Dipper Ranch

Goodnight Mindego Hill. Goodnight land of San Francisco gartersnakes. Goodnight slowly diminishing hillsides of purple starthistle.   Th...

Bringing the outside inside. Ok, office moved. Attitude shifted. Now I'm ready to start my third decade of land conservation.

Impalement - another hazard of thistles. I found this honey bee speared on a yellow starthistle spine while weeding in August 2009. Hoor...

Here are the answers to the seedling photos posted during the week. --- California poppy seedling --- --- Finely-divided mature leaves and ...

Mowing is a strategy to stop a large stand of thistles from producing viable seed. It requires good timing and usually needs to be repeated...

--- Thistle seedlings germinating in a group. A seedhead probably fell here in a previous year. --- Now is the time to control thistle seed...