This is the project site for the Desert version of the Grinnell Resurvey Project.
“At this point I wish to emphasize what I believe will ultimately prove to be the greatest value of our museum. This value will not, however, be realized until the lapse of many years, possibly a century, assuming that our material is safely preserved. And this is that the student of the future will have access to the original record of faunal conditions in California and the west, wherever we now work.”
Joseph Grinnell, 1910 “The Uses and Methods of a Research Museum” Popular Science Monthly
We are now working in the desert!
Continue to the public website here or find information on specific resurvey areas here with your password.