Creekside Science

Lech Naumovich will be giving a free publicly accessible talk on Creekside Science’s project at East Bay Regional Park District’s Serpentine Prairie. 

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…

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…

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.

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…

Creekside Science was mentioned in a recent New York Times blog article on Edgewood Natural Preserve.  The entire article can be found here.  

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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