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San Mateo thornmint now present at Ring Mountain!
Creekside Science has been partnering with Marin County Parks, CDFW, and USFWS on recovery of this endangered annual mint. Stakeholders agreed that due to development within its small historic range in San Mateo County, the thornmint was unlikely to reach recovery goals without venturing outside its historic habitat. Creekside Science was awarded a USFWS Challenge…
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Creekside Science Assists in Bringing Silvery Blue Butterflies to SF Presidio as an Ecological Replacement for the Extinct Xerces Blue
Read more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/07/15/butterfly-xerces-extinction-replacement-san-francisco/
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Stu Weiss Awarded Local Hero Award By Bay Nature Magazine
Read Article Here: https://baynature.org/article/local-heroes-2023-stu-weiss-conservation-action-award/
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Monarch Head Start: Rescuing the Western Monarch Migration
California’s Western Monarch Migration utterly collapsed in 2021 and is facing imminent elimination. Here is an article regarding Stu and Dan Gluesenkamp’s effort to coordinate a desperate rescue operation that may help Western monarchs recover to some extent from the 99+% decline that they’ve suffered since the 1980s. Time is of the essence because, as…
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Bringing the Bay Checkerspot Back to San Bruno Mountain
. Bay checkerspot butterflies were once much more widespread throughout the SF Bay Area. Many factors, including loss of habitat and host plants (Plantago erecta), have contributed to the local extirpation of the species in many sites. Coyote Ridge is the exception, where a large, healthy population can still be found. This spring, Creekside Science…
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San Francisco Presidio Restoration Monitoring
Like many military bases, the Presidio of San Francisco had a truly mixed bag of environmental effects on its land when it was an active military base. Military bases often preserve land from development, which is great, but also tend to contaminate soils, and bring in invasive plants both actively and passively. Since the decommissioning…
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Creekside Science Tackles Monarch Butterfly Overwintering Habitat Across California
The Western monarch butterfly population that overwinters in California is in a state of collapse from a panoply of causes, including pesticide use, climate change, land use-change, and deterioration of the overwintering sites along the coast. Stu has been working with overwintering monarchs since 1990, using hemispherical (fisheye) photography to quantify canopy structure and map…
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A Butterfly’s World: A Video by Kirra Swenerton of Root Wisdom
Kirra Swenerton highlighted the Bay checkerspot butterfly’s return to San Bruno Mountain in a video featuring a number of the butterfly’s life stages. Creekside Science is proud of the success of this project so far, and is looking forward to continued collaboration with Kirra and all other invested partners.
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San Bruno Mountain Lupine Seeding Year 2
In 2018 Creekside Science was awarded a Disney Butterfly Conservation Initiative grant for work with the federally endangered Mission blue butterfly (MBB). This grant covers work with MBB habitat, with a focus on restoration of the butterfly’s host lupine species. In December 2019 Creekside Science staff and Kirra Swenerton (of Root Wisdom) installed 10 blocks…
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Think Big, Connect More
In November 2019, more than 125 members of the conservation community gathered at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for the official launch of the Bay Area Conservation Lands Network 2.0 Science Expansion. CLN 2.0 inventories, synthesizes, and projects forward the impressive collective efforts that have made the Bay Area a world leader in conservation,…
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