The Explorer Newsletter

The Edgewood Explorer is our quarterly newsletter full of information about upcoming events, in-depth articles on park restoration and preservation efforts, and details on various Friends of Edgewood programs.

In Our Latest Issue

The December 2020 issue leads off with a wrap-up of the first season at Edgewood Farms, where goldfields has been a great success and organza party favor bags are part of the California poppy strategy. Other highlights of the issue:

• Introducing this year’s Edgewood Best Friend, Howie Smith, and Habitat Hero, Caroline Bowker.
• Social trails have proliferated in Edgewood during the pandemic, prompting an ad hoc team to strategize how to remedy the damage and prevent the creation of more.
• Edgewood’s official flowering plant list has been reviewed, revised and put online.
• Once on the brink of extinction, San Mateo thornmint has taken hold at both Edgewood and Pulgas Ridge.
• From the park’s 27 nest boxes this spring came 69 baby birds — and all 47 of the hatched western bluebirds became fledglings.
• The latest stars of the camera traps: a young female mountain lion and her cub.