Newsletters...

Newsletters: Friends receive newsletters two or three times a year, with information about Friends events, any news affecting the status of the BFS, news of activities at the BFS, recent sightings, and information about the flora and fauna of the BFS. If you would like to receive the email newsletter, please send a request to bfsfriends@earthlink.net.

Previous newsletters are also archived here for your perusal:

2023:

• December 2023 [pdf (9.7 MB)]
  Season’s Greetings to you all! · Nettles Urtica spp · Gray Fox Urocyon cinereoargenteus · Ecological Walk · Butterflies · And others! · Tours of the BFS · BFS Volunteer Days · Claremont Garden Club · Friends Website · The BFS: A Facility of the Claremont Colleges
• July 2023 [pdf (6.8 MB)]
  Acmispon glaber · Sightings · California Ground Squirrel (Otospermophilus beecheyi) · The Demonstration Gardens in the Ecological Walk · Two new species seen at the BFS in 2022 · Bernard Field Station 2022-2023 Academic Year Recap · Tours of the BFS · BFS Volunteer Days · Claremont Garden Club · Friends Website

2022:

• December 2022 [pdf (4.9 MB)]
  Oaks Quercus spp · Ecological Walk · Greetings from the BFS Director · Colorful Fruit! · Tours of the BFS · BFS Volunteer Days · Claremont Garden Club · Friends Website · The BFS: A Facility of the Claremont Colleges
• June 2022 [pdf (1.4 MB)]
  Meet the Inhabitants · Our Donation · Bernard Field Station 2021-2022 Academic Year Recap · Storm damage · Tours of the BFS · BFS Volunteer Days · Claremont Garden Club · Friends Website

2021:

• December 2021 [pdf (4.1 MB)]
  Brickellia californica at the BFS · Our Thanks · Interpretive Ecological Walk Along Foothill Blvd. Coming Relatively Soon · Volunteer Workdays Resumed this Fall · Tours of the BFS · BFS Volunteer Days · Claremont Garden Club · Friends Website · The BFS: A Facility of the Claremont Colleges
• June 2021 [pdf (7.7 MB)]
  California Scrub Jay · Sightings · Common Fiddleneck · Fragments within a fragment: classes poised to collect data to inform biodiversity conservation at the BFS · Prickly Pear Blossoms · Limited Volunteer Workdays Resumed this Spring · Recent Butterfly Photos · A flock of herons fished in the lake. · Landscapes and currants · Tours of the BFS · BFS Volunteer Days · Claremont Garden Club · Friends Website

2020:

• December 2020 [pdf (6.1 MB)]
  Help Make the Ecological Walk a Reality! · Yellow Rumped Warbler (Setophaga coronata) · California Aster (Corethrogyne filaginifolia) · Native Species at the BFS and at the Claremont Hills Wilderness Park · Fall Dispatch from the BFS · Developing a Faculty Network in a Biodiversity Hotspot: Research Experiences in Southern California for Undergraduate Ecologists Network · Tours of the BFS · BFS Volunteer Days · Claremont Garden Club · Friends Website · The BFS: A Facility of the Claremont Colleges
• June 2020 [pdf (4 MB)]
  The March Silent Auction · Western Toads · Sightings · Toyon · Help Make Our Vision for an Ecological Walk a Reality! · BFS Director�s Invitation · More Spring/Early Summer Photos · Tours of the BFS · BFS Volunteer Days · Claremont Garden Club · Friends Website

2019:

• December 2019 [pdf (2.2 MB)]
  Chaparral Clematis · Delphinium Hybrid · Wrentit · Butterflies · Plan for an "Ecological Walk" · Tours of the BFS · BFS Volunteer Days · Claremont Garden Club · Friends Website · The BFS: A Facility of the Claremont Colleges
• June 2019 [pdf (2 MB)]
  Band-tailed Pigeon · Distant Phacelia · Sightings · You spoke and the City listened! · Contributions to Regional Ecological Knowledge · We are Still Asking · Insect Apocalypse? · Tours of the BFS · BFS Volunteer Days · Claremont Garden Club · Friends Website

2018:

• November 2018 [pdf (835KB)]
  Redberry · Two Common Lizards · Sightings · A Short History of the Land North of Foothill · The BFS: Frequently asked questions · Some Photos · Tours of the BFS · BFS Volunteer Days · Claremont Garden Club · Friends Website · The BFS: A Facility of the Claremont Colleges
• June 2018 [pdf (2.3 MB)]
  California Vole · California Thistle · Sightings · Plenitude of Papers! · We are Still Asking · Some Recent Photos · Tours of the BFS · BFS Volunteer Days · Claremont Garden Club · Friends Website

2017:

• November 2017 [pdf (4.4 MB)]
  Bush Sunflower · Raccoons · Sightings · BFS Research Highlights · Update on Redford Conservancy Renovation · In Memoriam: Carol Cox · Photos · Tours of the BFS · BFS Volunteer Days · Claremont Garden Club · Friends Website
• June 2017 [pdf (2.2 MB)]
  Join us on the 4th of July! · Silent Auction · Sightings · Climbing Milkweed · Robber Flies · Fire at the BFS! · Fire Adaptation · Update on Redford Conservancy Renovation · Still No Announcement of a Change in BFS Protection · Some Recent Photos· Tours of the BFS · BFS Volunteer Days · Claremont Garden Club · Friends Website
• January 2017 [pdf (3.4 MB)]
  Silent Auction · Sightings · Western Poplar Clearwing Moth · Cotton Thorn · Our Latest Donation to the BFS · BFS Director Resolutions for 2017 · Recent Photos · Robert Redford Conservancy Update · Why No Change in BFS Protection? · And More Recent Photos · Tours of the BFS · BFS Volunteer Days · Claremont Garden Club

2016:

• June 2016 [pdf (1.8 MB)]
  Please join us on the 4 of July! · Goldback Fern · Sightings · Mexican Cactus Fly · Tours of the BFS · BFS Volunteer Days · Claremont Garden Club · BFS Publications for the 2015-2016 Academic Year · Silent Auction · Books · Earth Day · Robert Redford Conservancy Update · Has the promise to preserve the center part of the BFS (the TRP) been kept? · Recent Photos

2015:

• November 2015 [pdf (2.4 MB)]
  Highlights from the BFS Annual Report · Sightings · New K-12 Program at the BFS! · Update on the Status of the Field Station · Coyote Brush · Micromoths · Tours of the BFS · BFS Volunteer Days · Sustainable Claremont Garden Club · Recent Photos
• June 2015 [pdf (2.7 MB)]
  Eastern 26 Acres Have Been Sold · Sightings · Join Us On July 4th · Field Guide to the Butterflies at the BFS · 11 New Species Added to BFS List · California Bay · Tours of the BFS · BFS Volunteer Days · Claremont Garden Club · Western Harvest Mouse · Recent Photos · BFS Earth Day Open House

2014:

• November 2014 [pdf (1913 kb)]
  Sightings · Lemonade Berry · Desert Cottontail · Native plants are not always desirable! · Plant adaptations to a dry climate · Tours of the BFS · BFS Volunteer Days · Sustainable Claremont Garden Club · Update on plans to build on the BFS
• June 2014 [pdf (1234 kb)]
  Sightings · Tours of the BFS · BFS Volunteer Days · White-lined Sphinx Moth · California Four O'Clock · Wild Canterbury Bells · Sustainable Claremont Garden Club · Invasive Grasses · Update on plans to build on the BFS · Earth Day

2013:

• December 2013 [pdf (1261 kb)]
  Sightings · Honeypot Ants · Soap Plant · Outstanding student research · BFS Volunteer Days · Sustainable Claremont Garden Club · Some Notes on Fire Adaptation
• June 2013 [pdf (966 kb)]
  Last Paper Newsletter! · 4th of July · BFS Receives Funding from the National Science Foundation! · Copepods · Canchalagua · BFS Volunteer Days · Sustainable Claremont Garden Club
• February 2013 [pdf (967 kb)]
  Auction · City Council Candidate Statements · The Pink Glowworm · Calabazilla, coyote gourd · BFS Volunteer Days · Sustainable Claremont Garden Club · A bit more on the Redford Conservancy

2012:

• November 2012 [pdf (720 kb)]
  New BFS Director · Robert Redford Conservancy to be located on BFS · Pomona College buys 50 acres of hillside for a field station and retreat · Thoughts on �natural areas� · Mexican Cactus Fly and Pinebush
• February 2012 [pdf (871 kb)]
  Annual Silent Auction · BFS Volunteer Days · Invasive Plants at the BFS · Update on the Division of the BFS · Greater Roadrunner · BFS Director Search · Inflorescence Types

2011:

• November 2011 [pdf (1124 kb)]
  Development in the Quarry · The BFS: a Short History and the Current Situation · BFS Director Sought · Toyon, California Holly · California Ebony Tarantula
• June 2011 [pdf (919 kb)]
  Meet Dr. Jennifer Gee · Southern California Toad · Wedge Leaf Honeydew · Three New Species · Leaves
• February 2011 [pdf (189 kb)]
  Habitat Preserved · Habitat Lost · Statements from City Council Candidates

2010:

• November 2010 [pdf (272 kb)]
  Butterflies · Scalebroom · Update on College Plans · Stephen Dreher Departs
• June 2010 [pdf (195 kb)]
  Update on Harvey Mudd Plans · Harvester Ants · Popcorn Flowers · BFS 30th Anniversary Open House
• February 2010 [pdf (1002 kb)]
  Auction · New Lichen Discovered · Nevin's Barberry · Western Gray Squirrel

2009:

• October 2009 [pdf (245 kb)]
  New Pond at the BFS · Telegraph Weed · Galls
• June 2009 [pdf (373 kb)]
  Update on HMC Plans · Assorted Information · Four Spot · Bobcat
• February 2009 [pdf (920 kb)]
  New Plans to Build on BFS · What Constitutes the BFS · Wild Cucumber · Some BFS Animals · Habitat · Election issue: Statements from City Council Candidates

2008:

• June 2008 [pdf (514 kb)]
  New Elementary School Program · CUC Drops Plan to Build on BFS · BFS Website · Croton californicus · Ladybug · Common Insect Orders
• February 2008 [pdf (418 kb)]
  Auction · Deerweed, California Broom · California Ground Squirrels

2007:

• October 2007 [pdf (391 kb)]
  BFS & Schools · Big Leaf Mistletoe · Dragonflies · Fruits
• June 2007 [pdf (323 kb)]
  Introduction Reduction! · Scorpion · Milkweed · Inflorescence Types · Johnson's Pasture Purchase
• February 2007 [pdf (118 kb)]
  Election issue: Statements from City Council Candidates Linda Elderkin, Michael Keenan, Mike Maglio, Jackie McHenry, Opanyi Nasiali, Sam Pedroza, and Peter Yao

2006:

• October 2006 [pdf (243 kb)]
  Measure S · Annual Tobacco · Snails
• June 2006 [pdf (352 kb)]
  Johnson’s Pasture Assessment District · CGU Housing Project · Mining Ordinance · General Plan Update · Redberry · California Toad · Botanical Miscellany
• February 2006 [pdf (384 kb)]
  Silent Auction · Pinebush · Coots · General Plan Update

2005:

• October 2005 [pdf (400 kb)]
  CGU Housing Project · General Plan Update · Dodder · Bobcat · Fire Prevention with Goats
• June 2005 [pdf (352 kb)]
  CGU Housing Project · Lichens · Summer Research at the BFS · General Plan Update
• February 2005 [pdf (464 kb)]
  Election issue: Statements from City Council Candidates Corey Calaycay, Ellen Taylor, Sam Pedroza, Russ Brown, Al Leiga, Llewellyn Miller, and Michael Keenan · General Plan Update

2004:

• October 2004 [pdf (360 kb)]
  General Plan · Coast Live Oak · Bacillus bacteria · BFS Observations
• June 2004 [pdf (476 kb)]
  General Plan · Southwestern Pond Turtle · Sugarbush · Summer at the BFS
• February 2004 [html | pdf (388 kb)]
  Winter Visitors · College Master Plan · Yerba Santa · Bees · Rare Plants · General Plan

2003:

• October 2003 [html | pdf (416 kb)]
  Lyle Gustaveson · City General Plan · Blue Elderberry · Gray Fox · pHake Lake
• June 2003 [pdf (308 kb)]
  Community Access · Golden Currant · California Quail · Expenditures · North Campus History
• February 2003 [pdf (312 kb)]
  Election issue: Statements from City Council Candidates Jackie McHenry, Peter Yao, Zephyr Tate-Mann, Jeffrey Carman, Karen Rosenthal, and Sandra Baldonado

2002:

• October 2002 [pdf (380 kb)]
  Willow · Greater Roadrunner · Edge Effects in Coastal Sage Scrub at the BFS
• June 2002 [pdf (516 kb)]
  Buckwheat · Pink Glow Worm · Effect of Lead in Gasoline on the Environment next to Foothill Blvd
• February 2002 [pdf (356 kb)]
  Blue Dicks · Fairy Shrimp · Map of the Field Station

2001:

• October 2001 [pdf (400 kb)]
  Larry Oglesby · BFS entry sign · Nettles · Cactus Wren
• June 2001 [pdf (172 kb)]
  Contested Land documentary · Cane Cholla · Horned Lizard · Infirmary · 4^th Graders Learn Native Uses of BFS Plants
• February 2001 [html | pdf (180 kb)]
  City Council Candidates · CEQA Lawsuit Settlement · Toyon · Legless Lizard

2000:

• June 2000 [html | pdf (156 kb)]
  LEEP program · Wild Cucumber · Dodder · Woodrat · General BFS Information
• March 2000 [pdf (72 kb)]
  City's List of Benefits of Approving the NCMP

1999:

• December 1999 [pdf (73 kb)]
  More on CPCC · Where we are in the NCMP approval process
• November 1999 [pdf (75 kb)]
  More FAQs · Coalition to Preserve Claremont's Character referendum
• August 1999 [pdf (100 kb)]
  Answers to FAQs · BFS History · Quotes from Opponents to Building
• July 1999 [html | pdf (45 kb)]
  Update on the Status of the EIR for the North Campus Master Plan
• May 1999 [html]
  News and Status of the Environmental Impact Report for the North Campus Master Plan