With Easter around the corner, Southern California biologists are playing bunny and hiding some 300 eggs in the wild. But these are tiny, gelatinous eggs that belong to Rana muscosa — the mountain yellow-legged frog (also know as the Sierra Madre yellow-legged frog). And the eggs went into a chilly stream in the James San […]
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Sedgwick Reserve HQ as Green as Buildings Get
by UC Santa Barbara Public Affairs The Tipton Meeting House at the University of California Sedgwick Natural Reserve has been designated one of the “greenest” buildings in the nation, earning LEED Platinum certification –– the highest sustainability rating possible –– from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The newly constructed, privately funded visitor and education […]
Art Fellowship at Yosemite Field Station
Calling all artists! A three- to four-month summer art residency is being offered at the Yosemite Field Station inside Yosemite National Park. The Scientific Visualization Fellowship (SciViz) is being offered by the University of California Merced, Sierra Nevada Research Institute. SNRI SciViz Fellowships are competitive awards intended to support work that is inspired by nature […]
Aldo Leopold Documentary Premieres at Berkeley
by UC Berkeley Public Affairs BERKELEY—The life and contributions of wildlife ecology pioneer Aldo Leopold are showcased in a new documentary, Green Fire, which gets its West Coast premiere Monday, Feb. 28, at Berkeley’s Pacific Film Archive theater. The film’s title draws on the epochal moment in Leopold’s life, when the young ranger witnessed the […]
A Sagehen Den for Orphaned Bears
For black bears 8495 and 8496, independence day will always be January 26, 2011. That’s when these two orphaned cubs were released back to the wild at Sagehen Creek Field Station by the California Department of Fish and Game. The site’s protected boundaries gives the cubs a safe place where they can learn to live […]
A Flora for the NRS
It’s a dilemma faced by field researchers everywhere: the need to study a particular species, combined with uncertainty over where it occurs. Anything smaller than a oak tree and less common than a robin can be fiendishly difficult to find. Now those seeking to locate particular plants in the NRS can rejoice. The name of […]
Beetles with NRS Links
Two recently described California beetles have unusually strong ties to NRS reserves. One, was named for Don Canestro, director of the Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve. Entomologists Katie Hopp and Michael Caterino of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History write in the journal ZooKeys that they named the beetle Cephennium canestroi “in appreciation […]