Bats! Spooky & Misunderstood by Brandy Pearson | October 2023 Photo Credit: Daniel Neal Bats are often mistaken for swallows, particularly around Big Bear Lake around sunset. The San Bernardino Mountains are actually home to 20 different species of bats, which is a stunning amount of diversity, and most are the size of your hand, about […]
Milkweed and Monarchs by Gina Richmond and Brandy Pearson | Summer 2021 A Monarch caterpillar on its host plant, milkweed.Image by Sara Codair Milkweed (Asclepias) is perhaps best known as being the only plant that the endangered Monarch butterfly uses to lay its eggs and the only plant that Monarch caterpillars (larva) can eat. As
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Ron Esposito has been helping the Arboretum for over 7 years. A graduate from Rim High and a Vietnam veteran who has fought cancer twice and won, he started with repairing fences, and then worked on the switch back that the public was short cutting. He then helped Ellie and Michele pull weeds and Ron
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The spring and fall plant sales were successful. As usual, we sold out of dogwoods at the Spring plant sale and took orders for more of them. If you’ve been to the Arboretum lately, you might have noticed the biggest change that we’ve had staffing the information booth six days a week instead of just on
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