Journal Entry Week 7

March 6, 2013
Week 7

Work Hrs: 6 Total Hrs: 52

Week 7

        This week was pretty mellow. Most of the day was spent planting a mulched and fenced off area in the middle terrace area. The area we were planting was going to become filled with mostly California coastal prairie scrub. The fenced area to be worked was surrounded amongst some rather large established diverse coastal prairie scrub. The species that were planted were: coffeeberry or Rhamnus californica, yarrow or Achillea millifolium, California sagebrush or Artemesia californica, silver leaf lupine or Lupinus albifrons, sticky monkey flower or mimulus aronticus, and lizard's tail or Eriophyllum staechadiofolium.

        Later that afternoon I spent a solid amount of time conducting my usual water level well monitoring data collection around the YLR. There are many wells drilled all along the YLR and we are currently collecting data from 9 varied dispersed sites. This data is being collected to observe the natural rise and fall of the ground water in the water table underneath the reserve terraces. Data is also being collected to observe where the ground water is most prevalent in conjunction with the location of wetlands on the reserve. Another reason for ground water monitoring at the YLR is to find locations for possible wetland creation potential or current site wetness where restoration and site delineation can occur. Walking around to the various well sites and collecting water depth data is relaxing, but also quite important to the restoration work being done at the YLR. After all, the restoration work being completed is because of the important bio diverse federally protected wetland habitats. I would love to come back in two or three years and see the YLR native habitats flourishing including the precious wetlands.

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A local red tailed hawk.

 Capitola sunrise bike ride on the way to the lagoon.

I caught this awesome bobcat sneaking in the grass by the upper terrace.