On the road with the Reno Hawk Project
If you see two guys in a silver Ford truck cruising slowly through your neighborhood, pulling u-turns and jumping out to peer into the trees above your house with binoculars, ...
A Morning With Muskrat, Oxbow Nature Study Area
If you follow 2nd Street west until the end, then continue down Dickerson Road past the warehouses and apartment complexes, you'll descend a small hill, pass through a gate, and ...
Signs of spring? A walk in Mayberry Park
On Friday morning in Mayberry Park, I sat on a rocky beach of round river cobbles, the rushing sound of moving water creating a peaceful backdrop for a squawking flock of ...
Little river, big data: 10 Citizen science projects for the Truckee River region
Want to help out with a citizen science project? Here are ten that you can add to from the Truckee River region. Some are small, locally-based projects that are doing big ...
Citizen science, and the many ways of knowing.
Last week, I spent two days at the first-ever Citizen Science Association conference in San Jose, CA, gathering ideas and inspiration for making improvements to Truckee River Guide. Citizen science, ...
After the rain: A walk in Dorostkar Park
The best part about this project is that it provides me with unlimited opportunities (excuses?) to go walk near the river, which is one of my favorite things to do. This past ...
iNaturalists at Sagehen Creek
On a blustery, unseasonably warm February morning, Kaitlin Backlund, Janet Zipser Zipkin and I travelled down a bumpy dirt road through a forest of pines and firs to Sagehen Creek ...
Mysterious mink: Is our mink population growing?
This morning, I held an American mink in my bare hands. It was dead, and its insides and eyeballs had been replaced with white stuffing, but that took little away ...
Puddles and pools: A walk on the Truckee in Tahoe City, CA
On a gray Friday afternoon in January, I walked up the bed of the Truckee River channel in Tahoe City, CA, picking my way over rocks and icy patches; notably ...
Geese on Ice.
On this second morning of 2015, the thermometer outside my window registered a chilly thirteen degrees. I headed for the river and arrived before the sun came up over the ...