Apr 28, 2017 | Amargosa Vole, Plants and Wildlife
My internship with the Amargosa Conservancy here in Shoshone has made my path cross with the paths of some rather interesting and eccentric people. In the second to last week of my internship, I spent a night doing something that put me in that “eccentric” category...
May 24, 2016 | Amargosa Vole, Notes from the Field, Stewardship
“What’s a vole?” Is a question I have been hearing a lot from folks not intimately acquainted with the corner of the world where the Amargosa vole (Microtus californicus) is a star. I tell them it’s a small rodent that happens to be the most endangered mammal in the...
Apr 18, 2016 | AC In the News, Amargosa Vole, Groundwater, Plants and Wildlife, Resource Monitoring
From our not-so-forgotten corner of the Mojave desert: Two of our major areas of work were featured in a series on climate change produced by the Desert Sun and distributed via USA Today! That was great reading, and now here are some videos to go...
Apr 7, 2016 | Amargosa Vole, Habitat Restoration, Notes from the Field, Plants and Wildlife
In late November of 2015 our Student Conservation Association AmeriCorps intern Abby Mattson set about planning a greenhouse nursery in which to grow native three square bulrush (Schoenoplectus americanus). In the long run, this cultivated bulrush would be used in...
