June 16th, 2009
Thanks to a generous grant from the West Basin Municipal Water District, installation of a native plant nursery is now complete on the Environmental Charter High School (ECHS) campus in Lawndale. ECHS students are growing native plants to be installed at Santa Monica Baykeeper’s Stone Canyon Creek Restoration site on UCLA’s North campus and for their own native plant gardens at the high school. The nursery enclosure is fully equipped with work benches, timed irrigation system, a rain guage to turn the system off when it rains and all the supplies necessary to grow and care for the plants.
To see a video of the new nursery click here echs-nursery
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May 4th, 2009
20 volunteers came out on Saturday, May 2nd to remove invasive vegetation from the bio-swales of the newly installed parking lot at Malibu Lagoon State Park. Bio-swales capture rainwater to remove silt and pollution before it enters the lagoon. The parking lot is designed to capture, treat and infiltrate more than three inches of rain in a 24-hour period. More than three-thousand native plants have been placed in the bio-swales to create habitat and aid in the uptake of stormwater pollution. Thanks to the hard work of our volunteers these native plants will continue to thrive without invasive vegetation crowding their space.
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May 4th, 2009
The students of UCLA Lab School in Westwood are very lucky to have Stone Canyon Creek running through their campus, but in it’s current state the banks are overgrown with invasive and/or exotic vegetation. Santa Monica Baykeeper is very excited to be partnering with UCLA Lab School to return their portion of Stone Canyon Creek back to its former native habitat. Students have recently started to collect water quality data from the creek to help them determine its health where the creek runs through their school.
Over three days last week approximately 120 intermediate students from the school took field trips to Malibu Creek State Park to observe stream conditions, identify benthic macroinvertebrates (the bugs that live on the bottom of the stream), and conduct water chemistry tests for nitrates, chlorine, dissolved oxygen, pH, and turbidity on Malibu and Las Virgenes Creeks. They will use the data collected from this visit to compare with thier results from Stone Canyon Creek to see how they differ. Ultimately, the intermediate students from UCLA Lab School will use what they have learned to help design a restoration project for their school.
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February 13th, 2009
This is a great opportunity to learn how we can all participate in a petroleum-free sustainable existence right here, right now.
If this groundbreaking film does well in Los Angeles, it will be shown across the nation!
Please go see Fuel the film this weekend and pass the word to your friends about the screenings in L.A. over the coming week.
Fuel Showings, February 13 - February 19
Santa Monica:
AMC Loews Broadway 4, 1441 3rd Street Promenade
Fri-Sun: 10:00am, 1:00pm, 4:00pm, 7:00pm, 10:15pm
Mon-Thurs: 1:00pm, 4:00pm, 7:00pm, 10:15pm
Q&A with filmmaker Josh Tickell following the 7:00pm showing on 2/14
Sales hotline: (310) 458-6232
Los Angeles:
Laemmle Sunset 5, 8000 Sunset Blvd.
Daily: 1:20pm, 4:10pm,7:00pm, 9:55pm
Q&A w/ Josh Tickell after all showings Friday!
Sales hotline: (323) 848-3505
Click here to purchase tickets online
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February 10th, 2009
Santa Monica Baykeeper is partnering with LightHawk, a non-profit volunteer-based environmental aviation organization, to conduct aerial surveys and document how both commercial and recreational boaters use our local waters. The collected data will provide important information for the Marine Life Protection Act decision-making process. Santa Monica Baykeeper welcomes RSG (regional stakeholder group) members to join staff conducting aerial surveys of the south coast study region.
This is a great opportunity to see the MLPA study region from a bird’s eye view and increase familiarity with the entire coastline from Point Conception to the US-Mexico border. The surveys are conducted year round with flights scheduled on weekdays, weekends and even holidays in order to capture how boaters use our local waters.
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