Angelo Vision

To protect and study California’s North Coast forest, river, meadow, and chaparral habitats to teach and advance environmental mapping, sensing, and tracing, disciplined natural history observation, field experimentation, and modeling, and apply discoveries towards revealing key processes and relationships needed to forecast the co-evolution of Earth’s natural ecosystems, biota, water cycles, and climate.

Missions

To generate fundamental understanding of the linkages of ecosystems and landscapes in the steep, forested watersheds representative of the region.

To generate high quality long-term data that will attract competing fundamental models of how Nature works.

To provide a test bed for advancing the mapping, sensing and tracing technologies that will drive next-generation environmental research.

To use the Angelo Reserve as a base to explore the entire Eel River ecosystem as a whole, linking Eel watershed outflows to coastal marine environments.

To host meetings, discussions, classes, workshops, and retreats that will facilitate development of new approaches, collaborations and commitments.

To share critical scientific understanding of the natural ecosystem with those whose actions and choices will affect its resilience over the coming decades.