University of California Natural Reserve System

history & archive project

K-12 Teaching and Programs

This collection encompasses the administrative records of the Jack and Marilyn Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center (SGM). Created mostly by former reserve directors Phillipe Cohen and Cindy Stead Cohen, the collection includes the ten...View Record

This collection contains slide and print photographs of the Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve’s two sites—the Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory (SNARL) and Valentine Camp—which are run as a single unit through UCSB. Most of the...View Record

This collection consists of administrative records for the Frances Simes Hastings Natural History Reservation, the oldest UC natural reserve. Due to the volume of the collection, it has been broken down into series based largely...View Record

This collection includes 18 binders of K-12 educational curriculum materials on various environmental and biological topics compiled for the Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve (LHBC). Created mainly by Kim Smiley, the spouse of reserve director John Smiley, it...View Record

This collection contains the administrative and operational records of the UC Davis (UCD) NRS Campus Office pertaining to the reserves under its purview—Quail Ridge Reserve (QRR), Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve (SCC), Jepson Prairie Reserve (JPR),...View Record

This collection consists of large format images pertaining to Sagehen Creek Field Station and the surrounding area, including published and unpublished posters, maps, and blueprints, flipcharts and trifold posters used for teaching, and maps of research...View Record

This collection consists of miscellaneous historical materials of various provenance related to research and teaching at the Sagehen Creek Field Station. It includes files on: (1) Luna Leopold's records pertaining to Sagehen and the Frances...View Record

This collection relates to the administration and operations of Sagehen Creek Field Station before it joined the UC Natural Reserve System in 2004, including the scientific, land use, landscape history of the reserve site and...View Record

This collection contains Boyd Deep Canyon (BDC) reserve use applications for education and research, with limited correspondence regarding reserve use from 1978-2011. It also contains sign–in sheets tracking reserve visitation from 1992-2011.View Record

This collection includes consists of records from youth camp activities at the Northern California Coast Range Preserve operated by The Nature Conservancy (TNC), as well as data collected at the Preserve by anonymous researchers, most...View Record