Alan Launer News Today

The staff behind the Conservation Program are leading Stanford’s land stewardship efforts to ensure the university’s vast natural landscape and biodiversity can thrive.

A now-inactive drain has existed in Lake Lagunita since its early days and even with a historic amount of rain, University administrators say it won’t be ending its 28-year retirement anytime soon.

Lake Lagunita may contain a host of decaying rodents, parasites, sharp debris, and pathogens, according to ecology experts who echoed the University’s warnings…

Contrary to popular belief, Stanford does not fill Lake Lagunita to recreational levels to protect the steelhead trout population in a nearby creek…