Since March 2018, TreePeople has been restoring a fire-damaged area of San Francisquito Canyon in the Angeles National Forest. The work is funded by a grant administered by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, from the money awarded to the USDA following the lawsuit brought against the construction companies responsible for the 2002 Copper Fire.
The work started by the removal of many invasive plants which had taken several areas adjacent to a creek feeding into the Santa Clara River. The invasive plant’s competition had led to the conversion of a once-beautiful chaparral landscape into a very thick mix of various non-native grasses, clover and mustard (Hirschfeldia incana, Centaurea melitensis, Erodium cicutarium, Medicago polymorpha, Melilotus indicus, Nicotiana glauca, Bromus diandrus, Bromus madritensis, Bromus hordeauceus, Avena fatua, Piptatherum miliaceum).… Read more >>
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