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Creekside Science completes 30 year review of San Bruno Mountain Habitat Conservation Plan
This fall, Creekside Science submitted their final draft of the 30-year review of the San Bruno Mountain Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP). This HCP, approved in 1982, was the first ever such agreement. Now, there are more than 500 HCPs nationwide. Although both the HCP planning and implementation process has changed dramatically in the past 30…
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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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Medusahead Treatments Showing Success
We are very excited to publicly report that our medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae (L.) Nevski) treatments at Edgewood Preserve have been an enormous success. Our treatments started in 2009 with medusahead infestations spanning some 5-6 acres of the preserve grasslands. As we completed our 2014 seasonal mow, staff botanists observed only a few individuals throughout the treatment area. Our…
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Conservation and management of three imperiled West Coast butterflies
Conservation and management of three imperiled West Coast butterflies: Bay, Quino, and Taylor’s checkerspots. Creekside Science teamed up with a host of fantastic sponsors including Xerces Society, Center for Natural Lands Management, and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife in order to bring together scientists and land managers working on 3 different listed checkerspot…
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Creekside Science and Partners Awarded
Creekside Science has been partnering with a number of land owners to ensure that the landscapes have been managed with an eye towards reducing invasives and encouraging high quality wildlife habitat. Creekside and partnering organizations were awarded two significant awards from the Wildlife Habitat Council this year: – The Silicon Valley Land Conservancy (stewarding PG&E…
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Barbed Goatgrass Control Research
Creekside staff has been working diligently to control Barbed Goatgrass (Aegilops triuncialis) in occupied Bay Checkerspot habitat on Coyote Ridge. This annual grass occupies areas where important forbs (like host and nectar plants) may grow. Notably, BGG seems to form denser stands thus deteriorating Checkerspot habitat. We present the following findings (see PDF below) on…
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Bay Checkerspot Larvae in action
Here’s a brief video from our Bay Checkerspot relocation efforts from 2013. Here’s your best chance to see these mini-cats dancing! Our translocation efforts to Edgewood Natural Preserve and Tulare Hill resulted in moving almost 5,000 larvae to each site.
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Hunting the Tiburon Paintbrush
Creekside staff has teamed up with researchers in order to help us learn more about the endangered Tiburon Paintbrush (Castilleja affinis ssp. neglecta). Laney Widener of the Northwestern University and the Chicago Botanic Garden has been traveling through California collecting samples and updating the distribution of this plant (and a number of Castilleja species).
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