February 2010
“More Mesa In Santa Barbara County”
A video of More Mesa by Ronald Williams, showing some of the sweeping views of the greening, rain-drenched mesa — of Winter 2010.
More Mesa In Santa Barbara County from Ronald Williams on Vimeo.
“More Mesa In Santa Barbara County”
A video of More Mesa by Ronald Williams, showing some of the sweeping views of the greening, rain-drenched mesa — of Winter 2010.
More Mesa In Santa Barbara County from Ronald Williams on Vimeo.
Newsletter Available for Download Earlier this year, our four page, full color Newsletter was distributed. It contained an update on conditions on and around More Mesa, and the activities of the MMPC. At that time, more than 800 members of the community interested in the preservation of More Mesa received the document. Since then, we…
This month’s news brings you excerpts of a recent MMPC press release. South Coast residents face many challenges protecting our environment and quality of life, including traffic congestion, provision of affordable housing and protection of agricultural land and open space. Protection of irreplaceable agricultural land and critical open space is often the most hotly debated…
GREAT NEWS! On April 13th, we passed the first hurdle on our Coastal Commission appeal of the Hacienda Vieja project! After a short presentation by MMPC, and one by the developer, members of the Coastal Commission voted overwhelmingly against their staff’s recommendation of “NO significant issues”. This means that, some time in the future, MMPC…
Russian KnapweedLast fall the More Mesa Preservation Coalition reported that we were cooperating with County Parks, Channel Islands Restoration and Santa Barbara’s Agricultural Commissioner, David Chang, in a process to remove an extremely harmful invasive, known as “Russian Knapweed”, from More Mesa. At the time of the first phase of the eradication process, there was…
Reptiles and Amphibians: In the past we have highlighted many of the biological resources found on More Mesa: birds, plants, mammals and, in last month’s update, our colorful insects, the butterflies. So it seems timely that the recent finding of a very long Gopher Snake shed should prompt this month’s discussion of the reptiles and…
Photographers of More Mesa Through the decade since our formation in 2000, our web site and publications have been graced with hundreds of images, images both scientifically important and amazingly beautiful. All of these images have been generously donated to the More Mesa Preservation Coalition by many extremely talented photographers. Today we are proud to…