Projects
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Summer Institute for Teens – TeenNat
Summer Institute for Teens Teens get up close and personal with butterflies, lizards, plants, lichens and the abundance of other plant and animal life during TeenNat, a 5-week long summer internship with continuing mentorship and networking opportunities. Interns participate in real research at Pepperwood and learn about career pathways in the
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iNaturalist.org
This cloud-based biodiversity database tracks the distribution of plant and animal species around the globe through user-submitted photo observations and GPS coordinates. Pepperwood holds iNaturalist trainings and has a dedicated Pepperwood Vital Signs project that gives researchers, interns, and inspired visitors an opportunity to share their natural history observations with
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Barnhart Herbarium
Volunteers play a major role in growing Pepperwood’s Stephen J. Barnhart Herbarium, which provides documentation of the vascular plants found across the preserve. In addition, the collection of non-vascular plant species such as mosses and liverworts as well as lichens and fungi began in 2013. These collections provide an important
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Conservation Science Internship (SRJC)
Pepperwood partners with the Santa Rosa Junior College to offer the annual Conservation Science Internship for students in the MESA program. The internship entails data analysis for our Wildlife Camera Array project, and the students’ deliverables help us make informed decisions for wildlife and land management done here at the preserve. Students gain