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Bodie Hills Pinyon Community Climate Action Project (PiCCA) Health-Blitz Day

Calling all citizen scientists! Come join us for a morning of Pinyon Woodland Health Surveying! Friends of the Inyo and researchers with the PiCCA project will be hosting a Pinyon Woodland Health Survey Health-Blitz the morning of Saturday, November 9th in the Bodie Mountain Wilderness Study Area, north of the 270. Details: Where: Bodie Mountain Wilderness Study Area, north of the 270: 38.17370″ N, -119.17790″ W When: 9AM-Noon. Saturday, November 9th 2024 Why: Check out the PiCCA project here: https://www.pinyonjuniper.org/ What: We will be surveying stands of Pinyon for overall Woodland Health. Researchers from Stanford and Berkeley will train all…

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Pinyon Community Climate Action Project (PiCCA) Health-Blitz Day

Calling all citizen scientists! Come join us for a morning of Pinyon Woodland Health Surveying Friends of the Inyo and researchers with the PiCCA project will be hosting a Pinyon Woodland Health Survey Health-Blitz the morning of Sunday, September 8th near the Wildrose Canyon area in the Glass Mountains off Benton Crossing Rd/Long Valley. Details: Where: Glass Mountains off Benton Crossing Rd near Wildrose Canyon: 37°43’20.0″N 118°35’35.6″W When: 9AM-Noon. Sunday, Septmber 8th 2024 Why: Check out the PiCCA project here: https://www.pinyonjuniper.org/ What: We will be surveying stands of Pinyon for overall Woodland Health. Researchers from Stanford and Berkeley will train…

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Restoring Oak Creek

In 2007, a massive fire flared up along Oak Creek, just north of Independence in the southern Owens Valley. A catastrophic flood then scoured the creek in 2008, destroying much of the remaining riparian vegetation. Nearly a decade later, the creek is still barely vegetated and unprotected from future floods. We joined the Fort Independence Tribe, the California Native Plants Society, and the Inyo National Forest on December 14 to take a small step toward restoring Oak Creek’s streamside forest. With a troop of 20 volunteers, we worked until sundown and put over 250 locally grown native plants in the…