Community Habitat Restoration events are great opportunities to meet others from nearby areas, while helping to improve native habitats. We hope you dig in and join us!
Hundreds of people have joined staff and volunteers of SELC to restore San Elijo Lagoon Ecological Reserve this year. Here's how your efforts have benefited wildlife and special places for our community:
April 21: Gateway Park
The first volunteer restoration event at Gateway Park focused on clipping back non-native plants before seed dispersal in late spring. Thirty-seven (37) volunteers gathered 2,000 pounds of invasive plants. These included: chrysanthemum (Glebionis coronaria) and along the Highway 101 berm, volunteers cut all stock (Matthiola incana), Pride of Madeira (Echium candicans), and removed sea rocket (Cakile maritima) and debris. In the West Basin, volunteers removed trash, nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus), radish (Raphanus sativa), and mustards (Hirschfeldia incana).
March 17: Santa Carina
The last winter storm held off until the end of restoration, when volunteers hand-pulled mustards and other annuals, dispersed seeds, and secured 30 new plantings.
February 28: Coastal Strand
Site captains targeted an infestation of the nursery plant, stock (Matthiola incana), as well as other invasives at the edge of the salt marsh.
February 18: Stonebridge
20 community volunteers tended new plantings at the coastal sage scrub restoration site.
January 21: Santa Carina
50 volunteers from Teen Volunteers and San Dieguito Academy braved the rain to weed the newly planted coastal sage scrub site.
