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Vol. 28, No.1 (Summer 2010)
Vol. 28, No.1

(Summer 2010)

  • Feature: Yosemite hosts new NRS field station guided by a far-sighted vision
  • Tenth campus UC Merced stewards its first NRS site
  • California tiger salamanders: the secret life story of a threatened species revealed by NRS researchers
  • Documenting a fossorial lifestyle
  • Endangered frog released in native habitat at NRS site
  • New leadership called to serve at NRS systemwide

Vol. 27, No.2 (Autumn/Winter 2009)
Vol. 27, No.2

(Autumn/Winter 2009)

  • Feature: Envisaging the future of California’s landscapes in a time of rapid climate change
  • Towers of power — UC professor transforms southern California into a laboratory to study ongoing climate change
  • In memoriam: Ottie Ashley Motte and Carol Lapham Valentine

Vol. 27, No.1 (Spring/Summer 2009)
Vol. 27, No.1

(Spring/Summer 2009)

  • Feature: Sensor networks at NRS reserves pioneer new ways to observe Earth
  • Students learn how to see at reserve-based art course
  • Parasitologist’s long-term study of small subject brings big rewards

Vol. 26, No.2 (Autumn/Winter 2008) 
Vol. 26, No.2

(Autumn/Winter 2008)

  • Feature: We can predict how our weather will behave, but can we ever learn to forecast our water? Keck HydroWatch says, why not?
  • Why nature at UC?

Vol. 26, No.1 ( Spring/Summer 2008 )  
Vol. 26, No.1

( Spring/Summer 2008 )

  • Feature: How a “gateway reserve” serves as a research hub and expands scientific horizons beyond NRS boundaries
  • McLaughlin’s serpentine enables specialization
  • Quail Ridge wireless network expands research
  • New NRS reserve: Blue Oak Ranch Reserve
  • Kids In Nature wins CA environmental award
  • New campus administrative director at UCSC, new resident manager at Big Creek

Vol. 25, No.2 ( Autumn/Winter 2007 ) 
Vol. 25, No.2

( Autumn/Winter 2007 )

  • Feature: Mysteries of the grasslands
  • Students of geology “rock out” at Sagehen reserve
  • Successful teen program expands to second NRS site
  • Urban middle schoolers explore the state’s biodiversity
  • Campus NRS director at UC Santa Cruz retires to international exploits

Vol. 25, No.1 ( Spring/Summer 2007 ) 
Vol. 25, No.1

( Spring/Summer 2007 )

  • Feature: A parasite’s world — looking into the planet’s most popular lifestyle
  • Beleaguered marsh on life support still persists as a highly productive natural resource
  • The ten commandments of salvage for ecological restoration
  • Pursuing the mystery of the monogamous mice

Vol. 24, No.2 (Spring 2006)
Vol. 24, No.2

(Spring 2006)

  • Feature: Improved strategies and technology for designing natural reserves promise greater system biodiversity
    Sidebar: PISCO and the MLPA
    Sidebar: The NRS role in California’s protected environments
  • Dedication ceremony for Sagehen experimental forest links UC Reserve System with nationwide network
  • Wide range of UC classes take to the wild with meaningful results
  • New director at Sedgwick Reserve bears watching
  • NRS announces 2006-07 grad student grant winners

Vol. 24, No.1 (Spring 2006) 
Vol. 24, No.1

(Spring 2006)

  • Feature: Helping endangered species keep their footing on the slippery slope of the genetic bottleneck
  • New study suggests one way to control invasive ants
  • California beetles go online
  • Chumash summer camp at Sedgwick Reserve realizing long-held dream of cultural revival
  • NRS wraps another successful Mathias Symposium at Bodega Marine Reserve
  • Gold company’s million-dollar endowment improves daily life at McLaughlin Reserve
  • UC researcher perishes in an attempt to rescue two colleagues
  • Sagehen Creek Field Station oral histories available online

Vol. 23, No.2 (Autumn 2005) 
Vol. 23, No.2

(Autumn 2005)

  • Feature: New laser-mapping technology enables aerial ground truthing
  • Marine biologist Dan Costa at the TOPP of his game
  • Teens learn leadership and literacy in the Sierras at Sagehen Creek Field Station
  • Kids star in bug video produced at Valentine Reserve
  • Sedgwick Reserve celebrates new all-green science center

Vol. 23, No.1 (Spring 2005) 
Vol. 23, No.1

(Spring 2005)

  • Feature: Of mice and (wo)men — Retirement just means more time for research
  • Ultrasonic mouse talk discovered at Hastings
  • Young readers in L.A. learn science through art
  • Bodega algae become art
  • Director of Motte, Emerson, and Box Spring retires
  • 2004-05 Mathias winners

Vol. 22, No.2 (Summer 2004)
Vol. 22, No.2

(Summer 2004)

  • Feature: Sagehen Creek Field Station becomes the 35th NRS reserve!
  • Sagehen brings a half century of history and scientific data to the UC reserve system
  • The Leopold years (1965-1978) and beyond — Sagehen hits its stride after Starker takes charge
  • Sagehen hosts two generations of “Bug Boot Camp”
  • The fall—how Sagehen very nearly didn’t survive the 1990s
  • Recovery and renaissance—how Sagehen lived to join the reserve system
  • “Portfolio of reserves” available to Sagehen-based scientists

Vol. 22, No.1 (Spring 2004)
Vol. 22, No.1

(Spring 2004)

  • Feature: Field notes from underground reveal the true nature and extent of flora-fungi relations.
  • The upper crust surviving nicely at NRS desert site
  • A search for Hans Jenny awakens new appreciation for the legacy of this world-class soil scientist
  • Old-growth reserve plans new-growth future
  • The bad news and good news about Elliott Reserve
  • Remote reserve set to welcome new on-site manager
  • NRS desert reserve celebrates its first quarter of a century and an NRS elder
  • Frank Pitelka, distinguished ecologist and longtime NRS scientist, academic, and administrator, dies at 87
  • Clark Kerr, legendary UC president and NRS visionary, dies at 92
  • UC Reserve System premieres on UCTV channel

Vol. 21, No.2 (Fall 2003)
Vol. 21, No.2

(Fall 2003)

  • Feature: Man meets mollusk and learns size does matter, even in the intertidal zone
  • Scientists at NRS coastal sites (tide)pool their knowledge
  • Well-mentored, hands-on training at Bodega Marine Reserve gets careers started
  • NRS reserve manager give his expertise to naming state’s marine managed areas
  • National Areas Association honors NRS managers with both its 2003 annual awards

Vol. 21, No.1 (Spring 2003)
Vol. 21, No.1

(Spring 2003)

Vol. 20, No.3 (Winter 2002)
Vol. 20, No.3

(Winter 2002)

  • Feature: Microbial observatories reveal lively little-known worlds beneath the surfaces of land and lake
  • Innovative nesting program at Coal Oil Point Reserve proves great success
  • Stunt Ranch Reserve looks forward to new facilities
  • Field course students from Minnesota discover California ecology at NRS reserves

Vol. 20, No.2 (Summer 2002)
Vol. 20, No.2

(Summer 2002)

  • Feature: NRS research that revealed collapse of island fox population now focuses on halting species extinction
  • First Mathias Symposium highlights 2000-01 winners
  • CA Coastal Conservancy support initiates Phase II of San Joaquin Marsh Reserve restoration
  • Legacy of 20th-century explorer Al A. Allanson enriches desert research

Vol. 20, No.1 (Spring 2002)
Vol. 20, No.1

(Spring 2002)

  • Feature: James Reserve places nature virtually at our fingertips
  • Mother lode of DNA data mined at McLaughlin
  • Ever-more-sophisticated technology reveals the secret lives of Año Nuevo elephant seals and sharks
  • Super “ear” installed at Boyd Deep Canyon

Vol. 19, No.2 (Winter 2001) 
Vol. 19, No.2

(Winter 2001)

  • Feature: Bioregional planning blooms in California’s Coachella Valley
  • A Community unites in stewardship of the Carpinteria Salt Marsh
  • Longtime reserve director Wayne Ferren charts a new course
  • Multiple NRS reserves play important role in the identity of the Putah-Cache bioregion

Vol. 19, No.1 (Spring 2001)
Vol. 19, No.1

(Spring 2001)

  • Feature: Wartime challenges prepared one NRS founder for future environmental battles
  • New NRS reserve: Field scientists can order “surf and turf” at the Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve—our 34th site
  • Oak researchers at NRS sites plan how to protect an imperiled native habitat
  • CA Coastal Conservancy helps two NRS reserves

Vol. 18, No.2 (Winter 2000) 
Vol. 18, No.2

(Winter 2000)

  • Feature: A bird in the hand is worth … banding!
  • Forest canopy access system being developed at Angelo
  • Science teacher training program off to a good start
  • Reserve-based research in atmospheric chemistry provides global insights
  • Center for science education opens at Valentine Camp

Vol. 18, No.1 (Summer 2000)
Vol. 18, No.1

(Summer 2000)

  • Feature: The past is nonrenewable — natural reserves protect rich cultural resources
  • Firsthand impressions of a Santa Cruz Island dig
  • Archaeology sheds light on Big Creek mussel mystery
  • Of mammoths and men picturing the past in the east Mojave Desert
  • And a useful glossary of anthropology terms, too!

Vol. 17, No.2 (Autumn/Winter 1999) 
Vol. 17, No.2

(Autumn/Winter 1999)

  • Feature: From drudgery to discovery — the real life of field researchers
  • CA lichens receive some long-overdue attention
  • Bee behavior reveals the drawbacks of cooking up habitat from scratch
  • Fish stocking becomes frog stalking in the high Sierra
  • Millennium falcons get a lift from NRS reserves

Vol. 17, No.1 (Spring/Summer 1999)
Vol. 17, No.1

(Spring/Summer 1999)

  • Feature: NRS founding father took reserve system to the millennium
  • NRS founder Ken Norris fondly remembered
  • UC reserve system plays national stage at AAAS
  • 1998-99 Mathias Student Research Grant awardees
  • Angelo Reserve receives funding for new environmental sciences center

Vol. 16, No.2 (Autumn / Winter 1998) 
Vol. 16, No.2

(Autumn / Winter 1998)

  • Feature: Scientists at Sedgwick Reserve master the mysteries of mud
  • Mud and its ways studied at Sedgwick
  • Año Nuevo elephant seal pups struggle for survival
  • Reserve staff across the system observe El Niño’s aftermaths

Vol. 16, No.1 (Spring/Summer 1998)
Vol. 16, No.1

(Spring/Summer 1998)

  • Feature: Science, art, and community service converge when kids meet in the Carpinteria Marsh “classroom”
  • Carpinteria Marsh kids
  • Multilevel outreach at SNARL/Valentine Camp
  • Jepson Prairie docents
  • Wilderness medicine at James San Jacinto Mountains
  • Many, many thanks to the Packard Foundation!

Vol. 15, No. 2 (Fall 1997)
Vol. 15, No. 2

(Fall 1997)

  • Feature: NRS welcomes new director
  • Hastings scientists help make way for newts
  • Santa Cruz Island home to nine newly listed plants
  • Research takes root at Sedgwick Reserve

Vol. 15, No.1 (Spring 1997)
Vol. 15, No.1

(Spring 1997)

  • Feature: Cougars thrive as top predators
  • “Research in art” focuses on Big Creek
  • Fort Ord becomes newest NRS reserve
  • North Fork lands available for study
  • Rock art researchers celebrate Mojave

Vol. 14, No. 2 (Fall 1996)
Vol. 14, No. 2

(Fall 1996)

  • Feature: Long-term research, monitoring call for long-range planning
  • Marsh ecosystem monitoring
  • Fire research and management
  • Sustainable fishery
  • Grassland restoration
  • Island archaeology

Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 1996)
Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 1996)
  •  Feature: Stunt Ranch Reserve joins NRS as post-fire recovery continues

Vol. 13, No. 2 (Winter 1995)
Vol. 13, No. 2

(Winter 1995)

  • Feature: Mono Lake and other eco-studies find home sweet lab at SNARL
  • Ancestral wetlands restored
  • Hastings GIS progresses
  • “Most productive habitat” discovered
  • Marine mammals monitored

Vol. 13, No.1 (Summer 1995)
Vol. 13, No.1

(Summer 1995)

  • Feature: Fire ecology and management make good news at Big Creek
  • NRS and the new national preserve
  • Bullfrog invaders in Eel River
  • Farewell to founder Mildred Mathias
  • NRS now on World Wide Web

Vol. 12, No. 1 (Fall 1994)
Vol. 12, No. 1

(Fall 1994)

  • Feature: Our world according to GIS
  • Reserve GIS projects aid research, teaching, management
  • Green crabs invade Bodega
  • NRS managers save a species
  • Old growth gets new name

Vol. 11, No. 2 (Fall 1993)
Vol. 11, No. 2

(Fall 1993)

  • Feature: Motte Reserve receives resources to save species
  • Grassland recovery at Hastings
  • Secondary education at Bodega
  • A year in the life of Deep Canyon

Vol. 11, No. 1 (Spring 1993)
Vol. 11, No. 1

(Spring 1993)

  • Feature: Innovative, self-sufficient research facilities completed at the Granite Mountains Reserve
  • Mojave Desert Symposium
  • A year in the life of SNARL
  • NRS student grant programs

Vol. 10, No. 2 (Fall 1992)
Vol. 10, No. 2

(Fall 1992)

  • Feature: Newest serpentine reserve is real gold mine
  • Focus on urban reserves
  • New stream system at SNARL
  • Student grant winners
  • NRS Geographic Information System
  • Funding opportunities

Vol. 10, No. 1 (Spring 1992)
Vol. 10, No. 1

(Spring 1992)

  • Feature: UC Davis celebrates newest NRS Reserve
  • Santa Cruz Island research update
  • Focus on urban reserves
  • New snow lab at SNARL
  • Upcoming conferences
  • New state council on biodiversity

Vol. 9, No. 2 (Winter 1991)
Vol. 9, No. 2

(Winter 1991)

  • Feature: Outstanding Davis professor is appointed interim director of the reserve system
  • New NRS reserve
  • NSF facilities grants
  • Public health course on NRS Sites
  • Hastings research update
  • Switzer Foundation fellowships

Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring 1991)
Vol. 9, No. 1

(Spring 1991)

  • Feature: Geologist finds fault at Big Creek
  • Grassland restoration
  • Aquatic ecology at NCCRP
  • Ken Norris
  • Student grant winners
  • New publications

Vol. 8, No. 2 (Spring 1990)
Vol. 8, No. 2

(Spring 1990)

  • Feature: Santa Monica Mountains Reserve Joins NRS
  • Student research grants
  • Mildred Mathias
  • James Reserve GIS
  • Natural Areas Conference
  • Reserve work weekends

Vol. 8, No. 1 (Winter 1990)
Vol. 8, No. 1

(Winter 1990)

  • Feature: Reserves receive $500,000 in NSF grants and NRS matching funds for facilities development
  • Funding opportunities
  • Environmental education
  • San Joaquin Marsh plan
  • Reserve people
  • Research at NCCRP

Vol. 7, No. 2 (Spring 1989)
Vol. 7, No. 2

(Spring 1989)

  • Feature: NCCRP brings old growth and Eel River to the UC Reserve System
  • Experimental introductions
  • Student research grants
  • NRS budget increase
  • New facilities
  • Santa Cruz Island archaeology
  • Reserve user data

Vol. 7, No. 1 (Fall 1988)
Vol. 7, No. 1

(Fall 1988)

  • Feature: Bodega Laboratory/Reserve plans major expansion
  • Beach overlook built at Younger Lagoon
  • Fire strikes Stebbins Reserve
  • NRS welcomes new personnel
  • South Pacific field facilities available

Vol. 6, No. 2 (Spring 1988)
Vol. 6, No. 2

(Spring 1988)

  • Feature: Samuelsen reflects on NRS directorship
  • Funding opportunities
  • New personnel
  • Bighorn sheep study
  • Elephant seal study

Vol. 6, No. 1 (Fall 1987)
Vol. 6, No. 1

(Fall 1987)

  • Feature: Spotted owl chick saved at James Reserve
  • NSF director visits reserves
  • NSF facilities grants
  • Collaborative programs
  • New publications

Vol. 5, No. 2 (Spring 1987)
Vol. 5, No. 2

(Spring 1987)

  • Feature: Interactive video now simulates James Reserve
  • New reserve: Younger Lagoon Reserve
  • Opportunities
  • Oil spill follow-up
  • Granite Mountains profile
  • Berkeley citation

Vol. 5, No. 1 (Fall 1986)
Vol. 5, No. 1

(Fall 1986)

  • Feature: NRS presents itself to Regents
  • New reserve managers
  • TBT workshop
  • New ANR vice president
  • Opportunities

Vol. 4, No. 2 (Spring 1986)
Vol. 4, No. 2

(Spring 1986)

  • Feature: The NRS at 20
  • Research and job opportunities
  • Coal Oil Point gets vernal pools
  • New facilities
  • New publications

Vol. 4, No. 1 (Fall 1985)
Vol. 4, No. 1

(Fall 1985)

  • Feature: Big Creek burns!
  • Research and job opportunities
  • Celebrate nature with the NRS
  • Bodega expands MOMS
  • NSF special competition
  • New NRS publication

Vol. 3, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 1985)
Vol. 3, No. 2

(Spring/Summer 1985)

  •  Feature: Carroll to be NRS Associate Director

Vol. 3, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 1984)
Vol. 3, No. 1

(Fall/Winter 1984)

  • Feature: Oil spill hits Bodega Marine Reserve
  • SNARL and Año Nuevo Island Receive NSF facilities grants
  • Mosquito research at San Joaquin Freshwater Marsh

Vol. 2, No. 2 (Spring 1984)
Vol. 2, No. 2

(Spring 1984)

  • Feature: Researchers study acid precipitation at SNARL
  • Housing addition planned for Bodega
  • Archaeological survey at Big Creek

Vol. 2, No. 1 (Fall 1983)
Vol. 2, No. 1

(Fall 1983)

  • Feature: $900,000 desert study at Deep Canyon
  • Protected areas and development
  • New program inventories sensitive species and communities

Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 1982)
Vol. 1, No. 1

(Spring 1982)

  • Feature: Acorn woodpeckers — fast food junkies of the animal kingdom