This month's #volunteer day was spent cutting and burning brush to clear burn breaks for some larger acreage units we're hoping to burn in the spring. The crew's work will also improve growing conditions for spring ephemerals like bloodroot and wild sarsaparilla.
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Our #stewardship fellows have been removing small diameter trees and brush from Pasque Flower Ridge, a glacial moraine on our property. This helps improve connectivity between adjacent #prairie plots, so birds and pollinators can more easily access food and key habitat!
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We've got a need… a need to collect seeds!
Particularly Canada wild rye―a native grass that will help re-establish areas where we'll be working to remove invasive brush. 🌾
Thanks to our many volunteers for helping gather seeds with us!! 🤲🫘
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📣 Announcement! Our newest certified Community Active Wildlife Steward is A Kayak Shack in Morro Bay! CAWS businesses are certified when they meet our criteria for wildlife stewardship in their business practices.
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#StewardshipSaturday On the water with Monterey Bay Kayaks’ Paw Patrol, we saw abundant wildlife, lush eelgrass, savvy kayakers, and lots of napping otters.
🦦Paw Patrol will be on the water keeping wildlife safe weekends this summer in Elkhorn Slough along with @NOAA sanctuaries’ Team OCEAN. 🙏
#StewardshipSaturday! Our central coast sea otter savvy kayak shops are decking out their fleets with our new and improved kayak stickers for summer! Spot one on your kayak? Take a pic and tag us!
Thanks to all the businesses that go the extra mile to protect wildlife!
It’s #StewardshipSaturday and we are recognizing some tour boats we’ve spotted doing a GREAT job giving resting sea otters space! Remember, bigger boats need to give MORE SPACE. Shout out to Morro Bay’s Chablis Cruises and the Lost Isle—we see you being sea otter savvy!
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It’s #StewardshipSaturday and the perfect day to celebrate volunteers from CA State Parks’ SeaLife Stewards and @elephantsealfriend.bsky.social who attended their sea otter savvy training m with our director, Gena. Volunteers like these are the essential to community-based wildlife stewardship.
#StewardshipSaturday: It was a picture perfect day on Elkhorn Slough with the super savvy Aptos Community Youth Program! These young stewards learned about sea otters while shore spotting, then took that savvy to the water to demo #seaottersavvy guidelines. A+++, young stewards!
Today was our first Sea Otter Savvy field experience of the year! Kids from CHISPA Housing experienced the sea otters of Elkhorn Slough from both shore- and kayak-based modules. We believe youth are the wildlife stewards not just of the future, but now!
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#StewardshipSaturday DYK that Sea Otter Savvy’s long-term sea otter disturbance research is conducted almost entirely by volunteers? Our community science team not only collects data, they educate the public & become role models among their peers.
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We are excited to announce Central Coast Outdoors as our #CAWS Stewards of the Year for 2024! Owners John and Virginia imbue every kayak tour of Morro Bay with awareness, wonder, and stewardship for the precious wildlife living there. 🧵👇🏻
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