Oak restoration

Santa Barbara Permaculture Network sbpcnet at silcom.com
Wed Oct 18 14:09:28 PDT 2000


Oak Regeneration and Restoration in Santa Barbara County: 
A lecture, workshop, and field trip 

Valley Oak in Santa Barbara County: its status and distribution 
Thursday, November 16, 7 p.m., St. Marks-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church, Los
Olivos 

Frank Davis, UCSB Professor in the School of Environmental Science and 
Management, will present his research findings about the long-term trends in 
valley oak populations in the Santa Ynez and Los Alamos valleys. A short
update
on sudden oak death (SOD), which is affecting coast live oak,  tanbark oak,
and
black oak in Northern and Central California, will follow  Dr. Davis'
presentation. 

Techniques for Growing Oaks from Acorns 
Saturday, November 18, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Rain date, Dec. 2. UC Sedgwick Reserve
(For directions, call numbers below.) 

Workshop leaders are Douglas McCreary, Natural Resources Specialist with UC's
Integrated Hardwood Range Management Program, and Claudia Tyler, manager of
the
Santa Barbara County Oak Restoration Program. We will plant acorns at a
restoration site at Sedgwick Reserve using several different planting methods
and tour the oak regeneration studies being conducted there. We conclude
with a
visit to Las Cruzitas Ranch to observe its valley oak restoration project. 

Co-sponsored by: Santa Barbara County Oak Restoration Program, Sedgwick 
Reserve, UC (Cooperative Extension) Integrated Hardwood Range Management 
Program, and Santa Ynez Valley Natural History Society 

For more information please call Claudia Tyler at 455-5711 or John Evarts at
688-0413, or email tyler at lifesci.ucsb.edu 
  

Santa Barbara
Permaculture Network
224 E. Figueroa St, #C
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
805/962-2571
sbpcnet at silcom.com  
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