We often think of winter as a time for rest. A quiet moment of dormancy spent in preparation for what’s to come. Yet for some California native plants, winter is their time to shine.
Journey one mile down the Harrington Creek Trail from the main parking area in La Honda Creek Preserve, and you’ll discover two new benches where you can pause, rest and take in spectacular views of surrounding coastal hills and forested ridges.
The trail improvement project has reached a key milestone – completion of retaining walls at Alpine Road Trail’s lower trailhead, where the paved road meets a dirt tr
Months before rain starts, Midpen's trail crews typically transition from large-scale trail repair, maintenance and construction projects to annual “trail checks” in anticipation of the coming winter storms. Cre
The organization, which received Midpen grant funding, led the group of 30 hikers through Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve. They had come from Oakland, Sunnyvale and across the Bay Area to hike with Saved By Nature and one another.
Midpen's award-winning Geographic Information Systems (GIS) team took those thousands of collected data points and turned them into a user-friendly web-based app called Trail Explor
Recently, Midpen rangeland ecologist and botanist Lewis Reed stumbled across a tarweed at Tunitas Creek Open Space Preserve that he did not recognize, a find that would lead him to discover not one, but three locally rare native plants.
