Showing posts with label Vernal pools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vernal pools. Show all posts
Sunday, April 4, 2021

California's Rarest Ecosystems: The Prairies and Vernal Pools (Part One of a Two-part Miniseries)

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The lower foothills of the Sierra Nevada are one of the most unique and almost universally ignored parts of California. Caught between the f...
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Friday, January 11, 2019

The Outdoor Nature Lab at the Great Valley Museum Takes Shape

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For thirty years it was nothing more than a dream, something hoped-for, but never realized for lack of funds. Ten years ago it became a po...
Thursday, March 3, 2016

Volcanic Violence and California's Most Endangered Habitat: The Vernal Pool Prairie

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The green hills of California's prairie barely conceal a horrific violent past. Around 20-23 million years ago, huge volcanic eruption...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015

Where the Rivers are "Upside-Down": A Hike to the Stanislaus Table Mountain

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Around 10 million years ago, a lava flow surged from a volcano near present-day Sonora Pass in the Sierra Nevada. Composed of latite, but ...
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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...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

A Cat in the Bird House? It haz no 'egrets, but I do!

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The other day I posted about our discovery of a nearby treasure, a bit of the California Prairie being returned to a "pre-European...