MOSS LANDING – The restoration of Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve will get an infusion of new funding to support the initiative from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

ELKHORN SLOUGH — Although sea otters are an unofficial mascot of the Monterey Bay area and popular among tourists and locals alike, they are also described by scientists as voracious predators ...

"We are here to bring back oysters to Elkhorn Slough where they have lived for millennia," explained Dr. Kerstin Wasson, who heads up the pioneering restoration project at the slough and works for ...

Elkhorn Slough research coordinator Kerstin Wasson sets up a blue carbon monitoring station in the Phase 1 restoration site at Hester Marsh. (Nikk Ogasa — Herald Correspondent) ...

Elkhorn Slough provides in Moss Landing provides one of the places on the Central Coast to explore King Tides.California Department of Fish and Wildlife guides provide walking tours of the estuary ...

According to one of the most comprehensive studies of our coastal estuaries and wetlands the Elkhorn Slough has lost nearly 70 percent of its original wetlands. Skip to content.

Elkhorn Slough research coordinator Kerstin Wasson holds up pieces of the white, brittle crust — dead algae — that has grown in high levels at Watsonville’s Elkhorn Slough since the 1970s ...

WATSONVILLE – As scientist Kerstin Wasson trudges along the banks of Elkhorn Slough, her rubber boots crunch through a white, brittle crust of dead algae that encircles nearly the entire shoreline.

Elkhorn Slough, 1700 Elkhorn Road, Watsonville, CA 95076, (831) 728-2822; www.elkhornslough.org. The slough is 19 miles north of Monterey. From California 1, take the Moss Landing exit. Turn east ...

MOSS LANDING — As Congressman Jimmy Panetta stepped up on the podium at a ceremony last week at Hester Marsh, pelicans glided behind him to a landing near bobbing otters. The flurry of wildli… ...

Excessive nutrient levels in Elkhorn Slough cause algal blooms and degrade the habitat for fish and wildlife in many parts of the slough. In the first thorough assessment of the effects of high ...

Elkhorn Slough is a wild refuge for many hundreds of sea mammals, including otters, harbor seals and sea lions… and is visited by more bird species every year than any other place on the west coast.