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face="Arial" size="2"><span class="663251417-27112007">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. <b> 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. </b>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!</span></font>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="663251417-27112007"> Jason
Nelson</span></font></div>
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