First Piece of Santa Barbara’s More Mesa Permanently Preserved
We’re proud to share that the Santa Barbara Independent recently featured our work to permanently protect 36 acres of More Mesa — a historic milestone for conservation in our community.
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In many of our communications to More Mesa Preservation Coalition supporters, we have emphasized the importance of building a very large and powerful supporter base. MMPC stresses this point over and over, because, at this stage of our efforts to preserve More Mesa , it is crucial that all the people who care deeply about…
Independent gets it wrong, but MMPC gets it right! While the announcement of potential development was no surprise to any of us at the More Mesa Preservation Coalition, a recent article in the Independent (30 July 2015) , in response to a More Mesa Press release (here and here), got it wrong. We have been tracking the…
Bobcats On More Mesa Some of you may have seen the marvelous photos of Bobcats taken recently on the Douglas Preserve. And, we are most pleased to report both evidence and a sighting a Bobcat on More Mesa as well; scat was reported on the west side and an animal was seen near Atascadero Creek…
More Mesa is a always fertile ground for our many area photographers … no matter the season. In addition to the treasure trove of photographs from our own Lynn Watson, (see September 2009 News) we often discover other More Mesa photographers. This month we feature several shots from Yuji Kozaki of the Donald Bren School…
A Cautionary Tale In our Monthly News for October of last year we talked about the distinct difference between the cliffs of More Mesa on the east side and those of the west side. In that issue we emphasized the danger involved in the steep, unstable and unpredictable west side cliffs of More Mesa, those…
Bobcat Family: Over the years, anecdotal, and very informal reports of Bobcat sightings have reached the More Mesa Preservation Coalition. Moreover, we have never received any written or photographic documentation of these reports. However this year, it has become clear that a Bobcat family is frequenting More Mesa. The mother was first seen in spring,…