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  • A toolkit to assess ecosystem resilience to wildfire
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  • Heather Constable named director at Sedgwick Reserve
  • Natural instincts
  • Kendall-Frost Marsh hosts Love Your Wetlands Day 2023
  • Learning to burn: using prescribed fire to keep California’s foothills safe from wildfire
  • 2022–23 Mathias Grants awarded
  • Fog binds California and Chile together
  • A legacy of research: Sedgwick turns 25
  • Study of sundowner winds offers wildfire forecasting insights
  • Student research gear closet lowers barriers to field experiences
  • Unseen California arts initiative uses NRS reserves as canvas
  • Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve expands
  • Cricket crew flocks to Sedgwick
  • First Swarth Fogel Undergraduate Research Scholar studies vernal pool grazing
  • The organizing principles behind stream communities
  • Elephant seals measure “the Blob”
  • Researchers track juvenile elephant seals for insights into mortality rates
  • The FAIR Island Project links data with place of origin
  • Inoculating frogs against an amphibian pandemic
  • Students dip their toes into coastal science at Younger Lagoon
  • Soil warming experiment to measure future carbon emissions
  • Remembering “isotope queen” Marilyn Fogel, pioneering scientist, beloved mentor 
  • Art Riggs, diabetes researcher and Granite Mountains supporter, remembered
  • SHIFT campaign links plant biodiversity and health with NASA’s remote sensing technology
  • NRS establishes research compact with Chilean university reserves
  • Beach hoppers feed island foxes
  • 2022 Field Science Fellows
  • Retired Riverside faculty fund Advancing Inclusivity Internship
  • Following rain, desert microbes exhale potent greenhouse gas
  • A tale of two fishes
  • Hands on the Land to renew the landscape at McLaughlin
  • Anza-Borrego reserve receives major endowment gift
  • Wildfire runoff may impede steelhead sense of smell
  • Desert bighorn sheep in the White Mountains
  • 2021-22 Mathias Grants awarded
  • Sister reserve summit in Loreto, Mexico
  • Steve Monfort is the new executive director of the UC Natural Reserve System
  • Snake training at Deep Canyon
  • Experienced mothers prime pups for success
  • Longtime NRS Executive Director Peggy Fiedler retires
  • Biologist wins Packard Fellowship for Año Nuevo research
  • Delivering environmental data from the NRS
  • 20 years of snowy plovers
  • NRS publishes Capital Campaign Report
  • New Swarth Fogel NRS Undergraduate Research Scholarship
  • Fundraising campaign gives Kendall-Frost Marsh a fresh start
  • Survival lessons from a California frog
  • NRS instrumental in biologist’s ascent to grad school
  • Younger Lagoon to roll out wetland welcome mat for frogs
  • Fire and the foothills: reducing wildfire threats while boosting biodiversity
  • Reconnecting the people, plants and animals of Kendall-Frost Marsh
  • Not your average school day in Mammoth Lakes
  • Stream insects show it’s possible to clean up mining pollution in rivers
  • Bacteria can double protein released from pollen
  • Remembering Alexander Glazer, former director of the UC Natural Reserve System
  • New manager for Sagehen Creek Field Station
  • Listening in on the world of elephant seals
  • Deep Canyon expands to accommodate meetings, groups
  • Missing the middle: the importance of regional-scale field research
  • Striking kite calls San Joaquin Marsh home
  • David Wake, who warned of amphibian declines, is dead at 84
  • UC Irvine Natural Reserves: Using science to serve nature
  • Wildfires and flooding trigger black abalone rescue effort
  • State funds secure buildings and water for the Granites
  • Influential evolutionary biologist Barry Sinervo dies at age 60
  • Fear shapes feeding and resting strategies for migrating elephant seals
  • 2021 Field Science Fellows
  • Massive debris flow swamps Big Creek Reserve as heavy rains follow summer wildfire
  • Consequences of fire on California ecosystems
  • Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve partially reopens
  • Shell currency was part of an ancient economy in the Channel Islands
  • Winter rains take toll on wildfire-burned Big Creek
  • UC Santa Cruz offers virtual tour of Younger Lagoon Natural Reserve
  • In memoriam: Antony Orme, 83, geographer, professor, and former White Mountain Research Center director
  • Timeworn cattle ranch remade into NRS reserve
  • Keeping Carpinteria Salt Marsh connected to the tides
  • 2020-21 Mathias Grant recipients
  • Wildfire expands Blue Oak Ranch hydrology study
  • Wildfires spark burn recovery study at 9 UC Natural Reserves
  • Teaching a field program amid a pandemic
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  • Land donation expands Burns Piñon Ridge Reserve
  • Historic Hastings buildings renewed
  • Thinning Valentine Camp’s forest to save it
  • Assembling Quail Ridge Reserve
  • FUERTE connects Latinx students with environmental sciences
  • 2020 wildfires burn six UC Natural Reserves; seventh threatened
  • Bond funds renew stream research, build a lecture hall at SNARL
  • New cabins foster community at James Reserve
  • Careful planning yields a better Big Creek reserve
  • A phoenix from the ashes: Stunt Ranch field station
  • Mine facilities metamorphose into McLaughlin Natural Reserve field station
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  • Buildout reshapes social club into premier desert science center
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