Earth Day Events In honor of Earth Day, the Riverside Chapter attended two events in southern California. First, Oli Bachie and I set up a booth at the Western Municipal Water District Earth Night in Riverside, and then I also attended Long Beach’s Earth Day Celebration. We met a lot of nice folks interested in responsible landscaping at [...]
Santa Rosa Plateau Bull Thistle Weeding Day The Cal-IPC Student Chapter spent a day weeding bull thistle (Cirsium vulgare) on the reserve. Heather, Mike, Sarah, Matt, Jason, and Kai worked on a warm spring morning to clear a half acre of thistle from a previous pecan grove. Seedlings will need to be removed in a subsequent weeding day. Moist soils have stimulated [...]
Santa Rosa Plateau Grassland Experiment So far so good. Our herbicide treatment plots are showing differences and we are excited by the findings. Here you can see some visual differences in the two treatments. Sara Jo and Kai quantified Erodium cover but left the native cover to grow another week or two. Next time out will be gratifying. It will [...]
Santa Rosa Plateau Grassland Experiment In January Heather, Sara Jo, Lynn, and Kai set up test plots within a burned perennial grassland (Nassella pulchra) community at Santa Rosa Plateau in order to test the effectiveness of a grass-specific herbicide on Erodium control. The study will measure Erodium control and and the native response to both a single burn and/or herbicide [...]
Family Science Night at San Manuel Kai and I went out to the San Manuel Reservation for their Family Science Night, sponsored by the Copernicus Project (UC Riverside). We met lots of kids, teachers and other educators and showed off our “Which Plant is Native?” game. The community center was beautiful. Thanks to the organizers for inviting us!
