Stories

Longtime Midpen volunteer Hal Tennant celebrated his 91st birthday the "Midpen way.” Staff and Tennant’s family worked together to hold a volunteer event removing invasive French broom and thistle species from an ongoing restoration site at Bear Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve.

For years, the nesting site of a seabird called the marbled murrelet was a mystery to scientists. It wasn’t until 1974, when a tree trimmer doing work after an unusual winter snowstorm found an odd-looking bird with webbed feet high up in a Douglas fir tree at Big Basin State Park.

The Los Gatos Creek Watershed Collaborative held a tour for media and legislative representatives in the Lexington Hills last month to highlight the work it’s doing to create a fire resilient Santa Clara County.

Did you know that the largest and most consistent population of western purple martins (Progne subis arboricola) in Santa Clara County is on Midpen lands?

Under the warm sun of the first day of June, a diverse group of 23 hikers - families, friends and strangers - gathered at the picturesque Pulgas Ridge Open Space Preserve for Saved by Nature’s second community hike.

Midpen reached a major milestone in the Highway 17 Wildlife and Trail Crossing Project.

Recently, as bicyclists rode the Alpine Road Trail through Coal Creek Open Space Preserve for the first time since major improvements to it were completed, they thanked Midpen staff who had worked on the project as they pedaled by. 

Help us identify, tag and sort images from wildlife cameras at Midpen preserves, join a brand new team of volunteers that will support our community outreach events, building networks and sharing information about Midpen's work or engage in community science during the annual Sudden Oak Death bli

Although serpentine soils only make up about 1% of California’s land surface, where they do occur, “serpentine syndrome” makes a striking impact on the landscape.

Midpen, University of California, Berkeley and several local conservation organizations are teaming up for the annual SOD Blitz from May 18-21.