The Big Creek Blog

Dear Big Creek Volunteers past and future,
I would like to request your help for a re-vegetation project at the UC Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve. We are doing some construction of a earthen berm to protect the Gatehouse from rock falls. This will involve removing the existing vegetation to allow movement of dirt […]

I got a message from Feynner on October 30 that there was a female steelhead trout up in Devil’s Creek Flat. Feynner saw it digging its red (nest) there in what is some of the best spawning habitat in the watershed. I was able to get up there on November 4 and 5 to get […]

We know that wildfire is a key part of the ecology of the Bay Area and has played a major role in shaping our landscapes. Yet it’s simply not possible to let fires burn naturally in an urban region such as ours. But just to the south, the 240,000-acre Ventana Wilderness near Big […]

I looked at the blog record for storms of 2009 and found the “first big storm of 2009” entry. During that storm in February, the creek went from 1.8′ to 2.8′ with just 2-3 inches of rain. We got 9 inches that month at the Highlands Peak weather station.
Well, on October 13 alone, we recieved […]

Biologists from Ventana Wildlife Society’s Condor Recovery Project in Big Sur made a disappointing discovery on July 21st. They found the lifeless body of a wild California condor chick lying in thick brush beneath its redwood nest tree in Landel-Hills Big Creek Reserve. Joe Burnett, Sr. Wildlife Biologist for the VWS Condor Project and who […]