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A growing number of power plants are home to wild flowers. Fiddleneck are among the wildflowers growing in solar arrays at a 550+ megawatt solar farm in the California Valley.

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Look who's popping out this spring! Our remote, motion detection cameras caught this precious moment with a San Joaquin kit fox pup and adult.

Happy New Year, from Althouse and Meade.

Youth are the future stewards of America’s public lands, and Interior is leading a nationwide movement to inspire millions of young people to play, learn, serve... and work in America’s great outdoors. Check out these 15 inspiring moments of how kids are connecting to nature across the country: http://on.doi.gov/youthstewards See more

A few photos from our holiday party! Who can find the ugliest sweater? :) #holidayparty

Bee fly drinking nectar from chia sage in San Luis Obispo County. #slowild #wildlife #cabotany #botany

This common buckeye butterfly was found north of Shandon, CA. #cawildlife

Let this photo of phacelia, growing on a rocky outcrop in the California Valley, send you off for a great weekend! #californianativeplants #canative #slowild #botany

This rare lily, Calochortus simulans, is native to San Luis Obispo, California. #mariposalily #rareplants #californianativeplants #slonativeplants

This burrowing owl stood, for a photo, outside of its den in Topaz Solar Farm's mitigation lands. #cawildlife #speciesofspecialconcern

This silvery legless lizard (Anniella pulchra pulchra) was caught and released by one of our biologists in Nipomo, CA. #cawildlife #biology #nature

Australia was actually the first country to establish a marine protected area, and it wasn’t the Great Barrier Reef.