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Update on CSERC’s Painted Frog

Published on June 23, 2008

Bob just finished his painted frog and it will arrive at the SNAC in Murphys hopefully this week. Here are a few pictures of the final product, and I can only imagine how spectacular this shading and texture must be in person.


CSERC Members Practice What They Preach!

Published on June 12, 2008

So far, our blogs have focused on the efforts and interests of CSERC. In this blog however, we’d like to focus on the accomplishments and actions of our CSERC members who bring the local environment into their daily lifestyle. Recently, two of our CSERC members, Tracy Knopf and Bob Carabas approached us with […]


Wolverine Sightings in the Sierra Nevada Causes Excitement in the Science Community

Published on May 12, 2008

For years, CSERC biologists have maintained camera detection wildlife stations in the Stanislaus National Forest in search of elusive forest furbearers including martens, fishers and wolverines. While we have detected the adorable pine marten throughout the forest (see picture below), we have yet to get photographic evidence of fisher or wolverine. Wolverine, as […]


CSERC’s volunteer day in the Red Hills was a huge success!

Published on April 28, 2008

This weekend, the staff at CSERC and close to 20 volunteers gathered at the Red Hills on Saturday morning. The mission: to work with Mark Pertersen of the BLM on cleaning up several locations that have been used as a shooting range over the years. As many residents of this area know, this […]


Welcome to the new CSERC blog!

Published on April 14, 2008

Hello! The staff at CSERC has created this blog in order to be able to interact with the large community of people who care about the Sierra Nevada region and what CSERC does to protect it’s diverse ecosystem. We want this to be a place where we can be a little less formal […]