Buckeye Canyon BioBlitz
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Buckeye Canyon offers a habitat quite different from most of San Bruno Mountain. Excessive rainfall in the November and December of 2022 set the stage for a tragedy. Then, on December 31, 2022 an atmospheric river dumped over six inches of rain in a continuous 12-hour period and caused a horrific landslide that changed the geology of the canyon from top to bottom. Now— 3 years later— the canyon is healing itself, and with some outstanding stewardship it is bending to mostly native species. We’ll conduct a bioblitz to assess the plants that have repopulated the erosion event. Along the way we will discuss the ecology of erosion events in a California Coastal climate and review of the science of erosion events as described by the USGS and other scientists.
Bring your cellphone with the i-Nat application loaded, and a lunch or snacks and water and sunscreen.
Contact David at [nelsondl@pacbell.net](mailto:nelsondl@pacbell.net) to register and get directions to the meeting place