On three Saturdays in November of 2009, community members and students from schools around the county began a collaborative effort to return the Ojai Creek that meanders through Libbey Park to its natural ecology and functioning state. Students, Coalition members, and the public are now being invited back to participate in the second phase of the project on Saturday, February 20, and the following Saturday, February 27.
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Come Help Reestablish a Functioning Wetland Ecosystem!
Community members have begun a collaborative effort to return the Ojai Creek that meanders through Libbey Park to its natural functioning state, and the public is invited to participate in the third and final volunteer workday. On Saturday, November 21, helpers will gather for an initial training and the subsequent removal of non-native species from the creek. This workday will take place from 9:30 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. Volunteers are asked to meet at the Libbey Park Gazebo in downtown Ojai. Wear sturdy shoes, long-sleeved shirts, and long pants, and bring a lunch if desired and plenty of water. Feel free to bring your own loppers, rakes, or other tools. Some tools will be provided. There is very little poison oak in the park, and what there is will be marked off so that volunteers won’t be exposed. The Watershed Committee of the Ojai Valley Green Coalition, under the leadership of conservation biologist Brian Holly, has already completed a site analysis, habitat assessment, and stream characterization study, and Eagle Scout candidate Vince Khougaz has helped to organize a stream morphology survey.
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Get out your shovels and dance in the rain! That is what Brad Lancaster’s second volume in his trilogy on Rainwater Harvesting will make you want to do. Event flyer is Here.
Join Brad Lancaster on Thursday, August 28, at 7pm, Chaparral Auditorium, as he shares his experiences traveling the world learning about harvesting rainwater---with simple landforms and earthworks---in places like India, Peru, Mexico, Africa and the United States, where impoverished landscapes are turned into oases of life.
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