The Big Creek Blog

Here is a video I put together a while back showing what Big Creek looks like under the surface of its waters. It is in standard definition but until I get a high def version going, this will have to do. I snorkeled down the creek with a video camera and then added footage of […]

The past two weeks, while the biologists from NOAA Fisheries have been doing their steelhead surveys, they found pink salmon. A total of three pink salmon observed, two females and one male. The male and one female were observed the first week (27-28 September), all three were observed the second week (3-4 October).
This […]

Here is a link to another article published by Terra Kelly et. al. on lead exposure.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0017656
In this study they found that the California lead ban in the current CA condor range seems to be reducing lead exposure in turkey vultures and golden eagles. They sampled at Big Creek Reserve in 2008 & 2009.

Here is the link to the publication of lead exposure research done by Terra Kelly and Christine Johnson. http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015350
In 2008 & 2009 Terry and Christine used Big Creek Reserve as a study site to detect lead in the blood of scavenging birds. They found that lead toxicity in the blood increased during deer hunting season […]

We received an unusually wet storm for this late in the Spring. The satellite image shows a system resembling a strong winter storm. For about 24 hours we had steady and heavy rain, especially in the Santa Lucia Mountains. Big Creek watershed was at the top of the list for precipitation counts for the entire […]