Reclaiming a beautiful knoll a small ca native meadow, from a dumb ass pot growing scene.
Doing a restoration project for a neighbor. 60' bed of 100% rip gut brome introduced by a bale of grass hay. Pulled the fresh crop of rip gut brome, reseeded with an excellent ca perennial native grass mix from Larner seeds. Elymus Glaucous, (ca wild blue rye) Bromus Carinatus, (ca brome) and Hordeum ( CA wild barley grass) Trimmed back the bacharrus ( coyote bush) and used the prunings as mulch to keep the juncos from eating all the seed. Cool things about coyote bush ( bacharrus), it has a natural wax on the leaves that has fire retardant properties, can be pruned into a hedge, flowers in late fall making it a beneficial food source for pollinators.
#WatershedRestoration #CaNativeGrass #ElymusGlaucus #BromusCarinatus #HordeumBrachyanthrrum #CaNativeMeadow

Ok im gonna say it, all phone cameras suck, are
💩 💩 💩 and are a poor excuse for a camera. Went for a hike in the rain today to take some mushroom photos. I find a beautiful ganoderma and gave up trying to take a photo. If a drop of rain falls on the screen it goes bonkers zooming in and out by itself, if theres the slightest moisture on ones finger the screen wont function. Press as many times as you want, with a wet finger nothing happens. Waste time trying to dry screen, waste time trying to dry hands. Phone cameras are equally bad in the sun, where its all guessing what ones taking a photo of because of screen glare.
I took one photo of my neighbor, the lovely
Anthoxanthum Occidentale AKA CA Vanilla Grass and or CA Sweet Grass. It grows in the forest and likes shade, a close relative of the other sweetgrass used for ceremonial purposes
#CaNativeGrass
#NativeGrass
#CaVanillaGrass
#CaSweetGrass
#AnthoxanthumOccidentale
#ShadeLovingPlants
#PhoneCamerasSuck

Debris torrent at site of recent culvert replacement. This should not have happened. There hasnt been enough rain to cause this under normal circumstances. A salmon bearing stream runs a few hundred yards below this road failure.
The equipment operator pulled out all the coyote bush by the roots adjacent to the site, and accidentally changed the rd hydrology just enough so water came straight down the road instead of into the culvert.
Notice the coyote bush that wasnt pulled, on the left and right of the debris torrent has not slid. A lesson to be learned, let coyote bush stand near culverts outlets. And road equipment operators who understand hydrology are extremely rare, and worth their weight in gold.
Lucky i collected a bunch of ca wild blue rye grass (Elymus Glaucus) earlier in the year from this site. I will seed it this week.
#SoilErosion #culverts #RoadMaintenance
#CaNativeGrass #CaWildBlueRye
#ElymusGlaucus
#nativeplants