![Elfin Saddle fungus found along the American River Parkway](https://jbaxter.irt.csus.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/IMG_0287-470x140.jpg)
If you take a walk along the American River Parkway in the early spring after a rain, you might glimpse one of the Parkway’s more other worldly residents. Generally…
![General Ecology Students Fly High in the Sierra Nevada](https://jbaxter.irt.csus.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/DSC_1073-470x140.jpg)
At over 8,600 feet in elevation near Carson Pass this fall, students in Dr. Baxter’s General Ecology class literally rose to the occasion to learn…
![Trip to vernal pools reveals more than just flowers](https://jbaxter.irt.csus.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/bio160-VP-S15-4-470x140.jpg)
Every spring I take students in my General Ecology class to California’s vernal pools. Vernal pools are one of California’s most unique ecosystems and they…
![General Ecology students take in the high country](https://jbaxter.irt.csus.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bio160-SN-fall-2014-1-470x140.jpg)
An all-day Saturday trip this fall took Dr. Baxter’s General Ecology class from Sacramento State in the Central Valley all the way up to Carson Pass…
![Ecology students climb to the top of the world](https://jbaxter.irt.csus.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Bio-160-SN-spr14-02-470x140.jpg)
When you stand on top of the Sierra Nevada mountains it’s like you’ve been transported to the top of the world. So much so you…