Showing posts with label Stanislaus County. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stanislaus County. Show all posts
Monday, March 11, 2024

The End of the Tuolumne River! (It's not as bad as it sounds...)

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The slough at the headquarters area of Dos Rios State Park Back in the 1980s, Douglas Adams published his hilarious "trilogy" of t...
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Friday, January 24, 2020

Our Dinosaur is Here (More or Less). Stanislaus County's Secret is Soon to be Out!

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Parasaurolophus We are anxiously awaiting one of the last fixtures in our Great Valley Museum's Outdoor Nature Lab...our dinosaur! ...
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Sunday, March 4, 2018

The Sounds of Science (with apologies to Paul Simon): Kids are More Talented Than You Think

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Strange things were afoot on Saturday at Modesto Junior College, where I've been teaching for the last thirty years. There was a Tyran...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Oh, Nuts. What a Great Reason to Destroy the Remaining 5% of the Original California Prairie

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Vernal swales on the summit area of Table Mountain. These have some similarity to vernal pools on the valley floor but are also different...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

The Water Pirates: A Can a Day is All We Ask (plus 107 million gallons)

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New orchard on the California prairie It's a sad and familiar story for California: there is a valuable resource in the ground, free...
Friday, March 25, 2011

What Does An Urban Small Stream Flood Advisory Flood Look Like?

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It looks kind of like this.... Dry Creek has its headwaters in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada north of Modesto Reservoir. It flows sout...