Located between Highway 101 and the Pacific Coast Highway in Mendocino County, is one of the most pristine pieces of northern coastal range ecosystems, the University of California's Angelo Coast Range Reserve.
It is a story of pristine forests, streams and riparian corridors stewarded by over 60 years of conservation.
Host Dave Schlom talks to Reserve Caretaker Peter Steel, whose grandparents Heath and Marjorie Angelo deeded the land to the Nature Conservancy in 1959, making it the first Nature Conservancy landholding in the western United States.
Dave then visits with two scientists who have worked at the reserve for decades.
Mary Power is a food web ecologist from UC Berkeley and the Faculty Director of the reserve whose work on algae in the river ecosystems has provided incredible insights into the workings of aquatic food webs.
Her husband and longtime science partner is William Dietrich, a geomorphologist in the UCB Department of Earth and Planetary Science. Bill discusses how the complex geology of the coast range helps store and move water in fascinating ways.
