Service Learning Opportunity

Join Santa Monica Mountains Trails Council on December 14th at Will Rogers State Park for Trail Maintenance of Backbone Trail! Routine trail maintenance. The work will involve mostly brushing with the goal to reach the Lone Oak tree. Meet at Will Rogers State Historic Park. We'll shuttle up to the beginning of the Backbone trail[...]

Join Ventura Land Trust on Saturday, December 14 from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. to help plant trees and remove invasive species at the Big Rock Preserve. VLT staff and volunteers as will get down and dirty to prep the soil, dig holes and create a beautiful arbor of trees that will provide shade, scenery[...]

Join Santa Monica Mountains Trails Council on December 18t at Point Mugu State Park for Trail Maintenance of Serrano Canyon! 8:30AM Point Mugu State Park. Meet at Sycamore Day Use Parking off of PCH. Leader: John Kross 805-587-0721 Link to Map Before You Go Most trail work is on Saturdays and we usually start work[...]

Join Surfrider at one of our monthly beach cleanups!  Most of the items collected at beach cleanups are plastic that don’t truly biodegrade. It is important to host cleanups because we want to help protect the coastal wildlife that we love! Below you will find what to wear, our liability waiver form, where to park,[...]

Surfrider and Channel Islands Audubon On Saturday, February 1st from 9 am - 12 noon, join Ventura Land Trust, alongside The Nature Conservancy and Surfrider, for a clean-up event at The Nature Conservancy’s beautiful Ormond Beach property in Oxnard, CA. Ormond beach represents one of Southern California’s most important coastal habitats for recovery, with several threatened and[...]

The Yerba Mansa Meadow restoration project seeks to restore/enhance approximately 10.8 acres of wetland, riparian and upland habitat through invasive species removal and revegetation with native plants. This meadow is a good example of an ephemeral wetland that has yerba mansa as a dominant species, and this is somewhat uncommon. This project aims to restore[...]

Join Surfrider and SBCK as we visit stations throughout the Ventura River watershed, collect water samples, and do some hands-on field analysis. Ventura Stream Team sampling events take place quarterly, usually on the first Saturday of the corresponding month, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. Pizza and soft drinks are served afterwards. We meet at[...]

Join Santa Monica Mountains Trails Council on February 2nd at Pt Mugu State Park for Trail Maintenance of Old Boney Trail. 8:30AM Routine trail maintenance Meet at the end of Wendy Dr. and Potrero Rd. for shuttle. From the 101 fwy take Wendy Rd. south to the end of the road at Potrero Rd. Leader:[...]

Join Santa Monica Mountains Trails Council on February 8th at Point Mugu State park for Trail Maintenance of La Jolla Valley. 8:30AM Routine trail maintenance. We will be working on various trails in La Jolla Valley. Meet at the end of Wendy Dr. and Potrero Rd. for shuttle. From the 101 fwy take Wendy Rd.[...]

Join TreePeople's Cody Chappel for some Ecological Restoration of critical habitat. We will be expanding native vegetation and removing fire prone and animal injuring plants along the cleanest body of water in Los Angeles county and the critical wildlife corridor it creates. There are 13 spaces available. For more information and to sign up visit:[...]