The NRDB is a compilation of observations of flora and fauna made at open space and nature preserves in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. The database can be searched for available data on flora, mammals, birds, and reptiles-amphibians-fishes seen at one or more preserves.

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NRDB Release of March, 2008
Statistics Species: 3,815; Preserves: 213; Sightings: 69,481.
Coal Mine Ridge
Town of Portola Valley
New Preserves

There are 4 new parks/preserves in this release.

1.   Hood Mountain RP & OSP (Sonoma County Regional Park and Open Space Preserve) (flora)
2.   Easter Bowl (Redwood City Land) (flora)
3.   Garrett Park (Redwood City Park) (flora)
4.   Stulsaft Park (Redwood City Park) (flora)
Significant New Observational Data

We have added new information to the Preserves table about recent changes to species lists. This information is Last Update. You can see when the last changes were made to species lists for each preserve by selecting Preserves under the Reports tab on our home page at www.nrdb.org. You can quickly determine if your existing checklist is out of date! There have been incremental changes to observational data for a large number of preserves. To help you out, here are the major changes. Check Last Update for other preserves to see if they have had changes as well.

1.   Golden Gate NRA (flora)
2.   Thornewood OSP (flora, birds)
3.   Los Trancos OSP (flora)
4.   Wunderlich CP (flora)
5.   Pearson - Arastradero Preserve (flora)
6.   Rancho Canada del Oro OSP (flora, birds)
7.   Flood CP (flora)
8.   Long Ridge OSP (flora)
9.   Portola Redwoods SP (flora)
10.   Almaden Quicksilver CP (birds)
11.   Coal Mine Ridge OS (flora)
12.   Montara Mountain (flora)
13.   Fitzgerald Marine Reserve (birds, flora, mammals, RAFs)
14.   McClellan Ranch Park (flora)
15.   Stevens Creek CP (flora)
Don't Forget Checklist Search and Spreadsheet View

Checklist Search provides a simple and fast way to generate a pre-formatted checklist suitable for printing. Checklist Search is the first selection under the Searches menu. Use Advanced Search to generate checklists with custom formatting or contents.

All search results (except Checklist Search results) now include a button to view the search results as a spreadsheet using Microsoft Excel.