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Carl showing group a map of the location of Jasper Ridge.
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Carl explaining our route through various plant communities
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Starting out on our walk
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Carl telling about wildlife cameras on the preserve.
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Carl showing pictures of animals taken by the wildlife camera right at the spot where we were standing.
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Diane showing group how to recognize poison oak
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Checking out the soap plants
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Diane showing Black Oak leaves.
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Carl pointing out the yellow Chile Trefoil along trail 15.
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Carl is telling interesting stories about the lives and habits of wood rats.
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Tour group walking through serpentine grassland
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We saw masses of Leptosiphon, Owls Clover and Goldfields in bloom
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Here a long-horned fairy moth is sipping nectar from a Goldfield.
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Diane demonstrating the non-native, invasive Italian Thistle
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Diane pointing out the deeply lobed leaves of Valley Oak
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Group on road F
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walking across the contact between serpentine (background) and non-serpentine soils (foreground).
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This turkey vulture just had a drink - an unusual sighting!
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At the charparral/grassland boundary, Carl asked the group what could have caused the bare zone there.
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Diane's story about the discovery of the cause of the bare zone.
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Heading back.
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Carl finishing the tour and encouraging the participants to continue enjoying nature.
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The group at the end of the tour. They look like they enjoyed it!