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 ...

Elkhorn Slough is one of the last coastal wetlands in California and one of 27 estuaries in the National Estuarine Research Reserve System, set up to study and protect estuaries and coastal ...

Researchers work to restore salt marsh along Monterey Bay 03:29. California's valuable remaining salt marshes are disappearing. Climate change, with its melting glaciers and warming seas ...

Elkhorn Slough is a special place. Snaking 7 miles inland from Moss Landing, ... California sea otters recently made headlines for their work revitalizing kelp forests off the Central Coast.

MOSS LANDING>> The Elkhorn Slough is booming with baby sea otters, which is a good thing for the ecosystem and the animals, scientists say. The estuary is home to 12 otter pups of varying ages ...

Elkhorn Slough contains California’s largest tidal salt marsh south of San Francisco. The slough is important habitat for many significant marine and terrestrial plants and animals native to ...

Elkhorn Slough is one of the last remaining coastal wetlands in California. This tidal estuary is also the second largest in the state, out-sized only by the less accessible San Francisco Bay.

Quick: Can you name the second-largest tidal saltwater marsh system outside of San Francisco Bay? Neither could I, until I pulled off of Highway 1 on a whim one lazy afternoon on my way home from ...

Elevated concentrations of heavy metals have been detected at the Elkhorn Slough Reserve by scientists following a recent fire at Vistra Moss Landing Power Plant and Energy Storage Facility.

The first male sea otter arrived in the Elkhorn Slough, 35 miles north of Bixby Cove, in the late 1990s. Only in the early 2000s did females arrive, and soon thereafter pups, said Wasson.

The $2.2 million in funding comes from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law with funding leveraged by the Inflation Reduction Act. It aims to bring back species across an entire coastal landscape ...

Elevated concentrations of heavy metals have been detected at the Elkhorn Slough Reserve by scientists following a recent ...