Articles about the NRS

J. Roger Samuelsen, first systemwide director of the NRS, fondly recalls and celebrates Mildred E. Mathias, "founding mother" of the NRS in "A Personal View of Mildred Mathias: A Woman for All Seasons" (PDF) (reprinted from Chronicle of the University of California, No. 3. Spring 2000).

Margaret "Peg" Herring, writes about the history of the NRS in "Studying Nature in Nature: The History of the University of California Natural Reserve System" (PDF) (reprinted from Chronicle of the University of California, No. 3. Spring 2000).

In August 2004, Sally Smith Hughes of the Regional Oral History Office at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library interviewed students and faculty who played a key role in the founding and development of the NRS’s Sagehen Creek Field Station. Her interviews have been collected in UC’s Sagehen Creek Field Station at Fifty. You can access a PDF version of this publication online at: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/collections/pdfs/sagehen.pdf

Elaine Miller Bond, Sr. Science Writer for the NRS from 1993-2001, writes about the history of the NRS in "Mother Nature's Lab" (reprinted from UCSD Perspectives).