California Native Plant Society
Santa Clara Valley Chapter
Santa Clara Valley Chapter
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UC Berkeley’s Blue Oak Ranch Reserve is a nature reserve and biological field station located in one of California’s iconic landscapes: the oak savannah and woodlands of the Diablo Range. In this talk, Zac Harlow will discuss some of the flora and natural history that makes this region special; the interesting research, field courses and groups that utilize the reserve; and some of the challenges of managing for biodiversity in a changing climate. About half of the 3,280 acres of the reserve were burned in the 2020 SCU Lightning Complex fire and Zac will discuss these impacts as well as the surprising resiliency of this special landscape.
Zac Harlow is committed to the idea that field stations can bring communities and nature together in meaningful and important ways. He is the resident director of Blue Oak Ranch Reserve and has worked to grow and diversify the user base over the last five years. His love of field stations runs deep. He lived on a station in Grand Teton National Park for many summers during his teens and twenties and is familiar with many more. Since moving to California in 2007, he has worked for the San Diego Zoo’s Wildlife Alliance, received his Ph.D. from UCLA and taught classes at Cal State LA and Cal State East Bay.
| Fri Feb 21 @ 9:00AM - Edgewood Restoration |
| Fri Feb 21 @10:30AM - 02:30PM NEW DATE! Manzanita Walk at Mt Madonna County Park (near Gilroy) |
| Sat Feb 22 @ 8:00AM - 10:00AM Lake Cunningham Native Garden |
| Sat Feb 22 @ 9:00AM - 11:00AM Community Work Day at the Native Plant Garden in Kirk Park |
| Sat Feb 22 @ 9:00AM - 11:00AM Cataldi Park Native Garden |
| Tue Feb 25 @ 7:00PM - 08:30PM Easy to Grow Native Plants, a Talk by Madeline Morrow |
| Tue Feb 25 @ 7:00PM - 09:00PM Native Plant ID - Focus on Ferns! |
| Thu Feb 27 Red Rock Canyon State Park (Mojave Desert) |
| Fri Feb 28 Red Rock Canyon State Park (Mojave Desert) |
| Fri Feb 28 @ 9:00AM - Edgewood Restoration |
