surveying the east end of SDC this weekend

Gentlepeople,

Richard Dale from SEC has arranged for us to have permission to access the otherwise closed east end of the SDC this coming Friday-Sunday. While the fate of much of the SDC lands are already agreed in principle, much of this eastern end could be developed, or not, and with different uses. What we find may therefore make a real difference to the fate of this land, which is critical for connectivity between Sonoma Mountain and the Mayacamas, and includes some lovely oak woodland, wetlands, and riparian areas. This part of the property has been closed to the public because of un-remediated foundations of burned buildings. We have permission to bring up to six adults and two minors onto that closed east end for those three days as long as we stay away from the remains of buildings.

I will spend as much of those three days there as I can get away with, and could desperately use help. We are lucky enough to have many of Sonoma County's most talented and prolific naturalists interested in this project, and I'm confident we will be able to find some hundreds of taxa in the east end this weekend. Please let me know if you can join me out there for any part of the weekend. Even if you can't make it to the field, help IDing will be gratefully received. Thank you!

Best wishes,
Dan

Posted on 01 de maio de 2019, 04:46 PM by dlevitis