Donations Please consider a donation to help fund this newsletter and our educational activities. We depend on public support. Thank you! The Friends of the Bernard Biological Field Station is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization, and contributions are tax-deductible. | A bumper sticker will be sent to every donor who requests one. (A one dollar donation is suggested for each additional bumper sticker requested). A lovely poster showing a heron at the lake will be sent to all donors of $50 or more if requested.
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P.O. Box 1101, Claremont, CA 91711. The Bernard Field Station is located North of Foothill Blvd between College Ave and Mills Ave. | What is a Field Station?
A field station is land left in its natural state for use in thestudy of complex interactions between plants and animals. Theusefulness of such natural laboratories depends on size sinceextinctions occur frequently in small areas. Who uses it?
Claremont Colleges faculty and students, college classes fromas far away as Long Beach, members of the public and manyClaremont schoolchildren visit the Station. What's there?
There are over 30 acres of the fast-disappearing coastal sagescrub community with a number of species of special concern. Since much of Claremont was originally covered with coastal sage scrub, it is a fascinating window into our past. There is a stand of oak woodland in the north where waterwells up along an earthquake fault, there is annual grasslandslowly returning to coastal sage scrub in the east, and there is aone-acre, man-made lake excavated in 1978 which is a sanctuaryfor western pond turtles displaced by development. |