We got to work with amazing folks from Kids4Freedom&Justice. I pointed out various invasives to people, and then my crew pulled out many a Maltese thistle. After that, we got to hear stories and Tongva songs with Tina Orduno Calderon.
Behold! Garlic mustard!
Wild oats and other stuff
Pituophis catenifer catenifer
Pacific gopher snake. Spotted by the kids!
identifying all the bromes that grew after the rain. So many!
cutting down tree tobacco. Way too many to do by myself.
I found bush poppy above the fire road!
horned toad! These used to be far more common--Argentine ants have supplanted their food supply.
Soil Sponge Collective do a Castor Bean processional!
surveying!
golden fungus on castor stump. Nature is healing?
someone made a Stolen Land tipi art installation!
people are still dumping! :(
I found mulch sites up the hill
bagging up invasives
watering the trees!
we had a wonderful time pulling weeds and scattering native seeds with ST FORWARD and Soil Sponge Collective. Keely from SSC had grown Engelmann Oaks (Quercus engelmannii), an endangered Native oak, to plant in honor of Tongva culture bearer Tina Calderon's family, from Tina's father to Tina's grandchild. Matétera bá, and Aweeshkoné há!
Keely and one of the Englemann oaks she grew.
We found someone had dumped the day after Indigenous Peoples Day! Yuck! We called the MRCA for a pickup.
I found a climbing milkweed, Funastrum cynanchoides var. hartwegii