Fall Migration of Waterfowl to Bolsa Chica by Babs Levitan It’s Fall at the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve (BCER) and migrating water fowl are arriving daily after flying as many as 2,900 miles from nesting grounds that are as far away as the Arctic. Some species of water fowl travel in large flocks and others…
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This Saturday will be a special day for the Sierra Club and the Bolsa Chica Land Trust. The Angeles Chapter Inspiring Connections Outdoors (ICO) branch of Sierra Club will be bringing a few schools to work at Bolsa Chica for the last planting day of the season. Paramount High School, Paramount High School- West Campus,…
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January has been a busy month for us here at the Bolsa Chica Land Trust. Hence, I am combining the two Stewards volunteer work days we had this month into one post. Sunday, Jan. 3rd: Last year I noticed that a sneaky perennial non-native plant had started to really spread out and choke out the…
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One group that comes out to Bolsa Chica a few times a year is the Paramount High School Green Club. Students have to attend meetings and recycle on campus in order to earn a spot on the bus for the Saturday trip. They must monitor one recycling bin on campus weekly and participate in sorting/crushing…
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The Bolsa Chica Stewards were joined by 92 members of the Paramount High School Green Club and Huntington Park High School’s AVID program for the kickoff to the planting season. We planted 225 native grasses on the mesa, a hundred yards past the first bench. We tried a new method this time, soaking the empty…
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Saturday’s work day wasn’t anything new (we watered the native grasses and tar plants), but we had a wonderful group of high school students who volunteered. The Fountain Valley KIWIN’S club members were an eager and hard working group who really got down to business. We had ordered the water truck with 2,000 gallons of water…
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Last Saturday we had our “Earth Day” Stewards work day. Earth Day this year is April 22nd and the closest work day we had was the 18th. We don’t make a big deal about it because to us every habitat restoration work day is a mini Earth Day. Good thing we didn’t make a fuss…
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Last Saturday we had Ms. Boardman’s Biology class from Cerritos College join the Stewards for weed picking and native plant planting. They did a great job considering the weeding was more difficult than usual. The native grasses we had planted back at the end of 2014 had been overtaken by the non-native grasses (mostly Hordeum…
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Last Saturday the 15th we had a rather large group of volunteers out to help restore the Mesa. We had Cerritos college students, Paramount High School students from the Environmental Club and JROTC, and even the Sierra Club in Orange County came out. Thankfully, a lot of the core Stewards were there to help me…
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It was a glorious day on Sunday after the rain the day before. The sky was filled with big puffy white clouds and the sky was such a crystal clear blue that you could see Catalina Island off the coast. It didn’t rain very much and only the very top of the soil was damp, but…
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