Vollmar Natural Lands Consulting

Name: Vollmar Natural Lands Consulting
Address: 1720 Solano Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94707, US
Telephone: +15105599603

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We are a California-based natural resources consulting and research company providing expertise on the technical and regulatory aspects of natural resource assessment, impact analysis, mitigation, conservation, restoration, and land stewardship.

05/12/2022

Thank you SERCAL 2022, what a fantastic conference!

08/07/2020

Team VNLC hard at work throughout the East Bay and Sacramento. Hope everyone's staying healthy and making the best of that work from home life!
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In order: Odie, Illy, Scout, Charlie, Taco, Fiona, Tommy, and Borris
# ecology

05/29/2019

Our time in Tanzania is coming to a close. It was an incredibly fruitful trip and experience. We loved reconnecting with old friends at TAWIRI and the national herbarium, as well as making new ones with TPW and the US Forestry Service. Can't wait to be back and work with all the inspiring people here. Asante sana Tanzania!

@ Loibor Serrit, Manyara, Tanzania

04/30/2019

These beefy guys are called Contra Costa goldfields (Lasthenia conjugens). They're are a CNPS 1B.1 (!!) federally listed endangered plant. L. conjugens used to be much more widespread, though still endemic to California meaning they only occur here. They like vernal pools, an already specialized habitat, and even more specific micro- habitats within those pools.
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Generally, L. conjugens are bigger than other Lasthenia, and have a slightly different hue. Of course, we can't use these as distinguishing features, so what we actually look for are partially fused phyllaries (basically the bracts of the sunflower family) along with dissected leaf structures. L. conjugens are the ONLY Lasthenia species with the partially fused phillaries.

04/26/2019

It's been a long week, but we're still goin' strong! These plants and wildlife aren't going to survey themselves 😎
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Pictured: our senior staff walking off site as the sun sets chatting about the day's botanical finds.

04/25/2019

Have you seen all the Butter 'n' Eggs (Triphysaria eriantha) this year‽
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This native Californian flower has been blanketing many of the grassland habitats we've visited. Though common, they're always fun to see.
@ California

04/19/2019

IT'S CTS SEASON Y'ALL 🎉🎉
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CTS stands for California tiger salamander (Ambystoma californiense), a threatened species that will likely become endangered in the foreseeable future. These guys breed in seasonal bodies of water like vernal pools, and spend much of their adult lives underground in burrows built by squirrels in grasslands and low foothills habitat. That's some pretty sensitive habitat that continues to be fragmented and destroyed contributing to their threatened status.
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Photos 1-3: CTS larvae at various stages of development. The fabulous "hair" shown in photo 3 are actually the salamander's gills, which will eventually reduce and disappear as the larvae ages and morphs into their adult form. Also hitching along for the ride are some vernal pool tadpole shrimp (Lepidurus packardi), a prehistoric looking endangered crustacean.
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Photo 4: an adult CTS!!
@ California

04/18/2019

It's ! Botanizing season is in full swing, and our biologists spent the day checking out these beautiful pops of vernal pool blooms.
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Photo 1: a pool full of Lasthenia (goldfields) and Downingia (calicoflowers)
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Photo 2: a close up look under hand lens magnification. This flower is in the sunflower family meaning what is commonly seen as the "flower" is actually made up of a bunch of tiny flowers! To identify this species, we're looking at the little white hairs, also known as the pappus, shown here. Since these tiny ray flowers have a mix of long and short pappus structures, we can confidently identify this as Lasthenia fremontii!
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Photo 2: another close up of two Downingia plants. These two seem like different species at first glance, but the identifying feature here is the horn just below the crevice the two smaller petals make (called a sinus) indicating that both these species are Downingia ornatissima!
Happy botanizing! 🌻
@ California

04/15/2019

We're enjoying our own mini-superbloom here with the rare Amsinckia grandiflora (Large-Flowered Fiddleneck) populations we're reintroducing! These plants love steep, north-facing slopes, and has taken a team of experts and support staff from multiple organizations to make it to this stage. We're pretty excited!
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@ California

04/06/2019

Diving into the weekend like these native Californian amphibians!
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We were amazed to find this adult California tiger salamander (Ambystoma californiense) in a breeding pond as late as March! These guys usually breed in winter.

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1720 Solano Avenue
Berkeley, CA
94707

Telephone

+15105599603

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http://vollmarconsulting.com/

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