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2020: Reflections on a Challenging Year

December 23, 2020
By Gregory C Ira
We can rise to challenges, or we can resign ourselves to fate. Many have been quick to label 2020 as a bad year, as if we had no role in its making or how we respond to it.
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River Turbidity Sample

2020 Service Pin Updates

December 21, 2020
By Eliot T Freutel
2020 Service Pin Updates Each day brings us closer to 2021 and we find ourselves taking inventory on the lessons learned from this past year. We all did our best to make it through the isolation and despair and now hope is on the horizon for a brighter tomorrow.
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Ocotillo on the Boo Hoff trail, Santa Rosa Mountain wilderness

Biodiversity at all Scales is Good

November 21, 2020
A "Natural History Note" From UC California Naturalist's new lead scientist, Dr. Cameron Barrows. To many people, biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word nature,' and nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough.
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Why Do We Need Naturalists?

October 30, 2020
A colleague recently posed a rhetorical question, Why do we need naturalists? It gets to the question, Why is the UC California Naturalist program important?
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