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700 acres of farmland in Monterey County to be preserved – Monterey Herald
4+ hour, 12+ min ago (22+ words) The funds to conserve local ag land are part of more than $45. 5 million in grants from the Sustainable Agricultural Lands Conservation....
Pacific Grove scientists hold their breath for healthy annual monarch butterfly migration
6+ mon, 6+ day ago (839+ words) PACIFIC GROVE " Longtime residents love to regale Natalie Johnston about the days when they had to sweep piles of western monarch butterflies off their front porches. They tell tales of teeming kaleidoscopes of butterflies spending the winters on the Central…...
Tom Karwin, On Gardening: Hummingbirds in flight
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (587+ words) One of nature's fascinating aspects in the garden is the flight of hummingbirds. The UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic Garden is featuring these avian phenomena during Hummingbird Month, which started Sunday. Here are info bits about these unique birds, drawn…...
Kelp restoration film reveals extent of crisis, hope for recovery
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (474+ words) PACIFIC GROVE " The bull kelp forests of the Pacific Coast began to decline in 2013. A perfect storm of events "a climate-induced marine heatwave, a strong El Ni'o season and the explosion in population of a voracious kelp eater " obliterated the…...
Lisa Uttal, Finding Sanctuary: Restoring and conserving Elkhorn Slough through science, resource protection and stewardship
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (16+ words) Monterey Herald...
Holiday rescues: SPCA Monterey County helps injured eagle, oiled birds
4+ mon, 4+ hour ago (11+ words) Monterey Herald...
Western monarch migratory count numbers remain low
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (181+ words) PACIFIC GROVE " The Thanksgiving holiday has historically marked the peak sightings of western monarch butterflies on California's Central Coast. The peak reached 8, 000 this year, a fraction of what the tally should be in a year with a healthy monarch population....
Finding Sanctuary |Searching for lost sharks, beyond the movie "Jaws
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (349+ words) Essential to marine ecosystems, sharks maintain the balance of the food web as apex predators, preventing any single species from dominating in the sea and ensuring overall ocean health. This critical role has cascading effects on other organisms and is…...
Patrice Vecchione, Walkabout town: Take me to the river
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (159+ words) Take me to the river and drop me in the water. Dip me in the river, drop me in the water. Washing me down, washing me down." I reached for notebook and pen. And, no surprise, another line of poetry…...
Jane Goodall, conservationist, lover of sea otters and Monterey visitor, has died
6+ mon, 4+ week ago (62+ words) Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91. The Jane Goodall Institute announced the primatologist's death Wednesday in an Instagram post. According to the Washington, D. C. -based institute, Goodall died…...