I was surprised to hear that friends of mine, who are members at the Seymour Center and visit regularly, were not aware we’ve been running hands-on youth education programs for the last 24 years. Moreover, they didn’t know that their membership dollars helped fund education programs that reach kids across Santa Cruz County and the […]
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https://lookout.co/santacruz/environment/story/2023-03-09/mountain-lions-ucsc-researcher-chris-wilmers-on-how-new-highway-17-animal-crossing-protects-santa-cruz-mountain-lions
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Wildfire runoff may impede steelhead sense of smell
Swimming Upstream
https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/09/frog-pond-project.html
It’s probably safe to say that most beachgoers fear a shark attack more than any other single hazard at the beach. And perhaps surprisingly, on average, there is less than one death each year from a shark bite in all coastal waters of the United States… less than one fatality every year! The probability of […]
These days the news coming from the ocean is usually anything but positive or encouraging, whether ocean acidification, harmful algal blooms and closed fishing seasons, ocean warming and coral reef bleaching, water quality decline, overfishing, loss of habitat, sea-level rise and shoreline erosion, there are a mind-numbing list of problems out there to be concerned […]
Almost any new project in Santa Cruz become controversial almost the day it is proposed. You are often either for it or against it, and desal is no exception. There is often not much middle ground. A former Santa Cruz City Council member once told me from his years on the council that what typically […]
We will never run out of water on Earth, but we are running low on fresh water, locally and globally. Each of the water agencies around Monterey Bay is looking at multiple alternatives for providing water to customers in this 2nd year of a major drought and beyond. The Santa Cruz citizen’s Water Supply Advisory […]
