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The world of fungi on a redwood
The world's tallest trees contain distinct communities of fungi within their vast canopies. This impressively diverse fungal microbiome, revealed through DNA sequencing, lives on and inside redwood leaves. The study sampled trees across the entire range of Sequoia sempervirens, including a 200-plus footer at the NRS's Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve. Read more >>
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Conservation heroes at Coal Oil Point
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has recognized the NRS's Coal Oil Point Reserve for decades of work to recover the federally threatened western snowy plover. Reserve director Cris Sandoval and her staff restored vegetation on the dunes, giving plovers the nesting habitat they required. They also launched a docent program that keeps beach visitors from trampling young and disturbing breeding birds. Thanks to their efforts, the reserve has become a key wintering and nesting location for the plovers. Read more >>
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What lurks beneath
An arresting video clip from UC San Diego records the emergence of a sea monster at the NRS's Scripps Coastal Reserve. In a scene straight out of a horror movie, a sucker-lined arm curls about the bluffs above the reserve's beach while an oblivious jogger runs straight to the giant appendage. Reserve waters do protect all manner of astonishing marine life, including seals, sharks, and (typically smaller) octopi. As for the creature in the video? That cgi cephalopod would be a real record-breaker.
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