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2025

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
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!