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[Biology Undergraduate List]

The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County and local contractor The Native 
Landscape (TNL) have several positions available in the restoration of 
native plant communities at the Coronado Butterfly Preserve in the 
Ellwood neighborhood of Goleta.  For the past five years, TNL has been 
awarded grants from the UCSB Coastal Fund to hire students and restore 
portions of the Preserve.  Over forty UCSB students have participated in 
the restoration of over an acre of coastal sage scrub, oak woodland, and 
native grassland, helping to plant 5,000 plants representing forty 
species.  The sixth and final year of restoration will begin in 
January.  Work will take place every Monday in flexible 3-4 hour 
shifts throughout Winter quarter and into the first half of Spring 
quarter. * Student interns will be paid a $250 stipend for thirty hours 
of work, or receive one unit of academic credit through the 
Environmental Studies program or Geography department.  *Work includes 
developing and maintaining a small nursery, mowing non-native weeds and 
removing the resulting thatch, preparing the soil and eliminating the 
weed seed bank through roto-tilling, planting nursery stock and seeding 
the site with natives, and maintaining the plantings through irrigation 
and manual weeding.  Students will work together in small groups with 
the contractor and learn plant identification, some basic botany and 
plant ecology, and the natural history of our region.  A brief site 
visit/orientation will be scheduled before the end of Fall quarter to 
hire the crew.  If interested, please call Jason at 569-5429.  Thanks!
 
                                                                                                                           Jason 
Nelson

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