More Mesa Preservation Coalition Celebrates 10th Anniversary This month the More Mesa Preservation Coalition celebrates its 10th anniversary! In this very eventful decade, we have grown from a tiny cadre of less than 10 concerned neighbors in the More Mesa area, to a supporter base of 1000 community members from all over Santa Barbara county,…
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…
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…
ANOTHER AWARD: The More Mesa Handbook is once again in the limelight! This time as the winner of the Association of Environmental Professionals (AEP) “2010 Outstanding Public Involvement/Education Program” for the entire state of California! The award was conferred jointly to AMEC – Earth and Environmental, and the More Mesa Preservation Coalition website. The AEP…
“Soft” Solution Offered to Solve Goleta Beach Erosion Problems Since 2003, the County of Santa Barbara has been investigating ways to mitigate the loss of beach area at Goleta Beach. These losses are attributed to natural erosion that occurs during winter storms, and especially, severe ones. Both “hard” solutions, which employ structures and/or rockwork, and…