come
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
HOW we study biodiversity shapes WHAT we understand about biodiversity
We show that trait variability (1) within individuals, (2) among individuals of the same species, and (3) between species changes what we understand about evolution to changing environments
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
We show that trait variability (1) within individuals, (2) among individuals of the same species, and (3) between species changes what we understand about evolution to changing environments
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
August 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
HOW we study biodiversity shapes WHAT we understand about biodiversity
We show that trait variability (1) within individuals, (2) among individuals of the same species, and (3) between species changes what we understand about evolution to changing environments
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
We show that trait variability (1) within individuals, (2) among individuals of the same species, and (3) between species changes what we understand about evolution to changing environments
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Renewable Energy 🤝 Agriculture
💡"Agrivoltaics" 🐄 🫐 means building solar energy so crops and/or livestock can be grown under and between solar panels
We just wrapped up a big study to understand of agrivoltaics are feasible in Washington state
@science.nature.org
www.nature.org/en-us/about-...
💡"Agrivoltaics" 🐄 🫐 means building solar energy so crops and/or livestock can be grown under and between solar panels
We just wrapped up a big study to understand of agrivoltaics are feasible in Washington state
@science.nature.org
www.nature.org/en-us/about-...
Agrivoltaic Feasibility in Washington State
Through a collaboration between The Nature Conservancy and partners, we produced a report on the feasibility of agrivoltaics in Washington state.
www.nature.org
July 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Renewable Energy 🤝 Agriculture
💡"Agrivoltaics" 🐄 🫐 means building solar energy so crops and/or livestock can be grown under and between solar panels
We just wrapped up a big study to understand of agrivoltaics are feasible in Washington state
@science.nature.org
www.nature.org/en-us/about-...
💡"Agrivoltaics" 🐄 🫐 means building solar energy so crops and/or livestock can be grown under and between solar panels
We just wrapped up a big study to understand of agrivoltaics are feasible in Washington state
@science.nature.org
www.nature.org/en-us/about-...
Trails in the Olympics are bursting with berries right now!
July 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Trails in the Olympics are bursting with berries right now!
Emerging from four days pulling dozens of bird song recorders and wildlife cameras from our three coastal TNC forest preserves. I'm grateful to study biodiversity in one of the most beautiful landscapes on Earth. These data will help us understand how wildlife responds to forest restoration
July 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Emerging from four days pulling dozens of bird song recorders and wildlife cameras from our three coastal TNC forest preserves. I'm grateful to study biodiversity in one of the most beautiful landscapes on Earth. These data will help us understand how wildlife responds to forest restoration
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Worth reading!
⚠️📢 New peer-reviewed research finds no evidence to support the myth that increasing density and rezoning systematically contributes to loss of tree canopy.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Building the neighborhood for the trees: Illuminating win–wins for housing densification and nature
Housing is urgently needed for millions of people. How we add that housing will have substantial consequences for ecosystems and for nature's contributions to people. We assess win–wins for adding ho...
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Worth reading!
Reposted by Max Lambert
Housing is urgently needed for millions of people. Lambert et Al share that how we add that housing will have substantial consequences for ecosystems and for nature's contributions to people. In this article, they assess win–wins for adding housing and maintaining nature.
doi.org/10.1111/csp2...
doi.org/10.1111/csp2...
Building the neighborhood for the trees: Illuminating win–wins for housing densification and nature
Housing is urgently needed for millions of people. How we add that housing will have substantial consequences for ecosystems and for nature's contributions to people. We assess win–wins for adding ho....
doi.org
June 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Housing is urgently needed for millions of people. Lambert et Al share that how we add that housing will have substantial consequences for ecosystems and for nature's contributions to people. In this article, they assess win–wins for adding housing and maintaining nature.
doi.org/10.1111/csp2...
doi.org/10.1111/csp2...
Reposted by Max Lambert
⚠️📢 New peer-reviewed research finds no evidence to support the myth that increasing density and rezoning systematically contributes to loss of tree canopy.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Building the neighborhood for the trees: Illuminating win–wins for housing densification and nature
Housing is urgently needed for millions of people. How we add that housing will have substantial consequences for ecosystems and for nature's contributions to people. We assess win–wins for adding ho...
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
⚠️📢 New peer-reviewed research finds no evidence to support the myth that increasing density and rezoning systematically contributes to loss of tree canopy.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Max Lambert
Housing or trees? Science says "why not both?"
🌲 🏡 🏢 🌲
We need housing. We also needs trees. Our new study across western Washington finds gaining housing at the expense of trees is not inevitable.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#conservation #housing #biodiversity #winwin
🌲 🏡 🏢 🌲
We need housing. We also needs trees. Our new study across western Washington finds gaining housing at the expense of trees is not inevitable.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#conservation #housing #biodiversity #winwin
June 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Housing or trees? Science says "why not both?"
🌲 🏡 🏢 🌲
We need housing. We also needs trees. Our new study across western Washington finds gaining housing at the expense of trees is not inevitable.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#conservation #housing #biodiversity #winwin
🌲 🏡 🏢 🌲
We need housing. We also needs trees. Our new study across western Washington finds gaining housing at the expense of trees is not inevitable.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#conservation #housing #biodiversity #winwin
Housing or trees? Science says "why not both?"
🌲 🏡 🏢 🌲
We need housing. We also needs trees. Our new study across western Washington finds gaining housing at the expense of trees is not inevitable.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#conservation #housing #biodiversity #winwin
🌲 🏡 🏢 🌲
We need housing. We also needs trees. Our new study across western Washington finds gaining housing at the expense of trees is not inevitable.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#conservation #housing #biodiversity #winwin
June 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Housing or trees? Science says "why not both?"
🌲 🏡 🏢 🌲
We need housing. We also needs trees. Our new study across western Washington finds gaining housing at the expense of trees is not inevitable.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#conservation #housing #biodiversity #winwin
🌲 🏡 🏢 🌲
We need housing. We also needs trees. Our new study across western Washington finds gaining housing at the expense of trees is not inevitable.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#conservation #housing #biodiversity #winwin
💚🐢My research now touches everything from solar panels to salmon recovery, but one of my first and forever science loves are turtles. And today is a very happy World Turtle Day
This beauty is one of the many stunning western pond turtles I've had the privilege of working with
#WorldTurtleDay
This beauty is one of the many stunning western pond turtles I've had the privilege of working with
#WorldTurtleDay
May 24, 2025 at 3:11 AM
💚🐢My research now touches everything from solar panels to salmon recovery, but one of my first and forever science loves are turtles. And today is a very happy World Turtle Day
This beauty is one of the many stunning western pond turtles I've had the privilege of working with
#WorldTurtleDay
This beauty is one of the many stunning western pond turtles I've had the privilege of working with
#WorldTurtleDay
Climate change? Land use? Both? "Nature isn't really our friend, is it?"
Yesterday's Doonesbury captures a common sentiment and underscores how climate change is overemphasized when many natural challenges are due to land use decisions
#Beavers #Conservation #Biodiversity #ClimateChange
Yesterday's Doonesbury captures a common sentiment and underscores how climate change is overemphasized when many natural challenges are due to land use decisions
#Beavers #Conservation #Biodiversity #ClimateChange
May 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Climate change? Land use? Both? "Nature isn't really our friend, is it?"
Yesterday's Doonesbury captures a common sentiment and underscores how climate change is overemphasized when many natural challenges are due to land use decisions
#Beavers #Conservation #Biodiversity #ClimateChange
Yesterday's Doonesbury captures a common sentiment and underscores how climate change is overemphasized when many natural challenges are due to land use decisions
#Beavers #Conservation #Biodiversity #ClimateChange
🌲 🦌 🐻 🦅 🐦⬛ 🌲
Field Prep!
Deploying dozens of acoustic recorders for birds and cameras for mammals (and a dash of AI) to study what biodiversity looks like in Pacific Northwest forests that are in various stages of transition out of industrial timber harvest
#biodiversity #conservation
Field Prep!
Deploying dozens of acoustic recorders for birds and cameras for mammals (and a dash of AI) to study what biodiversity looks like in Pacific Northwest forests that are in various stages of transition out of industrial timber harvest
#biodiversity #conservation
April 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
🌲 🦌 🐻 🦅 🐦⬛ 🌲
Field Prep!
Deploying dozens of acoustic recorders for birds and cameras for mammals (and a dash of AI) to study what biodiversity looks like in Pacific Northwest forests that are in various stages of transition out of industrial timber harvest
#biodiversity #conservation
Field Prep!
Deploying dozens of acoustic recorders for birds and cameras for mammals (and a dash of AI) to study what biodiversity looks like in Pacific Northwest forests that are in various stages of transition out of industrial timber harvest
#biodiversity #conservation
The purest opinion content in the media these days. I might quibble gently over the choice of which salamander is the most adorable creature, but spotted salamanders are up there
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | This is the most adorable creature you might never see
The spotted salamander has been heralding the season’s arrival for millions of years.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 13, 2025 at 4:27 AM
The purest opinion content in the media these days. I might quibble gently over the choice of which salamander is the most adorable creature, but spotted salamanders are up there
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Always learning - I'm a slow reader with books because I tend to bounce around multiple at a time. I enjoy letting the ideas from different books have a conversation in my noggin, even if wasn't the authors' intention
These are the books I've been working through recently
These are the books I've been working through recently
March 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Always learning - I'm a slow reader with books because I tend to bounce around multiple at a time. I enjoy letting the ideas from different books have a conversation in my noggin, even if wasn't the authors' intention
These are the books I've been working through recently
These are the books I've been working through recently
It's World Wildlife Day and I remain ever grateful for the amazing species I get to coexist with and play a small part in protecting. And I'm so appreciative of the many friends and colleagues who dedicate their lives to making sure our existence is enriched by bountiful wildlife.
#WorldWildlifeDay
#WorldWildlifeDay
March 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM
It's World Wildlife Day and I remain ever grateful for the amazing species I get to coexist with and play a small part in protecting. And I'm so appreciative of the many friends and colleagues who dedicate their lives to making sure our existence is enriched by bountiful wildlife.
#WorldWildlifeDay
#WorldWildlifeDay
I know less about football than I do about raptors, so this superbOwl I'm all about those eagles
I cut my teeth in conservation by working with raptors! Lots of lovely science on birds of prey at Peregrine Fund and Cornell
peregrinefund.org/explore-rapt...
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/browse...
I cut my teeth in conservation by working with raptors! Lots of lovely science on birds of prey at Peregrine Fund and Cornell
peregrinefund.org/explore-rapt...
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/browse...
February 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I know less about football than I do about raptors, so this superbOwl I'm all about those eagles
I cut my teeth in conservation by working with raptors! Lots of lovely science on birds of prey at Peregrine Fund and Cornell
peregrinefund.org/explore-rapt...
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/browse...
I cut my teeth in conservation by working with raptors! Lots of lovely science on birds of prey at Peregrine Fund and Cornell
peregrinefund.org/explore-rapt...
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/browse...
Fires like those in Los Angeles are a result of our housing practices. They're absolutely caused by climate change, but also land use habits. Scientists for decades have been highlighting this growing problem
www.linkedin.com/posts/max-la...
www.linkedin.com/posts/max-la...
January 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Fires like those in Los Angeles are a result of our housing practices. They're absolutely caused by climate change, but also land use habits. Scientists for decades have been highlighting this growing problem
www.linkedin.com/posts/max-la...
www.linkedin.com/posts/max-la...
Love that Olympia's city staff drive vehicles decorated in winter garb and lights across the different neighborhoods each year. Amazing way to celebrate city employees and the holiday season ❄️☃️🧑🎄🎄🚒🚔🚚
December 20, 2024 at 5:31 AM
Love that Olympia's city staff drive vehicles decorated in winter garb and lights across the different neighborhoods each year. Amazing way to celebrate city employees and the holiday season ❄️☃️🧑🎄🎄🚒🚔🚚