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Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve

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  • The star bird flanked by a California and a western gull

    A very rare bird lands at COPR

    August 24, 2023
  • Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve

    Nature center replaces former Coal Oil Point office shed

    July 7, 2020
  • snowy plovers

    Saving the Season

    August 15, 2019
  • This hoodwinker sunfish

    Hoodwinked

    February 27, 2019
  • Nature Center

    Nature Center is open to researchers, students, and visitors

    March 1, 2018
  • snowy plover chick

    Restoring a Prize Goleta Valley Habitat

    November 29, 2016
  • Santa Cruz Island

    Living Laboratories

    September 25, 2015
  • Leaked petroleum formed tar balls on the beach that stuck to wildlife and clumped kelp together in piles.

    Refugio oil spill fouls NRS reserve

    May 27, 2015
  • A cleanup crew responding to the Refugio oil spill bags tar found on the beach at UCSB's Coal Oil Point Reserve

    Protecting the Plover

    May 27, 2015
  • Hank Pitcher

    A Brush With Preservation

    September 2, 2014
  • Fire

    A Lesson in Nature’s Restoration

    July 7, 2014
  • Cris Sandoval

    NRS Day at UC Santa Barbara

    February 12, 2013
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