Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden Sunday

This coming Sunday, November 21st, we will be meeting in the Ralph's Parking lot at Marina Pacifica at 8.30am (I know, it's early for a Sunday) to get to Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens in Claremont by 10am for a guided tour. The gardens are beautiful and an amazing demonstration of the unique plant life we have here in Southern California (http://www.rsabg.org/). We will be carpooling so please RSVP at Taylor@tidalinfluence.com and say whether you can drive or not. Admission is as follows: Members: Free; Adults: $8; Seniors (65+): $6; Students w/ valid ID: $6; Children aged 3-12: $4. We should be back in Long Beach by mid afternoon.

October Minutes

Minutes

October 28^th, 2010

The meeting was called to order by Taylor Parker at 7:10 p.m.

In attendance –

Tiffany Chen, Dorothy Kimmeny, Bruce Monroe, Mary Parcell, Chris Ward, Taylor Parker, Kerry Martin, Joe Weinstein, Jill Brennan,

Introduction

EcoLink—Taylor Parker

Discussion of field trip to Ortega Highway and next field trip to be decided. 2011 Planning meeting set for EcoLink set for November 15^th at Viento y Agua at 6pm.

ecolinklongbeach.blogspot.com

Office of Sustainability—Jill Brennan

Discussion of planting of riparian plants along channel in El Dorado Regional Park. Discussion of Oktoberfest in El Dorado Park and its effect of cutting off bird access to the ponds.

El Dorado Audubon—Kerry Martin

Discussion of the stream restoration and upcoming nature center events, including “Out of the Wild and into Your Garden.” The Nature Center also has a lot of Native Plants leftover from their plant sale.

http://www.longbeach.gov/naturecenter/

El Dorado Audubon-Mary Parcell

Discussion of El Dorado Audubon activities. October talk is “Birds of the Eastern Sierra.”

http://eldoradoaudubon.org/

Los Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust-Mary Parcell

Discussion of Land Trust activities. Important Coastal Commission meeting is November 19^th in Santa Monica regarding the 2H land scraping in the Los Cerritos Wetlands conservation area.

http://www.lcwlandtrust.org/

CSULB Environmental Club – Tiffany Chen

Discussion of the club and the past week’s Eco Week. Details of EcoWeek: Panel to talk about Environmental Jobs & Issues, 30 vendors, screedned ‘Tapped,’ sustainability and politics conference, and a Belmont Shore cleanup on Saturday the 30^th.

http://csulbesp.blogspot.com/

GreenLB – Tiffany Chen

Discussion of GreenLB’s activities. Members Harvest Potluck - Sunday November 14^th at 430 1^st St. @ 5pm. Starting January there will be regular meetings to plan Green LB festival.

http://www.greenlb.org/

Surfrider– Bruce Monroe

Discussion of the Plan B 4.0. Discussion of Rise Above Plastic, a prototype project putting retrievable trash into the San Gabriel River to see where the trash goes and then alerting volunteers through various media after a large rain event.

http://www.lbsurfrider.org/

Green Party – Dorothy Kimmeny

Discussion of the Green Party activities and upcoming elections. Discussion of ‘No on 23.’

http://www.cagreens.org/longbeach/

Los Cerritos Wetlands Stewardship Program – Taylor Parker

Discussion of community-based restoration.

lcwetlands.org

Friends of Colorado Lagoon-Taylor Parker

Discussion of restoration and closing of FOCL’s education program.

coloradolagoon.org

Next Field Trip: November 21^st – Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens

Photos from the Ortega Highway Trip!!

Here are some photos from the latest field trip, enjoy!


I think this is a Garter Snake but I didn't see any red on it and I am definitely not a herpetologist.


Here is a view from the hill above the fire station/nature center.

And here is the lovely group looking at the creek below the San Juan Loop trail that we hiked. I believe we were trying to identify the insects quickly moving above the surface of the creek.

And the group of EcoLinkers posing upon granite bordered by sycamore and oak.

October Field Trip: Ortega Highway

This weekend EcoLink is supporting native plants! First, on Saturday is the El Dorado Nature Center's Native Plant Sale. From their website: "Event begins at 9:30 am. Current members of “Friends” get in early at 9:00 am. Come early for the best selection. For more information call (562) 570-1745 " The event ends at 2pm but I promise you most of the plants will be gone by 11am so get there early.

Sunday, is our October field trip to the Ortega Highway from San Juan Capistrano. We will be going into the Cleveland National Forest to explore the magnificent floral species on the 2.2 mile San Juan Loop, the great sycamores of Caspers Wilderness Park, a breathtaking view of Lake Elsinore and the legendary candy store. At 1pm we will meet in the standard EcoLink field trip meeting spot: Ralph's parking lot in Marina Pacifica. I expect we can explore the Cleveland and get back by sunset.

And remember EcoLink's monthly meeting is Thursday October 28th at the Unitarian Church on Atherton and Bellflower at 7pm.

If you have questions, feel free to contact Taylor: Taylor@tidalinfluence.com or 562.331.0226.

September Minutes

Minutes

Bike Count– Tiffany Chen

Discussion of City of Long Beach’s annual bike count. Volunteers are needed.

http://www.bikelongbeach.org/

Green Party – Dorothy Kimmeny

Discussion of the Green Party activities and upcoming elections.

http://www.cagreens.org/longbeach/

Aquarium of the Pacific– Bruce Monroe

Discussion of the Plan B 4.0.

http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/

Sierra Club– Michael Milroy

Discussion of the Sierra Club acitivities.

http://angeles.sierraclub.org/longbch/

El Dorado Audubon-Mary Parcell

Discussion of El Dorado Audubon activities. October talk by Erin Kellogg regarding her work with the BP oil spill. October 15^th Los Cerritos walk.

http://eldoradoaudubon.org/

Port of Long Beach – Patricia Sidoti

Discussion of the Green Port.

polb.com

Los Cerritos Wetlands Stewardship Program – Taylor Parker

Discussion of community-based restoration.

lcwetlands.org

Friends of Colorado Lagoon-Taylor Parker

Discussion of restoration and closing of FOCL’s education program.

coloradolagoon.org

EcoLink—Christopher Ward

Discussion of 350.org’s ‘Get to Work Day’ on 10-10-10. Discussion of Hope walk on October 16^th

ecolinklongbeach.blogspot.com

Next Field Trip: October 24t^th, 2010 –Ortega Highway/ San Juan Loop hike

Next Meeting: October 28^th, 2010 – Unitarian Church on Bellflower and Atherton

New Tshirts!

EcoLink has tshirts! For Sale! For Fundraising! And they're cheap! $13!

Email Taylor for a tshirt! ~ Taylor@tidalinfluence.com

August Minutes

Minutes
August 26th, 2010

The meeting was called to order by Taylor Parker at 7:15 p.m.
In attendance –
Chris Ward, Kerry Martin, Taylor Parker, Joe Weinstein, Patricia Sidoti, Mary Parcell, Heather Altman,

Introduction
El Dorado Nature Center – Kerry Martin
Discussion of the Nature Center and their upcoming activities.
longbeach.gov/naturecenter/

Shipley Nature Center – Kerry Martin
Discussion of the Nature Center and their upcoming activities.

Egrets Not Regrets – Heather Altman
Discussion of the Greener is Greater event on September 18th.
egretsnotregrets.com

El Dorado Audubon-Mary Parcell
Discussion of El Dorado Audubon. September 16th hummingbird talk.

Port of Long Beach – Patricia Sidoti
Discussion of the Green Port.

Los Cerritos Wetlands Stewardship Program – Taylor Parker
Discussion of community-based restoration.
lcwetlands.org

Friends of Colorado Lagoon-Taylor Parker
Discussion of restoration and closing of FOCL’s education program.
coloradolagoon.org

EcoLink-- Taylor Parker
Discussion of 350.org’s ‘Get to Work Day’ on 10-10-10.
ecolinklongbeach.blogspot.com

Next Meeting: September 30th , 2010