...Sagehen Courses & Outreach...
...Education
Facility at Sagehen...
View our calendar to read abstracts of ongoing & upcoming research & education projects
at Sagehen.
Day and overnight use of the resource and facilities are permitted.
To visit Sagehen, each group, project, or use must:
- Complete an on-line use-application; once application is approved by Station
Manager...
- Read this
information prior to arrival. Questions? Try this page.
- Agree
to, complete, and sign a waiver
form for each visitor (Spanish version available, too).
- Deliver
signed waivers to Station Manager prior to or upon arrival.
Station
facilities are available year round. Winter programs present more of an access
challenge as the two miles of road from Hwy 89 to the station are sometimes not plowed in
winter. CalTrans plows parking areas just off of Hwy 89 and snowmobiles, skis
and other forms of snow travel equipment are used to access the station.
Winter
lodging capacity is reduced to about 25 persons, with significantly higher day-use
capacity. Facility use is scheduled
on a space available basis. Current use includes UC & other college courses,
agency group training, seminars, retreats and K-12 classes.
A variety of field and laboratory equipment is available,
including extensive environmental monitoring sites throughout
the basin.
Additional on-site educational
aids include:
- Line electricity
- T-1
internet service
- Computer & GIS lab (10-PCs, 1-Mac. printers, plotter, scanner)
- TV, VCR, sound system, screens, white boards
- Projectors (LCD,
slides, overhead)
- Classrooms (2 indoor, 1 outdoor)
- Dedicated
K-12 Campus
- Fish observation facility
- On-site
field researchers for periodic student interaction
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...See
 Map and directions (286K). 11-30-02
Information Sheet (323K). 5-20-03and/or our Facilities page for more details.
The Sagehen Creek Field Station
Manager is also the point of contact for educators seeking information regarding
these other reserves of the Central Sierra
Field Research Stations group: Chickering
American River Reserve, North Fork Associated Lands & Onion Creek Experimental
Forest.
Sagehen's Education Tools...
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- Risk - Challenge Summer Literacy outreach program. |
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We've added a Wiki for working with local teachers to share resources, like web-based technology to communicate their projects.
Take a look & add your thoughts [get password from Station Managers]. |
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Sagehen teaching collections include birds, mammals, insects, botany, wet.
Sagehen Basin Biological Inventories. If you are trying to ID plants and animals in the Sagehen basin, you can help yourself narrow the possibilities down by using our biological inventories that list everything that lives in the basin (well, everything we know about, anyway).
Other useful ID tools include:
Sagehen Photo Collection. A library of images of environmental science, free for education use.
Popular press & research publications. |
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| Multi-media: news blog, science blog, podcast, videos, fish-cam. |
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Wildfires affect communities around the world. This online toolkit provides interactive, science-based tools to help homeowners, decision-makers, and researchers better understand where wildfires occur and how to protect homes and neighborhoods, as well as get up-to-the-minute wildfire news. |
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Sagehen is a partner in the Highway 89 Stewardship Team. This toolkit can be used to creatively solve challenges associated with highways. |
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