by Karen James, Senior Field Volunteer, River Otter Ecology Project Otters are my passion. I leap at any chance to observe these charismatic beings. I am very fortunate that I live in an urban area that has quite few of them. One such place is a...
By Terence Carroll, ROEP President, Informatics and Data Manager I headed out on a quiet Tomales Bay morning. A few fishermen dotted the bay, and I nodded a greeting to a fellow kayaker putting in at the launch. I stowed my field gear in my trusty research...
Dear friends, Point Reyes National Seashore requests and needs your help by November 30. Please join us in submitting concerns and comments about how you would like the park to be managed going forward. Your input will affect what happens to the tule elk,...
By guest blogger Robyn Aston June 25, 2018 Robyn is River Otter Ecology Project’s Board of Directors Volunteer Lead. He also volunteers on our monitoring team, camera trapping and scat collecting. He works in the lab on our prey study, and you can often...
By guest blogger Beth Cataldo December 10, 2017 Beth is a certified California Naturalist, Winter Wildlife Docent at Point Reyes National Seashore and a BeachWatch volunteer at the Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association. She began volunteering with ROEP in June...
By Megan Isadore, Executive Director, River Otter Ecology Project August 24, 2017 Some days start out well and get better. I love taking our partners out to seek otters. We don’t always see them, but we always see interesting and beautiful things because… it’s usually...