Davis SCB- Restoration and Community Conservation

Restoration and Community Conservation

2007 OPPORTUNITIES
Please email Jim Thorne at jhthorne@ucdavis.edu if you are interested in helping out with any of these activities!

1. Donating acorns to various groups for their restoration efforts
There was a very small crop of acorns this year, and our group was one of the only ones to find any. We have donated: 100 to the arboretum; 30 to a high school nature group; 200 to the Audubon restoration efforts including the Sloughs program; and 100 to the Woodland Tree Foundation, who plant around schools and along the highways in Woodland. Check out all the planted trees on 113 next time you go up that way!

2. Oak Potting
We have over 500 acorns in sprouting trays, and they are starting to sprout! We use this time to plan activities as well as get acorns into their containers.

Upcoming Potting Events:

TBA: Please check back soon!

Please bring any clean containers you may have, and possibly a serrated knife to help cut them up. Also, please RSVP if possible.

To prepare for potting, we need help in collecting quart containers. People who live near coffee shops (e.g. Peet's on Covell, Mishka's on 2nd street) are encouraged to approach those shops and start a pick up from them.

3. Oak Planting
Help offset your carbon footprint through native tree landscaping!

Upcoming Planting Events:

TBA: Please check back soon!

What to bring: Sturdy shoes, sun hat, shovels, post hole digger (that's a PhD for all you academic types), small serrated knife, water to drink, gloves, a bag lunch or snack.

We will provide: seedlings, stakes, protector tubes, plastic zips, fertilizer pellets, plastic buckets, instructions. Those of you with equipment of this type, please bring it!

The Putah Creek Reserve has indicated they will need about 50 seedlings. The campus grounds have agreed to host many trees, potentially all along Hutchinson on the West Campus. This would be several 100 trees.

After our last potting party, we have about 240 acorns now potted at Jim's. There are also going to be at least 50 coast live oak seedlings potted, and those will need a home in the hills, rather than on the valley floor.

4. Carbon Sequestration Fund
We are interested in starting a carbon credit program at UCDavis. Besides getting the seedlings ready for planting, there are several other things we need before we can get it underway:

Bench space at the greenhouses over on the south side of campus.
Figure out the monetary mechanism to let people donate to the fund. This would need to be a SCB account that would eventually pay the grounds department to water the trees in their first year.
Figure out how much a contribution should be.
Calculate how much carbon will be sequestered in around 30 and 50 years.

PAST ACTIVITIES

Second Oak Potting Party A Success!
The second oak potting party of the 2007 season, on Tuesday Feb 6th, resulted in 110 acorns planted in pots. One cubic yard of compost was donated (Thanks to Rich Marovich, Solano Stream Keeper), most of it was used for the pottings.

PHOTOS

Putah Creek Oak Plantings

SCB, together with Putah Creek Council, coordinated several oak plantings along Putah Creek.

(click pictures to enlarge)