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Elkhorn Slough Safari

The world's cutest marine mammal.  Photo provided by Yohn Gideon.

Otters and egrets and sea lions, oh my!

Pumas at PechaKucha

Veronica Yovovich explains the wide-spanning range of mountain lions.  Photo provided by Brendan Bane.

Among local historians and whale photographers, a member of the Santa Cruz Puma Project reached out to the Santa Cruz community at last Friday's PechaKucha night.

A Bike Park for Santa Cruz

A rendering of Valmont Bike Park in Boulder. Alpine Bike Parks, the company that built Valmont, will construct the Mount Hermon bike park.

Coastal California's first mountain bike park is coming to Santa Cruz County. It's kind of a big deal.

Carbon Offsets for Birding?

Nice place for a bird, right? The common cuckoo thought so. Thank Watsonville Wetlands Watch for rehabbing what used to be an ag field. Hilltromper photo.

Birding, oddly enough, can be tough on the environment, what with all that driving and flying. But Scott Smithson's got an idea: why not ask traveling birders to donate to groups doing habitat restoration?

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