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Posted in News, Sightings, Web Updates on Oct 9th, 2012
We’ve recently added six new insect taxa to our BFS Invertebrate List – two bee flies, a shore fly, a butterfly, a cuckoo bee, and a wasp. Thanks to the folks who helped observe, photograph, and identify these insects, including Jonathan Wright, Hartmut Wisch, John Ascher, Joel Kits, Martin, Wayne Mathis, and the folks at […]
Posted in News on Oct 8th, 2012
Last Saturday, October 6, was the second volunteer workday for the fall. Part of the volunteer crew worked on clearing the remainder of the trail around pHake Lake, while the rest of the crew worked on cattail removal. As you can see from these photos, the trail clearing crew was quite successful. The entire trail […]
Posted in News on Sep 17th, 2012
After a summer break, BFS Volunteer Days have now resumed. This year we will be holding volunteer workdays on the first and third Saturday of every month. The schedule is posted on our new BFS Volunteer webpage, and events will also be announced on our new BFS Facebook page. Our first volunteer workday of the […]
Posted in News on Sep 12th, 2012
Please welcome our new BFS Director — Dr. Wallace (Marty) Meyer! Marty completed his Bachelor’s degree in Marine Biology at UC Santa Cruz and went on to obtain a Master’s degree in Biology at Humboldt State University and a PhD in Zoology at the University of Hawaii, where he studied the impact of invasive introduced land snails on […]
Posted in News on Sep 2nd, 2012
Fire season is now upon us. A wildfire – now dubbed the “Williams Fire” – broke out at about 2 pm today in the Los Angeles National Forext approximately 10 mi northeast of the BFS, and the smoke from the fire was very visible at the BFS this afternoon. By 9:00 pm tonight, the Williams […]
Posted in News, Sightings, Web Updates on Aug 25th, 2012
Since our last update we’ve added fifteen new taxa to the BFS invertebrate list, including 1 katydid, 2 bugs, 2 beetles, 3 flies, 1 butterfly, 5 bees, and 1 wasp. As always, many thanks to everyone who’s helped observe, photograph, collect, and identify these inverts, including Ben Stapp, Jonathan Wright, Hartmut Wisch, John Ascher, David […]
Posted in News on Jul 9th, 2012
This past Saturday, volunteers set up a soil solarization trial at the BFS. The area to be solarized was cleared of rocks and vegetation and covered with clear plastic, which will be left in place for 2–3 months. The plastic will trap heat generated by solar radiation (the greenhouse effect), causing soil temperature to rise […]
Posted in News, Sightings, Web Updates on Jul 4th, 2012
The BFS Mammal List has been recently updated. In the last year, in addition to confirming that we still have the Western Harvest Mouse, we’ve added five new species to at the list – all bats: Tadarida brasiliensis (Mexican Free-tailed Bat) Eptesicus fuscus (Big Brown Bat) Lasionycteris noctivagans (Silver-haired Bat) Lasiurus cinereus (Hoary Bat) Myotis […]
Posted in News on Jun 22nd, 2012
Claremont McKenna College has just posted this terrific video highlighting work Keck Science Biology 44 students do at the BFS. Check it out!
Although the BFS volunteers collected fistfuls of thistles last week, they didn’t quite get all the ones by the toad pond and southeast corner of the wake, so they went back this past Saturday for a few thistles more. We also collected some Italian Thistles that were in the vicinity. When we thought we had […]