This is the wetland area in Cache Creek conservatory which is adjacent to the Tending and Gathering Garden. Runoff from the Gordon Slough floods the wetland area and is a habitat to plants and animals native to Northern California. The islands in the wetland are populated with tule, a hardstem bulrush that provides shelter to an array of wildlife.

Tule and Cattail: A Tale of the Marsh Economy and Its Role in Human Health and Wellbeing

  • by Kathy Keatley Garvey

A long-planned UC Davis symposium on “Tule and Cattail: A Tale of the Marsh Economy and Its Role in Human Health and Wellbeing”  aims "to advance the land management aims of local tribal communities and provide a platform to educate about the importance of maintaining wetland biology for climate change, ecological and human health, and vector control,” announced medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo, associate professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. 

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