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Dr. Weiss co-authors a paper on climate change impacts on Californian ecosystems
Stu Weiss recently co-authored Adapting California’s Ecosystems to a Changing Climate. The following is the paper’s abstract: “Significant efforts are underway to translate improved understanding of how climate change is altering ecosystems into practical actions for sustaining ecosystem functions and benefits. We explore this transition in California, where adaptation and mitigation are advancing relatively rapidly, through four…
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CitizenInvestor Funds Restoration of San Mateo Thornmint
After a successful fundraising campaign on CitizenInvestor in spring of 2013, and a one year wait for wetter (better) growing conditions for San Mateo Thornmint (Acanthomintha obovata ssp. duttonii), a partnership of groups including County of San Mateo Parks, Friends of Edgewood and Creekside Science carefully seeded around the existing thornmint population in order to…
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Rare Plant Service-based Learning Workshop: Serpentine Prairie, Oakland
Creekside staffer Lech Naumovich teamed with the East Bay Regional Park District and the California Native Plant Society of the East Bay in order to bring together a workshop on rare plant seed collection methods. Our project took place in Redwood Regional Park, on a restored serpentine area known as the Serpentine Prairie. This site…
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Creekside Climate Change Work Reported in the San Francisco Chronicle
Dr. Stuart Weiss, Chief Scientist at Creekside, has been working on analysis of the impacts of climate change on the Bay Area ecosystems and crops. His collaborative work has Creekside Science partnering with other Bay Area agencies and organizations like the Bay Area Open Space Council, the Pepperwood Preserve, United States Geological Service, and the…
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Goatgrass Management on Coyote Ridge
Creekside Science has been working with a host of partners to control and in some cases eradicate barbed goat grass from key habitat areas on Coyote Ridge. This grass has proven to effectively invade and dominate serpentine soils presenting a notable impact to Bay Checkerspot habitat. Here is our team at work near a main…
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Mission Blue: Underway
Creekside Science has been coordinating with the San Francisco Parks Department, Liam O’Brien, and US Fish and Wildlife Service on an important reintroduction project that moves Mission blue butterflies from San Bruno Mountain to Twin Peaks. The goal of this project is to bolster the existing population at Twin Peaks by adding adult females and…
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East Bay CNPS Talk on Presidio Clarkia by Creekside Biologist Lech Naumovich
Lech Naumovich will be giving a free publicly accessible talk on Creekside Science’s project at East Bay Regional Park District’s Serpentine Prairie.
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A Female Checkerspot found at Tulare Hill
Creekside biologists were enthused to find a female Bay Checkerspot adult on Tulare Hill today. The siting of this female brings hope that critical habitat for this rare butterfly still exists and that the population is still holding on, if not barely, at this location. Tulare Hill has undergone some significant habitat improvements through well…
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Tiburon Paintbrush Experiment
Tiburon paintbrush (Castilleja affinis ssp. neglecta) is a perennial forb that is limited to serpentine soils in only a few Bay Area locations. In its southern-most station, Paintbrush hill, located on Coyote Ridge, the population of this rare plant is slowly declining. We believe that certain grazers/browsers – namely rabbits – have been impacting the…
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Successful Translocation of Bay Checkerspot Larvae to Edgewood Natural Preserve
On Tuesday, Feb 21, 2012, Creekside staff transferred 2,762 larvae as part of an ongoing reintroduction of threatened checkerspot butterflies to Edgewood Natural Preserve, located in San Mateo County.
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