Elkhorn Slough provides in Moss Landing provides one of the places on the Central Coast to explore King Tides.

WATSONVILLE – As scientist Kerstin Wasson trudges along the banks of Elkhorn Slough, her rubber boots crunch through a white, brittle crust of dead algae that encircles nearly the entire ...

NOAA approves $2.2M to restore Elkhorn Slough New funding and partnerships will bring back lost coastal habitats Elkhorn Slough contains California’s largest tidal salt marsh south of San Francisco.

To watch a video of Kerstin Wasson, a wetlands biologist with the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, explaining the Hester Marsh restoration visit MOSS LANDING — Just a short… ...

NOAA approves $2.2M to restore Elkhorn Slough New funding and partnerships will bring back lost coastal habitats Elkhorn Slough contains California’s largest tidal salt marsh south of San Francisco.

According to one of the most comprehensive studies of our coastal estuaries and wetlands the Elkhorn Slough has lost nearly 70 percent of its original wetlands ...

A recent study was published in the scientific journal Biological Invasions, detailing that otters at the Elkhorn Slough are keeping populations of globally invasive green crab at bay.

A new study documents the effects of high nutrient levels in Elkhorn Slough, especially where water control structures limit tidal exchange.

Elkhorn Slough has remained relatively undisturbed while other coastal wetlands are rapidly disappearing, which accounts for the concentration of endangered species here.

Elkhorn Slough, 1700 Elkhorn Road, Watsonville, CA 95076, (831) 728-2822; www.elkhornslough.org. The slough is 19 miles north of Monterey. From California 1, take the Moss Landing exit. Turn east ...

The name Elkhorn Slough is derived from the native tule elk that once inhabited the region. Paddling on, I wove my way through a gauntlet of slap-happy seals smacking their tails on the water’s ...

Elkhorn Slough research coordinator Kerstin Wasson holds up pieces of the white, brittle crust — dead algae — that has grown in high levels at Watsonville’s Elkhorn Slough since the 1970s ...