by Ann Elliott | Feb 27, 2025 | Field Trip Reports, News Items
Vegetation Time Traveling(Plant Succession) – 2/12/2025Ann Elliott Understanding plant succession helps to explain how vegetative landscapes change and function.Plants first establish themselves on new land or exposed rock, as after a volcanic eruption. They can re-establish themselves in an area that has been disturbed by fire, floods, or land use. In San Geronimo Valley, Kurt Rademacher...
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by Ann Elliott | Jan 30, 2025 | Field Trip Reports, News Items
By Caroline Christman Participants in the Indian Valley Open Space Preserve plant walk were treated to a misty morning that blossomed into a lovely, sunny day. After we met at the Indian Valley College Campus, we walked past Pacheco Pond to the Ken Harth Waterfall Trail. Along the switch-backing trail to the ridgeline we were treated to a medley of ferns, sanicles, and irises beneath a canopy of...
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by Ann Elliott | Sep 1, 2024 | Field Trip Reports
By Lena Zentall A small group of seven set off in the mist to explore Abbotts Lagoon on Saturday August 17, 2024. Our journey started with several patches of ghostly cobwebby thistle (Cirsium occidentale) in its final bloom. Coyote brush (Baccharis pilularis) was beginning to flower and to show us whether it was a male or female plant. Female plants have small paint brush-like flowers that turn...
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by Vernon Smith | Jul 25, 2024 | Field Trip Reports
Report on the Field Trip: Laguna Trail/Fire Lane Trail/Coast Camp/Santa Maria Beach/Coast Trail/Laguna Trailhead
By Susan Schlosser
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by Vernon Smith | Sep 25, 2022 | Field Trip Reports
Report on the Field Trip: Laguna Trail/Fire Lane Trail/Coast Camp/Santa Maria Beach/Coast Trail/Laguna Trailhead
By Susan Schlosser
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by Vernon Smith | Apr 21, 2022 | Field Trip Reports
Selected Highlights of the April 16, 2022 Field Trip to Jepson Prairie
Field Trip Leaders: Charlie Russell and Russ Huddleston, Solano Land Trust
Field trip Report: by Susan Schlosser
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