By Noah Henry: On Friday, October 23, our class visited the Presidio of San Francisco which was hosted by members of Presidio Trust. We left Sonoma State at around 9 AM and arrived between 11 and 12 PM. Our mission was to witness a restoration project in action and learn Read more
By Teresa Vignale, Vanessa Fonti, and Cristina Scott: We started off our trip at one of the Presidio buildings, and made our way past some of the old military quarters turned into housing over the years as means to preserve them. We then walked down to marshlands connected to mountain lake Read more
By Jessica Furtado, Alizé Joubert, Nicholas Stone: Our Journey began at 9:00 AM on Friday, October 2nd. Dr. Hall Cushman’s Ecology class and Dr. Caroline Christian’s Restoration Ecology class from Sonoma State University boarded eight vehicles to caravan toward the Tule elk reserve at Point Reyes. Hours later, we arrived Read more
By Keith Wellstone and Eric Fuss: During this field trip, Sonoma State’s restoration ecology, and ecology classes learned about experimental design through the Pearson’s Point Ranch Elk reintroduction. Led by Dr. Hall Cushman, the class was introduced to the details of the experiment, and even got a chance to practice Read more
By Heidi Schindler, Megan Rosario and Megan Stock: On October 2nd, our Restoration Ecology class joined an Ecology class from Sonoma State University on a trip to Point Reyes National Seashore at the Tule Elk Preserve. The field trip was led by Dr. Hall Cushman and his graduate students currently Read more
As we’ll all be adding to this blog over the course of the semester, I thought I’d start the ball rolling with a post about how to write posts. Mostly, it’s just what you (probably) expect – you’ll be writing about what happened during a field trip or event, and posting Read more
I was able to bid farewell to some of our juvenile turtles today when they were released into the newly-restored Mountain Lake in the Presidio of San Francisco. This is one of the later phases of the project – reintroducing native species that were extirpated after the lake was severely Read more
By Wendy St. John: Is it your turn to write a blog post, and you’re not sure how to get started? No worries. Just follow the format here, and you’ll be off to a good start. At the very top of the post, make sure to include the names of Read more
Here I am, in my OFFICE, on the first day of the semester. SUPER EXCITED!
