CA Biodiversity Day 2024
CA Biodiversity Day is September 7th, 2024!!
When is CA Biodiversity Day? September 7th is California Biodiversity Day. The 2024 California Biodiversity Week is celebrated from Saturday September 7th to Sunday September 15th!
What is CA Biodiversity Day? A celebration that inspires discovery and connection to the nature of California while encouraging actions to steward and protect it.
Why participate? California is a global “biodiversity hotspot” with diverse landscapes, seascapes, and the freshwater systems. More plants and animals find California home than any other state, and many are found nowhere else on the planet. At the same time, this biodiversity is severely threatened with extinction. Celebrating California biodiversity for California Biodiversity Day brings awareness to the incredible nature of California while encouraging actions to protect and steward it.
Learn how Bolsa Chica Land Trust is Building Biodiversity from the Ground Up at our Native Plant Growing Space.
We will take you through soil health, seed processing, habitat evaluation and seeing the big picture of habitat restoration with presentations and hands-on activities. Also learn about community science and how you can be involved at a level you feel comfortable with. Walk away with knowledge and a snazzy mini journal to record your observations or keep track of your daily routine.
Saturday Sept. 7, 2024 10:00am – 1:00pm
Our event will include the following displays and presentations:
The Seeds of Biodiversity – Learn how we collect and process seeds to get them ready for planting, plant some seeds yourself and take a few home to put some native color in your yard.
Biodiversity in the Dirt – Learn how soil is more than just dirt at Bolsa Chica. The land at Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve has been through a lot over the past 150 years and the soil has been degraded. What makes healthy soil and who is helping restore Bolsa Chica’s soil so that it can support native habitat.
A Study of Biodiversity, a Snapshot – Learn how scientists keep track of biodiversity by using transects. Then try it out yourself using a meter square frame to observe plants, animals or signs of animals and decide if you are looking at a healthy native habitat.
Noticing Biodiversity, The Big Picture – Learn about community science and how you can help scientists around the world study and track plants and animals by using iNaturalist. Then join in supporting the California 30×30 project by observing 30 different species of plants, animals, insects and fungi.
Event Location:
Bolsa Chica Land Trust’s Growing Space (native plant nursery)
at the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Hutington Beach, California
Free parking in the North Parking Lot
Directions to the North Lot
Address of North Parking Lot:
3842 Warner Ave
Huntington Beach, CA 92649
Directions to Growing Space:
- Park in the North Parking Lot for free
- Walk across the metal bridge to the Bolsa Chica Mesa Trail
- Walk South along the trail until you reach the gate entrance to the Growing Space
- The Growing Space will be on your left on the other side of the fence
