Category: Naturalist Notes
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Eel River Recovery Project Findings Featured in News
Findings from the Eel River Recovery Project (ERRP) were recently featured on the front page of the Mendocino County Observer. The ERRP have performed yearly surveys of non-native Sacramento pikeminnow populations in the South Fork…
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Turbidites and rip-up clasts in Elder Creek
Elder Creek, part of the South Fork Eel River watershed, lies in the Franciscan Formation found underfoot in most of the Northern Coast Ranges of California. The rocks here were deposited in marine environments when…
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A new crayfish may be invading the Eel, unfortunately.
On March 14 2015, Mary Power found a new crayfish in the South Fork Eel River, just north of the Angelo Coast Range Reserve on the eastern edge of the first pool below confluence of…
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Ring necked snakes
Ring necked snakes are brown on top, except for an orange ring, right behind their heads. Do snakes have necks? But underneath (ventral side), ring-necks are right orange. In a defense display, this snake is…
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Oscar and the Fox Creek Slime Mold
Oscar Chang and I encountered this bright yellow spongy mass on a mossy rotten log on the south (left looking downstream) bank of Fox Creek, about 50 m up from the confluence with South Fork,…
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Beetle that mimics appearance and movement of yellow jacket…
July 2014 was perhaps the most intense yellow jacket season we’ve ever experienced at Angelo. On July 17, 2014, Casey Huckins and Mary Power spotted a “yellow jacket” in a funnel web’s spider web on…