Oak Regeneration and Restoration in Santa Barbara County:
A lecture, workshop, and field trip

Valley Oak in Santa Barbara County: its status and distribution
Thursday, November 16, 7 p.m., St. Marks-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church, Los Olivos

Frank Davis, UCSB Professor in the School of Environmental Science and  Management, will present his research findings about the long-term trends in  valley oak populations in the Santa Ynez and Los Alamos valleys. A short update on sudden oak death (SOD), which is affecting coast live oak,  tanbark oak, and black oak in Northern and Central California, will follow  Dr. Davis' presentation.

Techniques for Growing Oaks from Acorns
Saturday, November 18, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Rain date, Dec. 2. UC Sedgwick Reserve (For directions, call numbers below.)

Workshop leaders are Douglas McCreary, Natural Resources Specialist with UC's Integrated Hardwood Range Management Program, and Claudia Tyler, manager of the Santa Barbara County Oak Restoration Program. We will plant acorns at a restoration site at Sedgwick Reserve using several different planting methods and tour the oak regeneration studies being conducted there. We conclude with a visit to Las Cruzitas Ranch to observe its valley oak restoration project.

Co-sponsored by: Santa Barbara County Oak Restoration Program, Sedgwick  Reserve, UC (Cooperative Extension) Integrated Hardwood Range Management  Program, and Santa Ynez Valley Natural History Society

For more information please call Claudia Tyler at 455-5711 or John Evarts at 688-0413, or email tyler@lifesci.ucsb.edu
 

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