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Creekside Restoration, literally, San Mateo County
Creekside has been working on rehabilitating a drainage in San Mateo county. Our project goals are to stabilize the slope the with a mix of woody perennials and mat-forming grasses. Here you can see our willows established and flourishing on site once we constructed some light duty cages to deter summer browsing. This was 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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Recap of our news from first half of 2011
May, 2011 Creekside Center for Earth Observation continues to work with the County of San Mateo, the University of California Berkeley Botanic Garden, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and Friends of Edgewood Preserve on improving habitat in and around the one remaining wild population of San Mateo Thronmint (Acanthomintha obovata ssp. duttonii, formerly Acanthomintha…
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Creekside Efforts Lauded in New York Times
Creekside Science was mentioned in a recent New York Times blog article on Edgewood Natural Preserve. The entire article can be found here.
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Creekside Critter Housing Project at The Horse Park at Woodside is Featured in InMenlo
In the summer of 2011, Creekside proposed a critter housing project at The Horse Park at Woodside. Horse Park volunteer coordinator Nancy Benson raised funds through member contributions to make the project a reality. 14 Bluebird houses, 9 barn owl boxes, 4 bat houses and 7 raptor perches were installed by Creekside and Horse Park…
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