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    Please Document Invasive Species Under Your Garden Pots!
    • May 11
    • 2 min

    Please Document Invasive Species Under Your Garden Pots!

    Land planarians, snails, slugs, insects, arachnids, worms, oh my! A guest post by Robin Agarwal This year, for the first time, Bioblitz...
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    It's spring flowers time!
    • Mar 31
    • 1 min

    It's spring flowers time!

    Download and print our short wildflower guide here and go out and enjoy spring!
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    100 Public Comments: Speaking for the Imperiled Newts of Santa Clara County’s Lexington Reservoir
    • Dec 10, 2021
    • 2 min

    100 Public Comments: Speaking for the Imperiled Newts of Santa Clara County’s Lexington Reservoir

    Concerned Citizens Fight to Reverse Local Extinction Trend, Seek Volunteers Over 100 heartfelt comments were read out loud, one by one,...
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    2017-2021 newt patrol survey report
    • Oct 27, 2021
    • 1 min

    2017-2021 newt patrol survey report

    The report includes an introduction about Pacific newts biology, their diet and life cycle, and how to distinguish the two species found...
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    Gall Week 2021 recap
    • Oct 16, 2021
    • 2 min

    Gall Week 2021 recap

    The first ever Gall Week event took place between 10/2-10/10/2021. As the project had only materialized two weeks earlier, it was...
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    It's fall gall season!
    • Sep 1, 2021
    • 1 min

    It's fall gall season!

    Next time you're out for a walk in your neighborhood or on a hike in the Bay Area, try looking closely at some of the oaks, especially...
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    BioBlitz Club 4th anniversary!
    • Aug 20, 2021
    • 1 min

    BioBlitz Club 4th anniversary!

    It's our fourth anniversary today - happy anniversary everyone! Our first BioBlitz was exactly four years ago on 8/19/2017, in Coyote...
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    How it all started
    • Dec 18, 2020
    • 2 min

    How it all started

    In November 2017, Anne Parsons, a citizen scientist and Midpeninsula Regional Open Space trail patrol volunteer, noticed many dead newts...
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    Where we are now
    • Dec 18, 2020
    • 1 min

    Where we are now

    Our team of volunteers surveys a 4 miles section of the Alma Bridge Rd once a week during the newt migration season, and twice a week during
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    Other roadkills
    • Dec 18, 2020
    • 1 min

    Other roadkills

    In addition to newts, we also document many other roadkills. So far, we documented over 400 individuals of 70 different species. Most...
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    A little bit of information about newt biology
    • Dec 18, 2020
    • 1 min

    A little bit of information about newt biology

    Two species of newts live on the hills around Lexington Reservoir: California Newt (Taricha torosa) and Rough-skinned Newt (Taricha...
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    Important links
    • Dec 17, 2020
    • 2 min

    Important links

    To learn more about pacific newts and about our project: You can view all our data under our umbrella project A report by the Road...
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    CHECK OUT ALL THE COOL THINGS WE DOCUMENTED TOGETHER IN OVER 40 EVENTS IN THREE YEARS!
    • Dec 5, 2020
    • 1 min

    CHECK OUT ALL THE COOL THINGS WE DOCUMENTED TOGETHER IN OVER 40 EVENTS IN THREE YEARS!

    The South Bay BioBlitzes iNaturalist project combines all the BioBlitzes we’ve done so far: 679 people have documented together over...
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    COVID EVENTS: VIRTUAL WALKS, PRESENTATIONS, AND BIOBLITZES!
    • Dec 4, 2020
    • 2 min

    COVID EVENTS: VIRTUAL WALKS, PRESENTATIONS, AND BIOBLITZES!

    After the beginning of COVID pandemic and the shutdown of public events in Santa Clara County, we canceled the rest of our events for the...
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    WHY WE LOVE iNATURALIST
    • Jul 20, 2019
    • 1 min

    WHY WE LOVE iNATURALIST

    We use iNaturalist to document our efforts. It's an invaluable tool for us. If you don't know what iNaturalist is, or if you are not sure...
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    WHY IS CITIZEN SCIENCE SO IMPORTANT
    • Jul 20, 2019
    • 2 min

    WHY IS CITIZEN SCIENCE SO IMPORTANT

    Citizen science is often called community science, crowd science, crowd-sourced science, civic science, volunteer monitoring, or online...
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