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Evaluating Particulate Matter Air Quality in Borrego Springs and Air Quality Salton Sea presentations 1-12-2020
Presentations available for download: - Air Quality Reduction Due to the Shrinking Salton Sea- An Overview and Case Studies of Particulate Matter Air Quality in Borrego Springs (Year 3) Report mentioned in the Salton Sea presentation: Pacific Institute page on the...
2019 Sheep Count Results
Citizen Science - Annual Bighorn Sheep Count 2019 Sheep Count (by year) Click on the dates by year below in order to download the full report.
Christmas Bird Count Results
The results are tallied! Download the Christmas Bird Count CBC results Noticeable short-term (last 3 years) population increases include Ring-necked Duck (29 to 82 birds), Northern Flicker (35 to 86), and American Robin having a big year (16 to 188). Conversely,...
127 days with 100 °F or more were recorded in the Borrego valley this year
127 days with 100 °F or more were recorded in the Borrego valley this year , logged by our weather station, part of the UCNRS Climate Monitoring Network, located at the Colorado Desert District Office park headquarters. Data from prior years can be found here:...
2018 Sheep count results
Sheep Count in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Thanks to all who participated.
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park mule deer family in Sentenac Cienega.
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park mule deer doe and fawn drinking water from a spring in Sentenac Cienega.
USD summer fieldwork conducting aquatic invertebrate surveys
Kate Boersma, Assistant professor at the University of San Diego has taken her students to the reserve and state park to conduct aquatic invertebrate surveys. Photos and a few captions from Kate's Twitter account reproduced below.
A visit by a thirsty Bobcat last week at the reserve’s water feature.
Yearly transect work on the reserve
Annual Transect plant counts and soil samples on the reserve by UCI faculty, staff, and grad student last week. 2 transects on the ground, one on a south slope, and one a north slope. With the lack of rain, plant counting went a lot faster than last year (Photos:...
Making a vegetation map of the Sentenac Cienega site
UCI's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology faculty and students went out defining the existing plant associations to make a vegetation map of the Sentenac Cienega site in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. The map will be used to develop a restoration plan for...