Plant Spotlight – Poison Oak and Skunk Brush
Toxicodendron diversilobum and Rhus trilobata| TRRP
Toxicodendron diversilobum and Rhus trilobata| TRRP
As the weather starts to warm, California’s hillsides turn golden as grasses dry and take on a reflective sheen. Not only does California’s nickname “the Golden State” refer to it’s historic connection to the gold rush, it also refers to the rolling golden hills of native flowers, like the California golden poppy and less distinct […]| TRRP: Plant Spotlight – Grasses of the Trinity River Watershed
Wait, bats? Of the river? Yes! A river is more than its bed and banks, it is also intricately tied to the valleys, canyons, and forests through which it flows. Many North American bats are tightly associated with proximity to both forest cover and water (e.g. Dixon 2012), and the bats of the Trinity River watershed follow suit. In fact, some of our bats do almost all of their foraging over and near water, which in a dry, mountainous landscape like ours, means over the Trinity River and its tr...| TRRP
The northwestern pond turtle (Actinemys marmorata) has lived in the waters of the Trinity River for thousands of years. This species has undergone several taxonomic revisions since first being first described in 1841 (1, 2, 3). It was originally considered a single species with the southwestern pond turtle (Actinemys pallida) and called ‘Emys marmorata’. Then […]| TRRP: Animal Spotlight – Northwestern Pond Turtle
