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 […]
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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 […]
Sedgwick Gets a Green HQ
With a thumbs up from the building inspector, Sedgwick Reserve has gotten the ok to occupy a brand new headquarters building. The 3,600-square-foot Tipton Meeting House will be multifunctional. In addition to acting as headquarters for the UC Santa Barbara-administered reserve, it will house an education center, seed bank and native plant herbarium, and a […]
2010 Mildred E. Mathias Grant Winners
Fifteen graduate students from eight different University of California campuses have been awarded Mildred E. Mathias Graduate Student Research Grants. Each will receive up to $3,000 to support their field studies. The research projects will be conducted at a dozen different NRS reserves across the state. Mathias grants are awarded to UC graduate students based […]
Tadpole Release to Bolster Endangered Population
Endangered tadpoles were released into a stream near Idyllwild, Calif., today with hopes that the Southern California population of the mountain yellow-legged frog Rana muscosa will thrive again. This is the second release of tadpoles into the same stream at the University of California James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve in Riverside County, which is part […]
Snow Patrol
Two determined Southern California biologists are on a mission to save one of our cutest, and most besieged, birds. Joggers, surfers, and dogs had better watch out. by David Seideman, Audubon Magazine It seems remarkable that Cristina Sandoval and Stacey Vigallon had never met, never even talked on the phone, till the day I bring […]
Observing Starshine over Sedgwick Reserve
A brand-new telescope at the NRS’s Sedgwick Reserve is giving astronomers front row seats to some of the most spectacular events in the night sky. Learn more about it courtesy of the cover story in UC Santa Barbara Today. Looking Up: First Observatory at a UC Natural Reserve The sign on the door of the […]
NRS Makes the Countdown
The conservation work of the NRS has gained international recognition. Endangered species reintroduction at the James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve is one of the 20 biodiversity success stories featured in Made in Countdown 2010, a publication of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Countdown 2010 initiative. The publication describes efforts to protect biodiversity […]