Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve

13 Aug, 03 AM - 14 Aug, 05 AM

This is a University of California Santa Barbara Wildlands class. Students will be learning field research techniques, and conducting surveys. Specifically: 1) conduct fishery/stream habitat investigations in Big Creek and Devils Creek. Students use masks and wetsuits to census steelhead, and they use transect tapes, compases and stream markers to map the stream 2) assess the abundance and behavior of sea otter populations. This is primarily done along the Highway i section between Big Creek and Esalen - censusing otters inside and outside the Big Creek marine reserve along a 4 mile section of coast 3) Intertidal surveys (primarily at Limekiln beach) and survey/map plant communities within the Big Creek reserve. 4) learn to take detailed field notes, make maps and keep field notebooks. Additional field explorations will be scheduled as well.

Visit #10380 @Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve

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Under Project # 6471 | Class

Big Sur Wildlands- UC Santa Barbara

faculty - Cabrillo Community College

Reservation Members(s)

Group of 2 Faculty Aug 13 - 14, 2006 (2 days)
Group of 14 Undergraduate Student Aug 13 - 14, 2006 (2 days)
Nicole Crane Aug 13 - 14, 2006 (2 days)

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