UW News
January 13, 2014
DeLap studies urban birds, sketches for book ‘Subirdia’ due out in 2014
![Drawing of hand and bird](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/01/04190014/Banded_Spotted_Towhee-150x150.jpg)
Slideshow includes with images sketched by Jack DeLap, UW doctoral candidate in environmental and forestry sciences.
November 8, 2013
Forest fires and fireside chats: UW students learn about management challenges
![Students uses hand lens to examine moss on rock](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2013/11/04191200/2013-Ecosystem-management-field-trip-Moss-150x150.jpg)
An intensive two week field course helped 20 University of Washington students learn firsthand about the challenges of managing dry, fire-prone forests of the Pacific Northwest.
February 20, 2013
Searchable by cell phone or GPS unit, interactive map for arboretum being created
![Two children among cherry trees in the Washington Park Arboretum.](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2013/02/04201638/arboretum-tile-150x100.jpg)
UW Botanic Gardens is digitizing 55 years of handwritten plant records and creating an interactive GIS map for the Washington Park Arboretum.