The California Center for Natural History provides free outdoor education throughout the Bay Area. Our mission is to facilitate inquiry into the past, present and future of California's diverse ecosystems; create communities of culturally and experientially diverse naturalists; and illuminate the interdependence between humans and California’s wildlife.

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Stinky Flowers and the Fly Pollinators that Love them
Stinky Flowers and the Fly Pollinators that Love them

Bees get all the love when it comes to pollination, but flies, yes flies are incredibly important pollinators for plants world wide, including California…

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Tilden Fungus Fair 2021
Tilden Fungus Fair 2021

The pandemic stiff armed the Tilden Fungus Fair in to going online this year, which isn’t as bad as it all sounds. Although there wasn’t the opportunity for the general public to come through and examine mushrooms from our local area in person going online made the Fungus Fair available to a lot more people…

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Lake Merritt Beneath the Surface Zoom presentation
Lake Merritt Beneath the Surface Zoom presentation

Video presentation on the organisms that live in Lake Merritt of Oakland, California by Damon Tighe.

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