Sentences with phrase «vernal pool»

It also ensures the permanent protection of a large vernal pool — important habitat for amphibians such as frogs and salamanders.

We then contaminated our vernal pool communities with three realistic concentrations of either NaCl or a road salt alternative made of NaCl, magnesium chloride (MgCl2), and potassium chloride (KCl).

Amphibian egg masses contain anywhere from 600 to 1,200 embryos, and wood frogs may deposit over 50 egg masses in a single vernal pool.

Once we established the vernal pool communities, we altered two - thirds of them to create «stressor treatments.»

This is a digital surface model of the vernal pool region of the Whetstone Savanna Preserve in southern Oregon generated from aerial images collected using a small drone.

Web Exclusive: Listen to an audio recording of a chorus of wood frogs at Broadmoor's vernal pool viewing platform.

If you're waiting for spring to really take hold before getting out to a wildlife sanctuary, you may be missing a spectacular natural occurrence — the annual vernal pool breeding season, with its accompanying symphony of frog and toad calls.

Take a one - hour guided walk, see a real vernal pool, and meet some larger - than - life characters eager to share their stories with you.

And we were in disbelief at the number of tadpoles we saw in a vernal pool at Moose Hill.

Additional experiences include field trips to Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary in Topsfield for seasonal activities such as maple sugaring, vernal pool observations, and ponding.

For example, if you child loves frogs, we could design a birthday with a nature hike, visit to our vernal pool to interacting with the animals that live in the vernal pool, and returning to the art studio to create frog inspired art.

If you are interested in wildlife and research, you can participate in one of Mass Audubon's ongoing wildlife studies, such as Horseshoe Crab Population surveys, vernal pool monitoring, snake surveys, and others.

2 - Rare Vernal Pools at the Santa Rosa Plateau For the first time in three years, winter rains have filled the large, natural, vernal pools dramatically drawing in migrating birds.

California vineyards are designed with the larger ecosystem in mind, preserving vernal pools, oak woodlands, and other wildlife habitats and creating nest boxes for owls, raptors and other beneficial birds.

Consisting of 9000 acres, the Reserve protects unique ecosystems and vernal pools, as well as more than 200 species of native birds and 49 endangered, threatened or rare animal and plant species.

Experienced and novice hikers alike can explore the Reserve and its local flora and fauna (including over 200 species of birds) throughout Engelmann oak woodlands, riparian wetlands, coastal sage scrub, bunchgrass prairie, and vernal pools.

TEMECULA VALLEY Southern California Wine Country, January 29, 2015: Behold the unique rain chandelier in the lobby at Pechanga Resort and the rare vernal pools at the Santa Rosa Plateau.

This data will help us certify our vernal pools.

You'll collect data about our vernal pools, tracking salamanders and toads.

We farm with the health of our adjacent woods, meadows, ponds, and vernal pools firmly in mind by actively stewarding these natural areas for birds and other wildlife.

We monitor vernal pools that are obligate habitat for a number of salamanders and frogs and have a program to restore and create vernal pools on our sanctuaries.

Join us for a night of costumed characters and lantern - lit trails as we celebrate the annual spring migration of salamanders and tree frogs back to the vernal pools where they were born.

This spectacular land contains vernal pools, forested upland, and freshwater wetlands including an active heron rookery and a beaver pond that provide habitat for several unusual species.

In addition to birding, some of Scott's other interests include tracking mammals, leading canoe trips, and studying vernal pools.

Trails wind through meadow, pine / oak upland, vernal pools, a stream, and a red maple swamp.

Sharon Collinge spent 2 decades studying efforts to preserve vernal pools in central California.

They flew drones over vernal pools, which are threatened, seasonal wetlands.

Also, vernal pools contain many species that interact through predator - prey and competitive interactions to form complex food webs.

While the Jefferson Project is focused on the influence of increased salinity in Lake George, wetlands, streams, ponds, and vernal pools in the surrounding watershed have links to the Lake George food web.

Yet, we don't fully understand how the increased salinity in vernal pools will interact with natural stressors (e.g., predator - prey and competitive interactions) of aquatic communities under natural conditions.

Understanding what happens in the vernal pools may improve future predictions for the dynamics of the watershed, and how human activities will affect other freshwater communities worldwide.

Species inhabit deserts, grasslands, chaparral, meadows, vernal pools, springs, montane woodlands, and forest understories.

Frogs, for example, are a critical part of the forest ecosystem, living with salamanders and other amphibians in vernal pools.

The Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) has awarded a research grant to Nature Conservancy Canada with the aim of preserving biodiversity in vernal pools throughout the Kenauk Canada nature property, which spans 65,000 acres (26,000 hectares) west of Montreal.

She has produced podcasts on vernal pools, urban garden innovations, environmental art and written stories pairing diverse subjects such as bats and bugs, drones and wildlife, and invasive plants and microbes.