Max Lambert
@maxlambert.bsky.social
Conservation scientist working on wildlife, cities, farmland, wildlands, clean energy, equity, and justice
🇺🇲🔭 The federal science workforce - our patriot scientists - "𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘳, 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥." Proud to reflect on how special federal scientists are to America's soul. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Federal scientists, a great American invention: a letter to our federal colleagues
Click on the article title to read more.
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🏘️ In my spare time I work in support of this local organization to protect & build homes for low-to-moderate income people Proud to write this article in our regional news journal Housing lands trusts won't solve the housing crunch alone, but they help lots www.thejoltnews.com/stories/a-la...
🐸💚🐸 It's World Frog Day and that gives me a chance to remember the critters that defined much of my career. Frogs are amphibians, a word that means "two lives" - one life in water and one on land - which means frogs are doubly impacted by environmental change Also they're just neat
🌲+ 🪚 = ❄️ - 🔥 (Cutting trees = more snow?) The math checks out New science from the Washington Cascades show that the same forest treatments we use to reduce wildfire risk also hold more snow in our mountains Fantastic science by TNC and University of Washington colleagues @science.nature.org
Salmon still surprise us, despite being some of the best studied animals 🐟 💙 Salmon have complex juvenile migrations and use diverse habitats outside their natal watershed before entering the sea. What we conserve matters for recovery! @science.nature.org cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10....
Land is everything Watching these changes where I grew up motivated me to become a conservation scientist But I also see so many people struggling to afford housing and energy This is why I study how conservationists can help rapidly build things we need while also protecting and restoring nature
Mkay we are gonna need some scissors and a pedestrian overpass, ASAP
🏘&💡 abundance 🫶 🌲🐸🦬🦋 Check our preprint on building abundant housing and energy while protecting and restoring nature Tough conversations but I'm glad someone like @sophielgilbert.bsky.social is having it!
Sophie Gilbert@sophielgilbert.bsky.social · 6mo agoExcited to share our "conservation abundance" preprint, along with my co-author @maxlambert.bsky.social! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... We think that the abundance movement is a conservation issue, and that conservation scientists can help 🧪🐝🦇🏘️🔋. #EnergySky
Can supporting masculinity help solve climate change and heal society? Interesting lessons from this book & study. A new approach to masculinity and supporting boys/men may help heal society and the planet. Maybe a warmer version of masculinity can cool our planet and society #climate #masculinity
I'm proud to be a Board Member at Thurston Housing Land Trust! Housing is one of our most important issues. As a conservationist, I believe conserving nature and building much-needed housing can co-exist. I think we can be conservationists who build. And I'm grateful for the work ahead.
THREAD The first full year of tracking research on @bsky.app Hi, we are Altmetric, and we track how research is communicated across the web. We now have one full calendar year of Bluesky research data and thought we'd have a looksie.
2025 in #Science. Publications aren't the most important thing in science but they can be a fun record of a year's portfolio of research. The below figures showcase the diversity of my research that came out this past year. All of this science relied on collaborations with 𝓭𝓸𝔃𝓮𝓷𝓼 of diverse partners
What do houses, energy, and sixty-pound salmon have in common? All of them are currently scarce but could be plentiful with the right changes to policy and practice. 🧪🐟🏘️🔋 How do we get to this "conservation abundance" future for nature and people? I have thoughts! www.perc.org/2025/12/09/t...
The Case for Conservation Abundance | PERC
How fixing America’s affordability crisis points toward a conservation future defined by plenty rather than scarcity
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Agrivoltaics "could be one way to ease competition between the agriculture and solar energy sectors." Washington needs a lot of renewable energy and we are going to have to figure out how to build it quickly and responsibly Proud to publish this washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/11/25/f...
Farmers can advance Washington state’s energy needs • Washington State Standard
COMMENTARY | Rather than converting farmland to solar facilities, we could build solar arrays and continue growing crops and raising livestock beneath.
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Fun to see our local, undergraduate-led study on salmon eggs and fry being eaten by introduced African Clawed Frogs in Washington highlighted in AmphibiaWeb. @amphibiaweb.org holds a special place in my heart for its reach to global conservation circles. 🐸 💚 🐟 amphibiaweb.org
🦫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/...
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...
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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
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
Zack Colman@zcolman.bsky.social · 11mo agoTrump'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...
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/...
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...
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.
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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...
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-...
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.
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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
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...
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....
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⚠️📢 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/...
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
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
