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2024

10/24 RAINBOW CANYON KICKOFF 
by Tatianna Velicer 

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

7/08 DISTURBANCE
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

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
Visit 7/09/24
San Francisco TEST PLOT/ June 2024
TERREMOTO SF


TIME: 4:12 pm
DATE: June 12, 2024
TEMP: 66 degrees
WEATHER: warm and windy. a few clouds
WIND (SPEED/DIRECTION): 12.3 mph wind from the SW
SOIL MOISTURE: dry :/
PLANTS SIGHTINGS: new buckwheat on the hill
WEED SIGHTINGS: lots of mustard it looks like?
WILDFLIFE SIGHTINGS: not much this week
HUMAN ACTIVITY: just me
GENERAL NOTES: dry and tawny, exciting to see new growth pop up

TR 


South Hill Plot



Pine Plot




Bluff



Buckwheat


Visit 5/22/24
San Francisco TEST PLOT/ May 2024
TERREMOTO SF



ER + SS

South Hill Plot


Desert Parsley in the DeHaro Street area of Starr KingSome kind of Clarkia, seen throughout Starr King















Visit 5/17/24
San Francisco TEST PLOT/ May 2024
TERREMOTO SF


TIME: 11:30 am
DATE: May 17, 2024
TEMP: 58 degrees 
WEATHER: feels much warmer than it is
WIND (SPEED/DIRECTION): 6.1 mph wind from the NE
SOIL MOISTURE: drydrydry
PLANTS SIGHTINGS: usual suspects and some new calochortus which is exciting
WEED SIGHTINGS: lots of vetch and mallow per usual. Do we keep noting Vetch as a weed?
WILDFLIFE SIGHTINGS: bees and a coyote
HUMAN ACTIVITY: just Alain and I
GENERAL NOTES: dry and tawny, exciting to see new growth pop up

TR + AP

South Hill Plot

North Pine Plot 

East Bluff Plot

CALOCHORTUS

coyote friend with red eyes? we escaped unscathed


big ol mallow

Visit 4/19/24
San Francisco TEST PLOT/ April 2024
TERREMOTO SF


TIME: 4:30pm
DATE: May 8, 2024
TEMP: 77 degrees 
WEATHER: humid heat, but not a cloud in the sky
WIND (SPEED/DIRECTION): breeze coming from NW, it is welcomed
SOIL MOISTURE: dry!
PLANTS SIGHTINGS: a couple of new lupine, dot plantain, poppies, artemisia californica, sticky monkey flower
WEED SIGHTINGS: all of the ones we’ve been seeing, plus dandelion
WILDFLIFE SIGHTINGS: scrub jays, bees on the clover, evidence of gophers from their holes, yellow swallowtail butterfly
HUMAN ACTIVITY: mainly the sounds of kids in the school yard, no one has passed through the annex except me
GENERAL NOTES: it is so dry all of a sudden! vetch appears to be making a come back in the east bluff plot after we gave the grasses a haircut last week. weeds have reappeared in the south hill plot. TALL grasses in the north pine plot. everything is tawny except for the vetch and the natives. it feels like summer already.

EF

South Hill Plot

North Pine Plot 

East Bluff Plot


gopher holes

coyotes???


LUPINUS SUCCULENTUS!


Visit 4/25/24
San Francisco TEST PLOT/ April 2024
TERREMOTO SF




South Hill Plot

North Pine Plot 


East Bluff Plot





From top left: Unidentified brome, a representative tangle, birds-eye gilia, is it a calochortus? (north pine plot), soaproot and buckwheat near south hill plot, lupine sp in south hill plot, bombus on a radish, dot seed plantain in north pine plot