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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 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 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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Posted in News on Jun 5th, 2012
In our third week of Star-thistle Wars, the BFS volunteers focused on an infestation around the ‘new’ toad pond and the areas along the trails and fire roads just southeast of pHake Lake. We removed nearly all the star-thistles in this area, and the haul made quite a mound!
Posted in News on May 27th, 2012
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…. Oops! Wrong STAR WARS. Right now, in this very galaxy, on this very planet, right here at the Bernard Field Station, the valiant BFFs of the BFS battle are battling alien invaders in the STAR-thistle WARS. The alien invader is the Maltese Star-Thistle (Centaurea melitensis) […]