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NRS News and Highlights
- The UC Natural Reserve System will launch a major update to RAMS, the online tool used to facilitate reserve visits, in early February 2025.
- Researchers based at the UCNRS's Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory gain valuable environmental knowledge by studying greater sage-grouse and their eastern California habitat.
- Fish biologist Phil Pister was instrumental in the conservation of desert fishes native to eastern California.
- Mountain yellow-legged frogs reintroduced to Yosemite lakes show some resistance to the fungus that has devastated amphibians worldwide.
- Gift of land and a stewardship endowment to UC Santa Cruz will establish the Strathearn Ranch Reserve as part of the UC Natural Reserve System.