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July 27, 2016
Desolate. Boring. Barren. At first glance these words seem the perfect descriptor of the long, flat drive along Mexican Highway 40 through the Sonoran Desert. Despite the multitude of countries and towns I have...
July 19, 2016
The San Diego Zoo’s desert tortoise research team in Las Vegas, Nevada sometimes wonders what goes on in the world of the desert tortoise when they aren’t looking. New technology has assisted at...
July 19, 2016
Each week in June, we eagerly returned to lower Dark Canyon within the San Bernardino National Forest. Treading lightly with eyes carefully scanning every rock, log, and crevice in the creek bed, we walked in and...
July 13, 2016
Among the many programs organized by the Institute for Conservation Research is one directed towards undergraduates and future graduate students: the Summer Fellowship Program. This program, which takes place every...
July 12, 2016
During my fellowship at the Plant Conservation Division, I did an arthropod collection experiment where I compared two insect pollinator trapping methods. The Plant Conservation Division wanted to look at changes...
July 12, 2016
We thought 2016, our 10th year, was going to be a quiet year for our frogs. We had a big year last year producing more offspring than ever before and a review of previous years’ reproductive data...
July 12, 2016
It’s been a long time coming. We committed to contributing our efforts to save the endangered Pacific Pocket Mouse (PPM) 10 years ago. Last week, we reintroduced our first group of 50 mice back...
July 07, 2016
“I don’t want to freak you out, but Robyn in Peru said there’s a mild case of dengue going around.” And “Do you think you could fit 24 pounds of peanut butter in your bag?” These...
July 07, 2016
It was a foggy morning on the coast when monitors spotted something strange. Sitting on the sand among the California least terns was a bright white bird! This bird was nothing like any of the other birds commonly...
July 07, 2016
Have you ever heard of ‘farm-to-table’, the trendy movement towards eating locally sourced food? Well here at the Keauhou Bird Conservation Center we like to treat our birds to ‘forest-to-foodpan...
