LAURA CUNNINGHAM ART EXHIBIT
Ends Feb. 28
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area Visitors Center
401 West Hillcrest Dr., Thousand Oaks
Laura Cunningham, author of the book State of Change:
California's Forgotten Landscapes, is the focus of an exhibit featuring some of
the paintings from her book and photos and sketches depicting the
process she went through to research the images. The exhibit will be on
display from
Jan. 28 through Feb. 28.
SANTA
CLARA RIVER VOLUNTEER WORKDAY FEB. 4TH
The next Friends of the Santa Clara River
Volunteer Workday will be Saturday February
4th at The Nature Conservancy's Peto
property.
Meet
at 8:00 for birding and 9:00 for a weed war.
Take Hwy 126 east through Santa Paula to the
stop light
at Hallock Drive & turn right.
Go to the end of Hallock & park.
Long pants and closed-toed shoes are
required.
Contact Sandy Hedrick for more information:
340-0478.
Supervisors
tentatively approve first phases of Newhall Ranch
Final battle to save the river looms
While many homeowners continue to struggle with falling home prices and
under water loans, and commercial vacancy rates in the SCV are at an all
time high, the County’s answer to the problem was to approve an additional
5,500 additional housing units and 2.5 million more square feet of new
commercial space. These first two phases of the Newhall Ranch project
obtained tentative approval this month in spite of the approximately 10,000
existing approved but unbuilt units already in Santa Clarita.
Sited along the Santa Clara River west of the I-5 freeway in one of the most
sensitive wildlife areas in Southern California, these projects received
intense opposition from SCOPE and other environmental groups as well as
members of the community. Downstream farmers and property owners expressed
concerns about chloride pollution and flooding. Unanswered questions remain
regarding the recent water supply well closure and possible spread of the
ammonium perchlorate pollution plume.
SCOPE (Santa Clarita Organization for Planning the Environment) will
not give up the fight to save the Santa Clara from this massive
auto-oriented suburban sprawl project. The last free-flowing river in Los
Angeles County should not be channelized. And the County should provide
housing options that do not contribute to increased air pollution and
greenhouse gases.
SCOPE will not give up, but needs your help.
Please make a donation.
www.scope.org
Cal-IPC's
2012
Wildland
Weed Field
Courses and
Habitat
Restoration
Workdays!
Our upcoming
field
courses and
habitat
restoration
workdays
trains
natural
resource
managers and
restoration
volunteers
on all
aspects of
invasive
weed
management.
Registration
and course
details at
www.cal-ipc.org/fieldcourses/index.php.
Idyllwild -
June
5-7
James San Jacinto Mountains
UC Natural Reserve
Tuesday, June 5 -
Strategic Approaches to
Invasive Plant Management
Wednesday, June 6 -
Invasive Plant Biology &
Identification
Thursday, June 7 -
Invasive Plant Control
Methods
Registration Fees:
Non-members: $175 per field course, this fee includes a 2011 Cal-IPC Membership
Restoration Volunteers: $55 per field course
In 2012 Cal-IPC is able to offer a special discounted rate for restoration volunteers! You qualify as a restoration volunteer if weed management is not part of your professional work and you volunteer for an organized restoration effort.
Click here to register for field courses now.
THEODORE PAYNE FOUNDATION CLASSES
To register for classes, call (818) 768-1802 during business hours. Visit TPF's online calendar for details on these and other classes and events at www.theodorepayne.org
An important advance in systematics of
California plants:
The Jepson eFlora is now on line.
See http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/IJM.html
The eFlora includes all of the taxonomic treatments of the print Manual and has in addition treatments for taxa that were excluded from the print Manual because of doubts about naturalization status. Interactive distribution maps linked to specimen data from the Consortium of California Herbaria are included. Words that were abbreviated to save space in the print Manual have been expanded. Keys are linked to the treatments to which they refer. Accepted names and synonyms can be searched for. The eFlora is linked to the Jepson Online Interchange, and from there to numerous electronic tools.
The Jepson Herbarium will work with the treatment authors and users to keep the eFlora in sync with advances in California botanical knowledge.
ECOVISIONS YOUTUBE
INVASIVE PLANT VIDEOS
Ecovisions has produced a series of YouTube videos about invasive plants, specifically English ivy, brooms, yellow starthistle, pampas grass and more. Find them at http://www.ecovisions.org/video.html.
