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Posted in News on Jan 27th, 2013
Spring semester classes started this week, and last Saturday’s volunteer day was devoted to clearing overgrown brush and cleaning up around the outdoor classroom, which will be heavily used this semester. The results were quite satisfying, as you can see in these ‘before’ and ‘after’ photgraphs: Have a good semester everyone […]
Posted in News on Dec 11th, 2012
BFS Director Marty Meyer is initiating an arthropod monitoring program at the BFS, and this past Saturday, volunteers helped get the program underway by installing permanent sleeves for pitfall traps in the non-native grasslands in the East Field and in the area of recovering coastal sage scrub. The data collected on the abundance and diversity […]
Posted in News, Web Updates on Dec 4th, 2012
A new update if the BFS Reptile and Amphibian List is now available. The changes to the list since the last update are minimal. Here’s what’s new: Links to the USGS Western Ecological Research Center’s Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Coastal Southern California have been repaired. Photos of reptiles and amphibians have […]
BFS student researcher Lauren Dorough, Cal State Fullerton, received a SACNAS Student Research Presentation Award at the SACNAS National Conference, held October 11–14 in Seattle, Washington, for her outstanding research poster, “Effects of Urbanization on Activity and Diversity of Southern California Bats”. Urbanization affects many bat species by causing loss of roosting sites and foraging […]
ABC Channel 7 news recently featured BFS researchers Prof. Chis Clark (Harvey Mudd Engineering) and his students and their work tracking sharks with autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs or robots). During this past summer and fall, the Clark group has been testing their AUVs in pHake Lake. If you happened by the lake at the right […]
Posted in News on Nov 21st, 2012
This past Saturday BFS Volunteers braved a rainy day to help with something different at the BFS. Instead of clearing trails or removing weeds, they helped with a BFS research project being carried out by Harvey Mudd senior Megan Wheeler. Megan is comparing carbon storage in the native coastal sage scrub and the east field, […]
Posted in News on Nov 7th, 2012
It is with great sadness that the BFS notes the passing of former BFS Director, Dr. Gene Fowler. Dr. Fowler died November 1, 2012, at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center following a serious illness. Dr. Fowler was Associate Professor of Biology at Pomona College and served as Co-Director or Director of the BFS from 1995–2001. […]
Posted in News on Nov 6th, 2012
This past Saturday a team of hard-working volunteers removed two species of invasive trees that were sprouting up in the Foothill Blvd parkway – Ailanthus altissima (Tree-of-Heaven) and Melia azedarach (Chinaberry). Both of these fast-growing Asian Trees resprout from stumps or root fragments, so the volunteers had to dig up the roots. The volunteers […]
Posted in News, Sightings, Web Updates on Nov 5th, 2012
A new plant invader has been spotted at the BFS – Melia azedarach. This tree is commonly known as Chinaberry, but also has many other common names, including Texas Umbrella Tree, Persian Lilac, White Cedar, Bead-Tree, Cape lilac, Ceylon Cedar, and Pride of India. Several sprouting clumps of M. azedarach growing in the Foothill Blvd […]
This past Saturday, a group of hardy volunteers turned out on a cool, misty day to complete the cattail clearing at pHake Lake. Our main target for the day was “south beach”, a supposedly open area on the south shore of the lake used by many classes. So everyone was in the water or in […]