Outdoor Laboratory

A seagull flies over the California Coastal National Monument which stretches along the entire coast of California and extends 12 miles into the Pacific Ocean. The Monument includes 20,000 rocks, islands, pinnacles and reefs.

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Hollister Field Office

The Bureau of Land Management Hollister Field Office is engaged in on-going scientific research involving many different academic fields and many different partners. Learn more about research on the public lands...a great outdoor laboratory; and be sure to visit the Hollister Outdoor Laboratory Archives (HOLA).

View of the Ciervo Hills from one of the dunes in the Monvero Dunes Research Natural Area, photo by M. Westphal BLM

View of the Ciervo Hills from one of the dunes in the Monvero Dunes Research Natural Area

Working in Partnership

Genetics and population research for recovery efforts related to the San Joquin Kit Fox in the Panoche Hills - Fresno and San Benito Counties. Featuring our partner Working Dogs for Conservation:

Genetics research for recovery efforts related to the California Red-legged Frog - Merced, Fresno, San Benito, Monterey, and Santa Cruz Counties. Featuring our partners San Benito Resource Conservation District and Santa Cruz Resource Conservation District:

Habitat restoration for recovery efforts related to the California Tiger Salamander, California Red-legged frog, Contra Costa goldfields, sand gilia and rare maritime chaparral - Monterey County. Featuring our partner Return of the Natives - Watershed Institute at California State University Monterey Bay:

Paleontological excavation and fossil specimen preparation from the V99563 locality in the Ciervo Hills - Fresno County. Featuring our partner Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology:

Paleontological excavation and fossil specimen preparation from the "pipeline mosasaur" locality in the Panoche Hills - Fresno County. Featuring our partners Fresno State University Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Fossil Discovery Center of Madera County California:

In-House Field Office Research

Building and maintaining a Virtual Herbarium

Close-up image of Blunt Nose Leopard Lizard, photo by BLM Genetics and population research for recovery efforts related to the Blunt-nosed Leopard lizard in the Diablo Range - Merced, Fresno, and San Benito Counties.

Dune restoration in the Monvero Dunes Research Natural Area - Fresno County. See images from the restoration project on the Conservation and Land Management Internship web log here: "I used to dream of California, but now I'm living the dream!" , "The Battle for Monvero" , AND "California Daydreamin' "

Dendrochonology study in the San Benito Mountain Research Natural Area - San Benito County.

Detail view of obsidian rock sample, photo by E. Zaborsky BLM Obsidian artifacts studies - Fresno and San Benito Counties.

Valley Fever study with USGS in the Clear Creek Management Area - Fresno County.

Joint Fire Science Program

The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) was created to provide a scientific basis and rationale for implementing fuels management activities.

BLM Hollister Field Office entered into a JFSP project partnership with the National Park Service - Pinnacles National Monument, Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, California State Parks - Santa Cruz District, and University of California, Berkeley. The project is called "Exploring the Traditional Use of Fire in the Coastal Mountains of Central California" (Project ID 10-1-09-3):

"Pinnacles Tests Out Tribe's Fire Tradition" = Article in BayNature December 5, 2011
"SFEI Collaboration with Local Tribe: Reintroducing Native Fire to the Pinnacles" = Article from the San Francisco Estuary Institute December 12, 2011
"Grass is Burned to Study Indian Culture" = Article in San Francisco Chronicle December 12, 2011 **includes several images from the controlled burn

CFSC logo California Fire Science Consortium: "A JFSP KNowldege Exchange Consortium"

Cool Science Links - Soil and Water

Soil Biological Communities web page from the Bureau of Land Management Division of Resource Services.

Water Science for Schools web page from the United States Geological Survey (USGS)

As a sister agency under the Department of the Interior, the USGS is a partner with the BLM for Science in Support of Natural Resource Management.

Rick Cooper, Field Manager
Bureau of Land Management
Hollister Field Office
20 Hamilton Court
Hollister, CA 95023
Phone: (831) 630-5000
Fax: (831) 630-5055
Office Hours: 7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., M-F
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