Flashback Friday: What’s all the commotion?
Today's Flashback Friday is a profile of the American Coot – learn about how these birds favor their more attractive offspring! Ever on the lookout for interesting Read More…
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The Vibrant, Vivacious, Varied Thrush
With the look of a particularly flamboyant robin, the varied thrush (Izoreus naevius) is an eye-catching part-time resident in California forests. This colorful male, spotted by one Read More…
Change is Hard: The Vulnerability of Salmon Populations to Climate Change
The novel and rapidly evolving challenges of global climate change will test the adaptability of all species, and some will be hit harder than others. Identifying the Read More…
Film Friday: Get Ready for the Salmon Festival!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lglXBvjtG-0 The Stanislaus River Salmon Festival is coming up tomorrow, Saturday November 9, from 10 am–3 pm at the Knights Ferry Recreation Area! To get you excited Read More…
Fall Traditions: The Stanislaus Salmon Festival
Fall is in full swing, and so is the fall-run Chinook salmon migration in the Central Valley. As is our fall tradition, we’ve installed fish counting weirs Read More…
Bustin’ Berms: The Restoration of Tule Red
On October 15th, an excavator trundled out onto the narrow isthmus of land separating the freshwater Tule Red pond from Suisun Bay and began digging. As the Read More…
Flashback Friday: Heavy Metal
In today's Flashback Friday, we describe the installation of a rigid weir to monitor both upstream and downstream fish passages – including with a video of the Read More…
The Curious Case of the Jerusalem Cricket
Few insects in California are as strange as those in the genus Stenopelmatus, such as this individual spotted by one of our scientists in the field. Even Read More…
Genetic Time Machine: Insights from Century-old Salmon Scales
If Antiques Roadshow is any indication, forgotten treasures have a tendency to turn up in unassuming boxes stashed away in damp basements and dusty attics. In most Read More…
Photo Friday: Black, Orange, and Fuzzy All Over
Just in time for Halloween, today's photo Friday is a close-up of a woolly bear caterpillar. Easily identified by their distinctive orange and black-bands, woolly bears are Read More…