March 3, 2026By Steven Mayer
There’s a glaring 100-mile blind spot in wildlife tracking across California’s most important migration corridor. Now, with two newly installed Motus stations at Dos Rios State Park and Panorama Vista Preserve, that gap has closed significantly, and we will soon gain a better understanding of the wildlife that flies and flutters through our restoration sites. From birds to bats to butterflies, data will be collected from wildlife with Motus tags so we can follow their migratory journeys. River Partners Director of Restoration Emma Havstad spoke with The Bakersfield Californian and explored what we hope to learn from this game-changing technology and how we work on our future restorations in the San Joaquin Valley.
“[Motus] is a network of stations that let you understand the story of that individual organism.”
~ River Partners Director of Restoration Emma Havstad
Read more at The Bakersfield Californian.
Photo courtesy of Kalvin Chan
