Your email: This week’s blog entry is presented by guest-blogger Edwin Bobrycki, the boyfriend of CSERC biologist Lindsey Myers. It conveys the (quite entertaining) up close and personal encounter with nature they experienced this past week as they returned to their home late one evening. Enjoy! Share this Blog!SubscribeDiggdel.icio.usFacebookStumbleUpon
Here in the central Sierra Nevada, we get most of our annual precipitation in the late fall through the early spring. With cool but seldom freezing temperatures in the foothills, this time of year the weather is right for mushrooms to grow. There is a diversity to be found, and the unique shapes [...]
You know you love ‘em. How could you not? Whatever the inconveniences they may cause you (or the longings they bring out in you for a warm sunny beach in Fiji), when examined up close the snowflake evokes in all of us a sense of awe and wonder of the intricacies of nature’s design. Share [...]
As the length of daylight rapidly shrinks and we once again grow accustomed to the onslaught of cold and wet winter storms (and the power outages that go with it), it is easy to pat ourselves on the back for our rugged lifestyle in the mountains. But really, when the weather gets rough, we go [...]
Its happening again. As soon as the cool weather kicks in, that instinctive hibernation overcomes us and we no longer have the same urge to get out enjoy nature like we were in the summer. Understandable, but at the same time, there is much we can do to get out and enjoy nature this time [...]
CSERC has been involved in helping to protect at-risk meadows throughout the years. This includes the recent volunteer project at Sapps Meadow where CSERC led the effort to build a fence around a special fen within the meadow (Read more about this project here). Throughout the course of this last [...]
It is hard to imagine, but there has not been a confirmed presence of the Sierra Nevada red fox (Vulpes vulpes necator) south of Lassen Volcanic National Park in over 15 years, with none being seen in the central Sierra Nevada region since the 1920′s. That all changed last week when scientists confirmed (through DNA [...]
This past weekend my co-worker Lindsey and I ventured out of Leavitt Lake (just east of Sonora Pass) down into Kennedy Canyon for a three-day backpack trip into the new western addition of the Hoover Wilderness and the Emigrant Wilderness. During this adventure we were treated to expansive alpine views of granitic and volcanic mountains, [...]
This summer CSERC staff is especially busy with field work and much of their work time is spent in the beautiful surrounding mountains, as they conduct research and monitor resources. Below is a gallery of photos taken by staff members this year as they work and play in this amazing region – we hope you [...]
There is something truly special about seeing a woodpecker when you are out in the woods. Whenever I encounter one I can’t help but announce their presence to whoever happens to be listening, and I stop what I am doing to enjoy watching them for however long I can. Actually, there are many different species [...]