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Showing posts with label riparian habitat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label riparian habitat. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

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

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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

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