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BCCER Activities

  • Dean Houpis crossing Big Chico Creek
  • Dawn Garcia demonstrates bird banding
  • Natural Sciences Dean Jim Houpis and Field Director Paul Maslin on the windy Musty Buck Ridge
  • Use of fire to help make a shaded fuel break
  • Why do trees ALWAYS fall across roads?
  • Professor Dick Flory talks about fossils and Geology (Family Safari Day)
  • Professor Ray Barnett leads investigation at Family Safari Day
  • More family science at the BCCER Conference Center
  • Family science at the BCCER Conference Center
  • Entomology Class on the hunt
  • Chico Area Flyfishers prepare for Big Chico Creek fish-out
  • Graduate Assistant Mark Lynch demonstrates the root structure of a Spanish Broom Plant
  • Jeff, Jillian, and Jennifer on a spring hike
  • Bird Banding: Liam displays the underwing of a Black-headed grossbeak
  • Transporting a power winch (for broom pulling) via rubber duckie
  • Surveying a historic archaeological site
  • Rainy day discussion at The Wall
  • Stream monitoring with Anne Stephens
  • Alita with a Northern saw-whet owl
  • Pulling broom in the rain
  • Paul and Mark use two weed wrenches together to pull a large Spanish broom plant
  • Late Spring Hike
  • BCCER Director, Jeff Mott addresses the crowd at Candles in the Canyon
  • Hubers Father, Son and Northern Saw-Whet Owl

Bird Banding

  • Acorn Woodpecker
  • American Dipper
  • Ash-throated Flycatcher
  • Bat
  • Bat2
  • Belted Kingfisher
  • Black-headed Grosbeak
  • Black-headed Grosbeak 2
  • Black-throated Gray Warbler
  • Black-throated Gray Warbler 2
  • Blue bird
  • Downy Woodpecker
  • Dusky Flycatcher
  • Fox Sparrow, profile view
  • Fox Sparrow, front view

BCCER Fauna

  • Western Pond Turtles Sunning
  • Western Bluebird
  • Wild Turkeys in Spring
  • Slender Salamander
  • Striped Skunk (covered with burs)
  • Rosalia funebris aka banded alder borer
  • Ring-necked Snake
  • Foothill Yellow-legged Frog
  • Western Skink
  • Red-breasted Sapsucker
  • Western Rattlesnake
  • Western Rattlesnake
  • Caterpillar of Monarch Butterfly
  • Male Pallid Bat
  • Racer
  • Caterpillar of Pipevine Swallowtail
  • School of Spring-run Chinook Salmon Summering in Henning Hole
  • Turkey Tom Showing Off
  • Flame Skimmer Dragonfly
  • Blue Centipede
  • Two Black-tail Bucks
  • Yearling Black Bear
  • Gopher Snake
  • Very Young Fawn
  • Alligator Lizard
  • Black-tail Buck in velvet
  • Black-tail Deer Viewed Through Kobota
  • Wet Hoary Bat
  • Juvenile Racer
  • Long-horned Beetle
  • Banana Slug
  • Foothill Yellow-legged Frog
  • Fuzzy Caterpillar
  • Pacific Treefrogs
  • Frog
  • Spider
  • Owl
  • Fish
  • Reptile
  • Deer
  • Butterfly

BCCER Flora

  • Narrow-leaved Mule's-ear
  • Volcanic Onion
  • Valley Oak
  • Twining Ookow
  • Turkey-tail Fungus
  • Turkey-tail Fungus
  • Mountain Pink Current
  • Western Redbud
  • White-veined Wintergreen
  • Poison Oak
  • Phantom Orchid
  • Oso-berry
  • Scarlet Monkey-flower
  • Bush Monkey-flower
  • Big-leaved Maple
  • Manzanita
  • Humbolt Lilies
  • Shasta Lily
  • Humbolt Lily
  • Ponderosa Pine
  • Sierra Gooseberry
  • Scarlet Fritillary
  • Dendroalsia (Moss)
  • Fringed Water-plantain
  • Coral Fungus
  • Chinese Houses
  • Diamond Clarkia
  • White-stemmed Clarkia
  • Canyon Oak (& Mark)
  • Superb Mariposa-lily
  • Yellow Star-tulip
  • Western Spicebush
  • Elegant Brodiaea
  • Brachet Fungus
  • Bridges' Triteleia
  • Purple Milkweed
  • Sunflower
  • Tree
  • Fern
  • Lichen
  • Plant List
  • Moss
  • Fungi

BCCER Moods

  • Trees
  • Waterfall through branches
  • Forest in the wet fog
  • Fog over the bluff
  • Waterfall
  • Waterfall
  • Waterfall
  • Waterfall
  • Cliffs
  • Vernal Pools
  • Vernal Pool
  • Overlooking the bluffs
  • Bluffs
  • Overlooking the bluffs
  • Sunset through the Trees
  • Rock Formation
  • Snowy Trees overlooking the Bluff
  • Snowy Trees overlooking the Bluff
  • Snowy Trees
  • Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve Sign
  • Rock Waterfall
  • Waterfall
  • Creek
  • Trees
  • Small Spring
  • Creek
  • Rushing Waters
  • Rushing Rapids
  • Landscape
  • Trees
  • Waterfall
  • Overlooking the Bluffs
  • Flora
  • Mossy Stump
  • Waterfall
  • Small Waterfall over Mossy Rocks
  • A Rock
  • Creek
  • Cliffs/Lassen
  • Cliffs/Lassen
  • Interesting Tuscan Formation Structure
  • Sunset at the Barn
  • Rushing Creek Water
  • Interesting Rock on the Ground
  • Rock Formations through the Fog
  • Rock Formations through the Fog
  • Trees in the Fog
  • Flowers by a Path
  • Sunny Day on the Bluff
  • Person Sitting by the Creek
  • Creek Water
  • Seasonal Tributary
  • Big Chico Creek
  • Insect Crawling Across the Ground
  • Clouds in the Canyon
  • Clouds in the Canyon
  • Clouds in the Canyon
  • Dried Creek Bed
  • Big Chico Creek at
  • Lovejoy Basalt

Habitat Photos

  • Open Meadows
  • Meadow Dominated by non-native Annuals
  • Grassland
  • Open Grassland
  • Open Grassland
  • Wet Meadows
  • Wet Meadows
  • Wet Meadows
  • Riparian zones
  • Riparian zones
  • Riparian zones
  • Riparian zones
  • Blue oak savanna/woodland
  • Blue oak savanna/woodland
  • Blue oak savanna/woodland
  • Blue oak savanna/woodland
  • Valley oak savanna/woodland
  • Valley oak savanna/woodland
  • Valley oak savanna/woodland
  • Mixed woodland/forest
  • Mixed woodland/forest
  • Mixed woodland/forest
  • Mixed woodland/forest
  • Mixed woodland/forest
  • Mixed woodland/forest
  • Chaparral
  • Chaparral
  • Chaparral
  • Banded chaparral/savanna
  • Banded chaparral/savanna
  • Banded chaparral/savanna
  • Banded chaparral/savanna
  • A Manual of California Vegetation