Ryan Berger talks to us about one of his most critical projects as Point Blue’s head biologist on the Farallone Islands: rescuing entangled whales. He also talks about his work on the response of the island’s marine pinnipeds, seals and seal lions, to environmental variation and climate change.

Ron Eby & Robert Scoles have spent 1000’s of hours observing, documenting and photographing the sea otter, showing that the rebounding otter population resulted in the come-back of the eel-grass that offers a protected nursery for herring, crabs, and many other species and that eating tons of crabs by the otter has brought back the eelgrass.

Researcher and wildlife photographer Paul Donahue will explore the the variety of breeding and winter shore birds along the beaches & rocky shores of our San Mateo County Coast

An intriguing look at the striking diversity of plant life on much-praised San Bruno Mountain, our neighbor. Find out just how different their herbs and shrubs are from San Pedro Valley Park, even though there are definite similarities. For instance, we both have the rare Montara Mt. manzanita and brittle leaf manzanita, but they also have 3 other species of these red-barked plants, two of which are endemic to “their” Mountain.