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Showing posts with label Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge. Show all posts

Sunday, December 31, 2017

Birds Aren't the Only Thing to See at a Great Valley Wildlife Refuge

River Otter at the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge California's Great Valley (called by some less proud people the Central Valle...

Saturday, December 12, 2015

A Visit to a Remaining Piece of America's Serengeti: A Great Valley Love Story

Red-shouldered Hawk at entrance to the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Every so often, I remember what an extraordinary place I liv...

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Evening Scenes of a Primeval Landscape: The Great Valley as it was

It's my home, and I've been known to denigrate it for it's pollution, dust, and visual desolation (hundreds of miles of monot...

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

A Truly Great Valley: Ruminations on California's Most Valuable Resource

What is the most valuable mineral commodity in California, the so-called Golden State? Gold? Not hardly. We produced somewhere around 150 ...

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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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