Naturalist Night:Santa Cruz County’s Extraordinarily Diverse North Coast

About the talk:
Santa Cruz County’s North Coast is extraordinarily diverse with varied ecosystems, wildlife, plants, soils, and geology. Through slides and stories featuring specific places along the North Coast, will illustrate this diversity. We’ll cover coastal marine terraces and their vast coastal prairies, poor soiled ridges with unusual maritime chaparral, canyons and creeks harboring interesting fish, caves, and amphibians, and the many types of forests that weave between those systems. Learn about these special ecosystems as well as what threatens them and how you can help.