MOSS LANDING, CA - JULY 23: Tom Bentley and Alice Bourget paddle to the Elkhorn Slough in Moss Landing, Calif., on Thursday, July 23, 2020. The protected slough is a 7-mile long tidal salt marsh ...

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 ...

Elevated concentrations of heavy metals have been detected at the Elkhorn Slough Reserve by scientists from San Jose State ...

Otter pups frolicking, pelicans swooping — this 7-mile tidal marsh is a spectacular spot to kayak amid wildlife.

Elkhorn Slough research coordinator Kerstin Wasson sets up a blue carbon monitoring station in the Phase 1 restoration site at Hester Marsh. (Nikk Ogasa — Herald Correspondent) ...

Researchers looking into impacts of fire at Moss Landing lithium battery plant 02:51. Elevated concentrations of heavy metals have been detected at the Elkhorn Slough Reserve by scientists from ...

Elkhorn Slough research coordinator Kerstin Wasson holds up pieces of the white, brittle crust — dead algae — that has grown in high levels at Watsonville’s Elkhorn Slough since the 1970s ...

ELKHORN SLOUGH — Although sea otters are an unofficial mascot of the Monterey Bay area and popular among tourists and locals alike, they are also described by scientists as voracious predators ...

Excessive nutrient levels in Elkhorn Slough cause algal blooms and degrade the habitat for fish and wildlife in many parts of the slough. In the first thorough assessment of the effects of high ...

MOSS LANDING — As Congressman Jimmy Panetta stepped up on the podium at a ceremony last week at Hester Marsh, pelicans glided behind him to a landing near bobbing otters. The flurry of wildli… ...

Elkhorn Slough is a wild refuge for many hundreds of sea mammals, including otters, harbor seals and sea lions… and is visited by more bird species every year than any other place on the west coast.

According to one of the most comprehensive studies of our coastal estuaries and wetlands the Elkhorn Slough has lost nearly 70 percent of its original wetlands. Skip to content.