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Save some native chaparral

Know anyone in the San Diego area other than me?  This sounds like a noble
cause and I'm gonna try to help.

Nan
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>>If you would like to help save some native coastal marine scrub plants,
>>please contact Tony Barrett at 587-3670 (abarrett@ucsd.edu) or Diana
>>Bergen, 543-2986, on Tuesday, June 16th.
>>
>>There is a parcel of coastal marine scrub that will be bulldozed in a few
>>days.  The developer
>>is allowing plants to be removed in an attempt to transplant them to UCSD.
>>The project is being coordinated by a student green activist, Tony Barrett,
>>in cooperation with the UCSD Campus Landscape Architect, Diana Bergen.
>>They need help to get these plants dug up and moved and if anyone has
>>mechanized equipment that can do this job, even better!
>>
>>The coastal marine scrub environment is now extremely rare.  UCSD is not
>>only trying to preserve the remnants on its campus, it is also working to
>>reestablish some of this native plant ecosystem where it had previously
>>been removed.  Because this kind of plant community is become rare, even in
>>park lands, it is difficult to get them.  Getting plants like these usually
>>requires major financial expenditures, which the University cannot afford.
>>So you now have an opportunity to bridge this problem with your person
>>power.  Help try and save a native plant's life.
>>
>>If you can not make this dig, but would like to help to something similar
>>in the future, please call and get on the list as a potential plant saver
>>of the future.  And don't forget to use native plants in your garden.  They
>>are beautiful, they save water and some are edible and medicinal.
>>
>>Go Native!
>>
>>< thanks to Glenn Torbett <gtorbett@ucsd.edu>, Sierra Club volunteer for
>>passing this along>
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Nan Sterman, Master Composter in residency
San Diego County, California
Sunset zone 24, USDA zone 10b or 11
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