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Botta’s Pocket Gopher

Botta’s Pocket Gopher is tan to medium brown and often the color of the local soil.  The gopher uses its short, powerful front legs and neck to “swim” through soil…

Vernal Pools

…to 200,000 years old, the soils under them began forming more than two million years ago. Dissolved minerals slowly moved down through the soil, eventually forming a hardpan layer. This…

Miniature Lupine

Lupine is a member of the pea family.  The plant is most noticeable for its palmate leaves and the large pea pods that hold its seeds.  The blue flowers are…

Critter Spotlight: Wynken, Blynken, and Nod!

…Herpetological Society. Then Splash adopted them in December of 2020. They completed our toad trio as Wynken and Nod. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod live in a bioactive terrarium, with soil…

Filaree or Storksbill

Filaree is a member of the geranium family.  The flowers have five pink petals.  Each flower produces five seeds, attached to a long stalk.  As the seeds dry, they detach…

Yellow Star-thistle

Yellow Star-thistle is a member of the sunflower family.  Each flowerhead is actually made up of 20-40 individual yellow flowers.  The spines on the sepals may still be sharp long…

Frying Pan Poppy

The Frying Pan Poppy is a member of the poppy family.  All members of this family have four petals.  The flowers are yellow.  The leaves are delicate and fern-like. Frying…

School’s out… YELC is in!

…it’s no wonder, thanks to a fun time at the Nimbus Fish Hatchery and Soil Born Farms with experts from CBEC Engineering and Stillwater Sciences! Wow – what a great…