Tularcitos School Visit

Busy day, May 12! Andrew Rush and Jessica Shade from the UC Berkeley GK-12 program, and Third Grade Teacher Phyllis Conlan (Thorngate) brought about 25 kids out, with many parents. We had a grand morning; they met Caitlin Stern and learned about western bluebirds, held a king snake, studied oak leaves and compared them from dry and wet parts of a tree, and looked at the web of life in an oak tree. They had lunch, and one of the students was a Linsdale! Yes- Nicola (Linsdale) Beucke was here with her husband Don. Nicola brought some historic photos and we shared stories about the previous (first) research zoologist here, Jean Linsdale. Jean's son Don (Nicola's father) went on to become the curator of natural history at the Oakland Museum. Great to see the kids, teachers, parents and get the historic connection.