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Showing posts with label Red Hills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Red Hills. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Red Hills Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Couldn't the Bureaucrats Just Call it a Preserve?): Spring Update

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Welcome to one of the most unique ecosystems and habitats in California's wealth of incredible places. It was ignored initially by miner...
Sunday, May 23, 2021

California's Rarest Ecosystems: The Serpentine Soils of the Red Hills (Part Two of a Two-part Miniseries)

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  Imagine a world turned upside down and inside out. A place where the underworld realm is exposed to view, where all is out of equilibrium....
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Sunday, May 5, 2019

Tales from the Semi-Super-Bloom Tour, Part 4: Into the Realm of Demons, the Red Hills

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Human mythology finds bigger meanings in everyday stories, i.e. vast battles fought in the heavens, on earth, and in the depths below pitt...
Sunday, April 1, 2018

In the Red HIlls Area of Critical Environmental Concern, a Promise of Spring (and a rare fish)

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We saw exactly two poppies blooming. In a few weeks there will be thousands. It has a clumsy name that only a bureaucrat could love, but...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

A Living Kaleidoscope in the Red Hills of the Sierra Nevada Foothills

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I always thought that kaleidoscopes were named after someone named Kaleid, but the authoritative source (Wikipedia, of course) indicates ...
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Garry Hayes
I am a teacher of geology at Modesto Junior College and former president of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, Far Western Section. I have led field trips all over the western United States, and a few excursions overseas, but my homebase is the Sierra Nevada, the Great Valley, and the Coast Ranges of California.
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