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Potrero Creek Revegetation Project
ORGANIZATION: Mountains Restoration Trust
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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47 people are interested
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Potrero Creek Revegetation Project
Mountains Restoration Trust has received a grant from the Southern California Watershed Recovery Project in order to complete our 24-acre Potrero Creek Revegetation Project.
Join Mountains Restoration Trust to help maintain our restoration site on National Park Service land in Newbury Park. You’ll be helping to maintain the land by removing invasive plants, mulching, and watering. We are working to return this critical habitat back to the oak woodland it once was after years of ranching and farming. The natives you will be maintaining include Coast Live Oak, Valley Oak, Western Sycamore, and supporting vegetation in a riparian flood plain, alongside Potrero Creek.
For more information, email volunteer@mountainstrust.org or call 818-591-1701 x203.
This project made possible with funding from the Earth Island Institute and support from the California Coastal Conservancy, The Wildlife Conservation Board and the Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project.
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About Mountains Restoration Trust
Location:
3815 OLD TOPANGA CANYON RD, CALABASAS, CA 91302, US
Mission Statement
To preserve, protect, and enhance the natural resources of the Santa Monica Mountains for the benefit of the environment and for present and future generations through land acquisition and conservation easements, habitat preservation and restoration, and research and education.
Description
Mountains Restoration Trust (MRT) is a non-profit land trust dedicated to preserving natural land in the Santa Monica Mountains through restoration, education and land acquisition. Founded in 1981, MRT collaborates with the local community and government agencies in an ongoing effort to maintain a cooperative relationship between urbanization and native land.
Restoration projects are top priorities for MRT's stewardship of the Santa Monica Mountains, a range transversing from Griffith Park to Point Mugu in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties, California.
Non-native plant and animal invasion has been occurring in this fragile ecological zone since early explorers arrived with mustard seeds to mark their trails. Non-native grasses, trees, plants and animals have found a similar home far from their lands of origin, and are a threat to native species.
Meeting this challenge requires a holistic management and monitoring program of the mountains soil, streams, organisms and wildlife, as well as the human influences around the perimeter. MRT manages several programs to help the mountains increase their function, vitality and productivity.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Potrero & Briar AvenueNewbury Park, CA 91320
DATE POSTED
May 10, 2017
SKILLS
- Habitat Restoration
- Gardening
- Environmental Education
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Parental consent for minors