This last Friday the 13th was not an unlucky day for the terraces of Cieneguitas Creek. A small but hard working group of us met along the creek in the San Marcos Foothills Preserve and under the guidance of Jonathan Applebaum of Channel Islands Restoration we planted at least 86 1 gallon native plants. These included Wild Four O’clock, California Sunflower, Wild Bitter Gooseberry, Purple Sage, Hummingbird Sage, Giant Rye Grass, and Lemonade Berry. It was fun to see how everybody gravitated towards certain plants as their favorites. We also pulled a lot of weeds along the way. Our number one least favorite invasive weed had to be Castor Bean. Yuck! Enjoy the slide show.
Santa Cruz Island Trip
About 60 of us went to Santa Cruz Island, Scorpion Bay with Channel Islands Restoration on Friday May 6th. We saw incredible pods of Humpback whales on our trip to and from the island. Once on the island we took a short hike and then got to work. We pulled invasive weeds from a restoration site along the creek mouth near the visitors' center at Scorpion Bay. We filled 30 bags with weeds in no time flat. One of the best comments overheard from a student was a request to come back for two months to do nothing but weeding each day. That might be able to be arranged! Enjoy the slide show.
Macroinvertebrates at HBP
We had a great visit from Dr. Michael Caterino, Curator of Entomology at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History last week. We spent some time in the creek looking for cool insects and found a ton of diversity. It looks really healthy based on what we saw. Check out the photos in this slide show to see what we found. Beware of the Toe-biters!
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