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2025

3/31 SPRING UNDER THE EUCALYPTUS (2 YRS)
by Jen Toy

3/30 A NEW YEAR AT STARR KING
by Théa Ryan

2/27 BURN SCAR SEEDLINGS
by Hannah Pae 


2024

11/21 STARR KING TEST PLOT PHASE 2 BEGINS
by Elena Fox

10/24 RAINBOW CANYON KICKOFF 
by Tatianna Velicer 

10/22 GREEN RAVINE  @ CATALINA ISLAND TURNS 1!
by Alex Robinson

7/14 JULY AT THE BURN SCAR
by Hannah Pae

7/08 DISTURBANCE, ELYSIAN
by Jenny Jones

6/20 SUMMER SOLSTICE CHECK-IN
by Anthony Martin

6/08 BALDWIN HILLS TURNS 3!
 by Jen Toy

6/07 DEBS FIRST FRIDAYS
by Cody Porter

5/25  EUCALYPTUS UNDERSTORY 
1 YEAR EVALUATION
 by Jen Toy

5/17 MAY AT THE BURN SCAR
by Hannah Pae

1/15 EUCALYPTUS 2nd PLANTING
 by Jen Toy


2023

11/13 UNDER THE EUCALYPTUS
by Victoria Bevington

11/06 STARR KING INTRO
by Terremoto SF

10/16 WATCHING WEATHER
Q&A with Joey Farewell

9/18 CATALINA SOIL TEST #1
Q&A with Alia Harris and Emersyn Klick

7/10 DEBS FIELD SKETCHES
by Hannah Pae

6/08 IT’S RAINING OAKS 
by Joey Farewell

5/25 SECRET SUPERBLOOM
by Jenny Jones

3/29 RAINBOW RIVER
by Dani Vonlehe, Jenny Jones, Dante Inguinez

3/23 VERTICAL MULCH
by Nina Weithorn

3/10 SPRING AT DEBS
by Adrian Tenney

3/07 WHAT’S IN BLOOM AT BALDWIN
by Arely Media Perez

2/15 USC NEW PLANTS
by Nina Weithorn

VALENTINE’S DAY AT RIO
by Daniela Velazco

1/30 ELEPHANT HILL RAINS
by Joey Farewell

2022

FIELD DRAWINGS FROM SAN BRUNO MOUNTAIN
by Lian Mae Tualla, Tera Johnson

10/22 RIO FIELD NOTES
by Daniela Velazco

STARTING THE USC CAMPUS PLOTS
by Alex Robinson

10/13 ELYSIAN AFTER 3 YEARS
 Q&A with Jenny Jones

10/06 RIO AFTER 2 YEARS
Q&A with Jen Toy

2021

STARTING BALDWIN HILLS
by Daniela Velazco


MEET THE SUPER STEWARDS
All interviews by Daniela Velazco + Hannah Flynn

TANIA ROMERO

DANTE INIGUEZ + ANTHONY MARTIN

LUIS RINCON



PORTAL * INTERNAL USE
JULY AT THE BURN SCAR
Burn Scar Test Plot 
By Hannah Pae
Terremoto
TIME: 8:00-11:30am
DATE:  July 14, 2024
TEMP: 70-76 deg
WEATHER: partly cloudy
WIND (SPEED/DIRECTION): 3 mph / north
SOIL MOISTURE: dry
PLANTS SIGHTINGS:
-Some CA poppy
-A few late blooming clarkia! 
-American Bird’s Foot Trefoil (Acmispon americanus) + Clustered Tarweed (Deinandra fasciculata) are blooming through the dried out clarkia stalks
WEED SIGHTINGS: Pokeweed and a few small black mustard




acmispon - deerweed last ca poppy
black mustard clulstered tarweed
euc leaf beetles1 euc leaf beetles
crows dead wood
hole1 hole2
hole3 pokeweed
last clarkia spent clarkia seed pods
trashline orbweaver1 trashline orbweaver2
watering western fence lizard