By Emily Rosa: November 17 was a beautiful fall day in Sonoma County. The sky was clear and it was a nice cool temperature. This was an answered prayer for many students in this year’s Restoration Ecology class, after the Read more
By Margaret Lambert: On November 17th, our Restoration Ecology class went to the Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation’s Educational Center. Here we were met by Brent, Paul, and Hannah. Eager to get started we began with an informational walk around Read more
By Raquel Guevara-Bolaños: On a crisp Friday morning, the students of Restoration Ecology from Sonoma State packed up and drove out to the Laguna de Santa Rosa foundation in Occidental. Our group was led by Brent Reed who is the Read more
By Audrey Glazier: One dark, cloudy day in November, my Restoration Ecology class was joined by students in another ecology class to attend an educational field trip with the Laguna Foundation. The goal was to learn about the Foundation’s restoration Read more
By Krissa Klein: Sonoma State University has two ponds on the north side of campus, not far from Copeland Creek. These ponds were originally meant for fire suppression, and are thus in ecologically poor shape. The water is an unappealing Read more
By David Wentworth: During our visit to Lagunitas creek, we were shown many different structures that had been created around and in the creek to better improve the health of its inhabitants. These man-made structures were created from a combination Read more
By Cindy Tanaka: Lagunitas Creek is a home for many species of salmon and for a rare species of shrimp. In the past, the morphology of the creek was changed due to agriculture to increase the farmland area. Not only Read more
By Audrey Zitnay: On Friday, October 6th our Restoration Ecology class had the opportunity to travel to the Lagunitas Creek arranged by our professor Wendy St. John. Lagunitas Creek is a 20 mile creek located in Marin County that flows Read more
By Makayla Freed: On Friday, September 1st, Professor Wendy St. John took the Restoration Ecology class for a walk up part of Copeland Creek, where previous Restoration Ecology students had both proposed and implemented a restoration plan. Our mission for Read more
By Heather Kelly-Cavanaugh: Our first lab session, on September 1st, consisted of our entire class going out to Copeland Creek with professor Wendy St John. It runs through the back of Sonoma State University, which surprisingly not many students know Read more
