An excerpt from A Geologic and Topographic Profile of the United States Along Interstate 80.
12 clearings are planned for now but more to come as the landscape evolves.
On our site visit, we walked along the ridges and valleys to map out the existing and future paths.
We've inventoried the site's existing native and non-native plant species to see what is currently living there.
A series of weed-clearing and test planting has begun.
3 of 12 test plots. We've been preparing seed lists for all native Californian prairie meadow and chaparral plant species. Mt. Diablo is glowing in the far distance.
Although knee-high wild radish and mustard flowers are very beautiful to walk amongst, we dream of a world where all the native Californian species could mingle back where they once belonged. Not to overly romanticize the idea of "restoration" and ignore the current state of climate change which is more real than ever, but to question what it means to respect where we live; one of the most important ecological hotspots on Earth that is full of diverse flora.
