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Friday, October 11, 2024

Twice in 2024! Auroras in Central California

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Back in May of this year, I saw something I had never seen before: the aurora borealis gracing the night sky over the prairie of the Sierra...
Saturday, May 11, 2024

A Stunning Night: The Aurora Borealis from Central California

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It has been a stunning night. I never believed the auroras would make it into Central California, and most of the predictions suggested it w...
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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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Saturday, May 18, 2019

Tales from the Semi-Super Bloom Tour, Part 5: Coming Home

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" We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for...
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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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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