From ants and poppies to warblers, a uniquely Californian inventory of wildlife DNA will help safeguard our ecological future.
In a dark, deep and wet redwood forest, Max Genetti scans a trail in search of slime.California Conservation Genomics Project
Like California’s people, the extended families of its plants and animals are wildly diverse, a mélange of different colors and customs. Some, such as slugs, are separated by distance and a changing climate. Others are fractured by urban development, or have grown estranged over the relentless march of time.
“We protect pretty places,” Shaffer said. “We may not be protecting the most biologically important places.” Genetti aims to sample 150 banana slugs from 70 different places. Once discovered, a slug is stretched out on a board to be measured and photographed. Using a razor blade, Genetti clips off a rice-sized piece of tail. With tweezers, he drops the skin into an alcohol-filled vial, and carries the tissue back to UCSC for freezing and processing in the lab of Professor Russ Corbett-Detig, a principal investigator with the project.
It will also guide protection strategies, said Doug Bell, wildlife program manager of East Bay Regional Park District. Different eagle populations face different pressures, ranging from drought to development, he said. The pair quickly pulled over, grabbed nets and jumped out. Clinging to the edge of the steep hillside, Fisher took a swipe — and caught one.
Patrick Robinson, left, director of the Año Nuevo Reserve, and UC Santa Cruz student Wade Matern take a sample of tissue from the flipper of an elephant seal pup as part of the California Conservation Genomics Project.
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