LAZY K MARSH: FOUR YEARS OF HABITAT ENHANCMENT FOR WETLAND-DEPENDENT WILDLIFE AT A CONSTRUCTED MARSH IN TETON VALLEY
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Abstract
Lazy K Marsh was constructed in 1999 to enhance habitat for wetland dependent wildlife in Teton Valley Idaho.The project received broad financial support because of the unique, sensitive and threatened wildlife resources being targeted.Teton Valley's 27,000 acres of wetlands are home to fall staging sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis), breeding long-billed curlew (Numenius americanus), wintering trumpeter swans (Cygnus buccinator), short-eared owls (Asio flammeus) and large concentrations of migrating waterfowl including pintails (Anas acuta).Our primary goal was to create waterfowl brood-rearing and shorebird habitat.Secondary goals included establishing dense nesting cover for resident waterfowl and food plots for spring migrating sandhill cranes.Revegetating the project area was daunting with nearly 30 ac. of constructed marsh.We developed cost-effective techniques for establishing emergent marsh, sub-merged aquatic and upland grass communities in areas historically used for livestock grazing.Alkali soils, aggressive introduced pasture grasses and noxious weeds compounded the problem.Initial revegetation efforts consisted of planting almost 10,000 native wetland plugs.We drill-seeded disturbed uplands (including the dike) with a mix of native grasses and forbs.Wildlife herbivory mostly by Canada geese was the major impediment to establishing vegetation.A constructed peninsula was particularly difficult to revegetate in this regard.Waterfowl concentrated on the peninsula and grazed vegetation to bare soil, increasing soil erosion and weed invasion by Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense).After many failed plantings we enclosed the peninsula with snow fencing in 2002 and replanted.Pre-vegetated coconut matting was used to stabilize soils on the windward side and proved extremely effective.Plant species selection, planting techniques, weed control and herbivory control were critical for vegetation establishment.Lazy K Marsh has become an important habitat in Teton Basin.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".