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Organizations
- Bay Nature
magazine. The April - June 2004 issue features an article on Edgewood.
- Edgewood
Weed Warriors. Can you believe it? The Edgewood Weed Warriors have their
very own website, thanks to Drew Shell.
- San Mateo County Parks Department,
the government body responsible for Edgewood. Their website contains some
general information about the management of Edgewood.
- San Mateo County Parks and Recreation Foundation,
a non-profit organization established in 1998 to financially support the recreational,
environmental and educational programs and projects of the San Mateo County Parks
Department.
- California Native Plant
Society, Santa Clara Valley Chapter, the local chapter of this statewide
organization. Their website offers lots of information about native plants
in the area and related events.
- Committee for
Green Foothills, a grass-roots organization working to protect and
preserve the hills, forests, creeks, wetlands, and coastal lands of the San
Francisco Peninsula.
- Midpeninsula Regional Open Space
District, a special district of over 25 preserves in Santa Clara, Santa
Cruz, and San Mateo Counties. While Edgewood is not an MROSD preserve, MROSD
maintains a Joint Powers Agreement with San Mateo County over the management
of Edgewood.
- Natural Resources Database, a
searchable inventory of flora and fauna on many open space preserves on the
San Francisco Bay Peninsula. Data for Edgewood flora, as derived from Toni
Corelli's list below, is included.
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Jepson Online Interchange, providing "latest information on
identification, taxonomy, distribution, ecology, relationships, and diversity
of California vascular plants" from the Editors of the
Jepson Flora Project.
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS),
a partnership of U.S., Canadian, and Mexican agencies, other organizations, and taxonomic
specialists cooperating on the development of an on-line, scientifically credible, list of
biological names focusing on the biota of North America.
Individuals
Lists and Discussion Groups
- California Natives, a discussion group created by Greg McCann.
To subscribe, send an email message to listserv@calypteanna.com with the words
"subscribe ca-natives Your_First_Name Your_Last_Name" in the body of the
message. The address that you send the message from will be added to the discussion
group.
Other Sites
- Bay Nature
magazine. The April - June 2004 issue includes a feature article on Edgewood.
- Digibird, George
Raiche's website of breathtaking photos and history of a pair of
red-shouldered hawks and their broods nesting at Edgewood over the last few
years.
- Yellow Starthistle
Information, a website with everything you could ever want to know about
this noxious weed, produced by Dr. Joseph DiTomaso from UC Davis.
- Botanical Data, a part
of Berkeley's Digital Library Project. This collection includes thousands of photos of
plants from this area, together with information about distribution and habitat. You
can search by common name, scientific name, color, or location.
- California
Wildflowers, presented by the California Academy of Sciences. This site
allows you to search for flowers by Latin or common name, color, or family.
- Dictionary of
Botanical Epithets contains the derivations of the scientific names of
many plants, some of which are in our area.
- Henry Coe State Park. Their
website maintains information about wildflowers in bloom and a nice
photographic album of the plants and animals at the park.
- MykoWeb, a website devoted to
mycology (the study of fungi), with an excellent section on the fungi of the
SF Bay Area.
- Virtual Parks, Erik Goetze's collection of
strikingly beautiful panoramic photos of some parks in California and Utah, including
Edgewood.
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Emerald Hills Weather Station, providing the weather near Edgewood's
Sunset Gate (contains advertisements).
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