Barry Breckling

Barry Breckling was a California State Park ranger for 38 years, including 30 years at Henry W. Coe State Park. Now based in the Sierra Nevada foothills, he and his wife, Judy, work on botany projects around Yosemite National Park.

Ticked Off

April 1, 2011 •  by

Ticks can be trouble, yet you can’t help but admire their toughness as they cling to vegetation waiting for a meal to come within arm’s length. Fortunately for us, some of those meals come from western fence lizards, whose blood neutralizes the pathogen that causes Lyme disease. Now that’s a handy bit of natural selection!