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 [...]
