A Decade to Re-up on Restoration Globally
May 31, 2021
Editor’s note: In support of the UN’s Decade on Ecosystem Restoration Point Blue has crafted our own declaration and commitments that can be found here. We plan to add to these commitments over time, as we assess ways of increasing the pace, scale, and impact of our climate-smart conservation. The decade 2021-2030 has been designated
Pyrodiversity and Biodiversity in the Sierra
May 4, 2021
By Dr. Grant Ballard, Chief Science Officer Point Blue has monitored California’s iconic Sierra Nevada ecosystems since the 1970’s, with a particularly extensive study of birds and vegetation covering thousands of locations across the entire mountain range beginning in 2009. This long-term study serves as a witness to the transformation of Sierra ecosystems that is
Science News: Fire, Owls, and Farallon Gulls
April 30, 2021
The Benefits of Fire for Birds Fire is a phenomenon that may not be easy to think positively about when it comes to areas where we live, especially in California right now. But the story is more complicated than whether fire is all good or all bad. In the Sierra Nevada our research has revealed
An Abundance of Insight into Community-Based Restoration
April 28, 2021
by Celida Moran, Restoration and Education Technician For many people on the San Francisco Peninsula, Half Moon Bay has long been a weekend destination to enjoy locally caught seafood, coastal hikes, accessible beaches, and plant nurseries. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the area has only increased in popularity as people continue to seek outlets for outdoor
Major Grant Launches New Project to Advance Soil Stewardship on Working Lands
April 26, 2021
Working lands, like farms and ranches, are often seen as a climate change contributor. However, farms and ranches also have great potential to be a part of the climate solution. Soil carbon sequestration is an important key to unlocking that potential, and rebuilding soil carbon on working lands will also help to achieve many other
Antarctica 2020-21: An Unusual Season
April 5, 2021
This update on our conservation work in Antarctica comes to you from the only three biologists that were able to go this past season due to restrictions with the COVID-19 global pandemic. We start with some video field updates from Seasonal Field Technician Parker Levinson and then we hear from Antarctic Program Director Dr. Annie
Big Partnerships for Big Impact
March 12, 2021
by Tom Gardali, Group Director, Pacific Coast and Central Valley Group Conservation is challenging. But partnerships make it possible. The California Landscape Conservation Partnership (LCP) is an alliance of public and private land managers, scientists, and interested groups committed to solving natural resource challenges that are too large or complex for any single entity to
Attractive and Beneficial: Groundwater Recharge Basins Can Be Both for People and Wildlife
February 26, 2021
With the lack of rain this fall and winter, comes anxiety about California’s water future for people, wildlife, and agriculture in California’s Central Valley. Our rainfall not only produces benefits at the surface like wildlife habitat and food crops, but it also recharges our stores of water below ground, otherwise known as groundwater aquifers. Even
The Case for Nature-based Solutions
February 12, 2021
By Mani Oliva, C.E.O. Recently, President Biden issued an Executive Order to raise the level of our ambition to fight climate change. This Executive Order recognizes the urgent need as well as the short time-frame we have to act. Therefore, the Executive Order creates a roadmap of how the federal government will take on a
Science News: Winter Science and the UN’s Declaration
February 4, 2021
The UN’s 2021 Resolution: More Restoration! The United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration starts this year! Point Blue is excited to use our decades of restoration experience to contribute to this global effort. Habitat restoration is one of the major solutions to wildlife declines, the climate crisis, and human health challenges. In recent years, we’ve
