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Videos Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve Live Learning at Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, UC Santa Cruz Years of textbook lessons come alive during Ecology and Conservation in Practice, a field course taught at the NRS's Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve. The Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, UC Natural Reserve System Situated on California's scenic Big Sur Coast, the NRS's Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve provides researchers and students with a spectacular location to study nature. Scientists use the reserve to track water quality, monitor fish populations, and survey California's disappearing native wildflowers. Students from UC Santa Cruz use the adjacent marine reserve to test their underwater research skills, and schoolchildren visit Big Creek to learn how animals adapt to their environment. Quail Ridge Reserve Quail Ridge Reserve: The Natural and Human History of California's Coast Range in Summer, Quail Ridge Wilderness Conservancy The Northern Patwin people lived along the stretch of the inner Coast Range now known as Quail Ridge Reserve. Quail Ridge Reserve: The Natural and Human History of California's Coast Range in Fall, Quail Ridge Wilderness Conservancy Early Mexican settlers to California established a rancho on the site; their grazing cattle would fundamentally alter the area's vegetation. Quail Ridge Reserve: The Natural and Human History of California's Coast Range in Winter, Quail Ridge Wilderness Conservancy The town of Monticello grew up on the site of the rancho and became a hub for the region's farmers. Quail Ridge Reserve: The Natural and Human History of California's Coast Range in Spring, Quail Ridge Wilderness Conservancy The building of a massive dam created Lake Berryessa. Now the area's defining feature, the lake has served to protect Quail Ridge from development and exotic invasion, and helps make it an ideal site for its current incarnation as a UC Natural Reserve. Sagehen Creek Field Station Where did all these butterflies come from?, Sagehen Creek Field Station Ryan Hill explains why large numbers of butterflies appear each spring at Sagehen Creek Reserve. Males pause to drink from muddy spots to obtain minerals, while butterflies of all sexes feed on nectar from the meadow's abundant wildflowers. Many species pause here while on migration. The Leopold Family Legacy at Sagehen Creek, Sagehen Creek Field Station Sagehen Creek Field Station's ties to conservationist Aldo Leopold and family, and how Leopold's son Starker cofounded the field station as a site for fisheries research. Earthwatch Caterpillars, The Durfee Foundation The Earthwatch caterpillar research project at Sagehen Creek Field Station allows high school students to participate in a field ecology study of interactions between caterpillars, plants, and parasitic wasps. Adventure Risk Challenge, L.L. Bean Katie Zanto, founder of Sagehen Creek Field Station's Adventure Risk Challenge program, explains how her idea to combine outdoor education with intensive leadership and English language instruction galvanizes at-risk high school students to go on to college. Voices on the Rise, Adventure Risk Challenge An insider's look at the 40-day Adventure Risk Challenge summer course, which blends outdoor education with intensive literacy and leadership training. A Closer Look at ARC's 40-Day Summer Program, Adventure Risk Challenge ARC founder Katie Zanto, and students and instructors in the Summer 40-Day 2008 ARC program, share what makes this blend of academics, outdoor adventure, and leadership training unique and successful. 1 2 3 4 5 6

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