Hey all!

I have been continuing my work looking at animal activity in the Panoche Hills but I am now expanding that work to look at the ability for shrubs to act as a restoration tool to help mitigate the effects of climate change on the endangered blunt nosed leopard lizard. I have set up motion activated cameras in paired shrub-open areas to record animal activity at both sites. Some shrubs will later be removed, and shrub mimics will be built in order to compare animal activity with and without shrubs. Mimics will help separate any potential biotic effects of shrubs on leopard lizard activity.

Most of the time the cameras catch vegetation, flags or clouds moving in the wind and you see something like this…

…or this

but then we get exciting animal pictures like this

and most exciting of all…the blunt nosed leopard lizard!