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CA - Santa Barbara: San Marcos Foothills Native Plant Restoration

Event Details

Date/Time:
Sat, May 07, 2016
09:00AM - 12:00PM
Venue:
San Marcos Foothills
Location:
North of Foothill Road between San Marcos Pass and the San Roque Bridge, Santa Barbara CA 93105
Map address
Registration Period:
03/22/2016-05/06/2016
Contact:
Karen Telleen-Lawton, '78

*Please note this project is on May 7, 2016.

Join fellow alumni in restoring native habitat in the foothills above Santa Barbara. For at least two decades, members of the communities adjacent to the San Marcos Foothills Preserve have worked to save this important natural area from development and create a community open space and nature preserve. Supporters have worked passionately to save rare native bunch grass prairie, burrowing owl and grasshopper sparrow habitat from development. The 200-acre San Marcos Foothills Preserve is the result of years of struggle, hard work and finally, compromise.

Channel Islands Restoration (CIR) will provide leadership, training and supplies. Volunteer tasks will be outdoors: nurturing native plants previously planted by volunteers. We will be removing invasive weeds, giving the natives a chance to survive and thrive.

Work tools will be provided, but if you have gardening gloves and hand tools to lend, they will be useful to our project work.

Water and snacks will be provided. Participants are welcome to bring a bag lunch. At noon, a CIR representative will give us an update on restoration projects in Santa Barbara and on the Channel Islands.

There will be a short hike to reach the project site, so it may not be appropriate for young children. Children ages 10 and older may come with a parent or guardian; solo teens will need a waiver signed by a parent or guardian.

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