Two science interns sampled fish in Lagunitas and Tomasini Creeks on Monday, adding their findings to the Point Reyes National Seashore’s databases of species in the recently restored Giacomini Wetlands: arrow and tidewater gobies, top smelt, three-spined sticklebacks, bay pipefish, surf perch and an even a sturgeon. Funding has run out for post-restoration monitoring in the wetlands, said program director Leslie Adler-Ivanbrook, so the interns, Annika Rose-Person and Griffin Hill, are providing a useful service (as well as helping manage a group of 12 teenagers participating in a summer adventure program). Ms. Adler-Ivanbrook said she has seen an expansion of habitat in the former dairy ranch, and an uptick in prevalence of the federally threatened red-legged frog and rare Point Reyes bird’s beak, a flowering halophyte.
Science interns Point Reyes National Seashore
