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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Greetings from the More Mesa Preservation Coalition (MMPC) Board of Directors. For more than 35 years, the MMPC has been highly successful in lobbying the County, Coastal Commission, and other agencies to turn away several large development proposals that would have destroyed many of the values that make More Mesa such a special place. We…
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…
Bio Study Report We are still awaiting release of the draft report on the year long Updated Biological Resources Study of More Mesa. Field work was completed in the early summer and the report is expected to be out within the next month or so. Another Award for the More Mesa Handbook MMPC is both…
Lots of Special Birds A wide area of More Mesa has been surveyed within the last few days. We are most happy to report that 34 different species were identified during this one survey. Among them were two raptors, a Peregrine Falcon and a Cooper’s Hawk. Also of very special interest were eight singing Grasshopper…
Summer Butterflies: If you have not already discovered it, we encourage you to check out one of our web site’s many slide shows of photographs of Butterflies seen on More Mesa. Furthermore, there is a downloadable pdf Guide. And, happily, at this time of year you can see more and more of these local beauties in the…
El Niño: A New Feature on our Web Site Weather is critical to what happens on More Mesa. Drought and its effects on More Mesa have been discussed over the last several years. Now with a “too-big-to-fail” El Niño about to alleviate some of that drought, a new section Ecology->Climate and Weather, has been added…