Stewardship and Volunteer Opportunities: Coastal Edition, Fall 2024
Some ways to show love to our coastlines and their wild inhabitants.
Tag: pinnipeds
Fur Seals Making a Comeback on the Farallones
Recent surveys on the Farallones show that the islands' cute, feisty fur seals continue to make a comeback, more than a century after the West Coast population was hunted nearly...
High Time For Harbor Seal Pupping
Unlike sea lions and elephant seals, harbor seals shun attention. A harbor seal may flee at the slightest disturbance, and mothers have been known to abandon pups when harassed. Late...
Tracking an Extreme Mammal: Elephant Seals
They can plunge to depths of more than a mile and stay submerged for 90 minutes without coming up for air. They can swim up to 14,000 miles a year....
Winter Wildlife Watching
Valentine's Day is right around the corner, and nothing melts the heart like the sight of a newborn marine mammal pup. How about a thousand of them? That's how many...
Elephant Seals at Point Reyes
Last January, “Ear to the Ground” wrote about the elephant seals at Año Nuevo State Park in San Mateo County, the area’s best known population of these large pinnipeds. But...
