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Poppies, pollywogs, lupine and love-struck lizards are celebrating spring on the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve despite this year's scant rainfall.
Though there was a mountain lion scare last month, schoolchildren, seniors and families are back soaking up nature on the reserve's popular trails.
This time of year the big attraction is the vernal pools - giant rain puddles teeming with life. The pools are already shrinking with evaporation, so their most famous residents, the half-inch fairy shrimp that hatch out with the first rain, have already spent their two-week life spans. Full Story...
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