If oak trees produce thousands of acorns, why are there not more oak trees?
Yes, each oak tree can produce many acorns. However, they do something called masting: dropping thousands of acorns in select years. Many animals, including mice, deer, squirrels, bears, scrub jays and acorn woodpeckers eat acorns to survive. In masting years, trees...
What are the Sky Valley Volunteers?
Sky Valley Volunteers (SVV) is a community service project, under the 501(c)3 non-profit Save Chatsworth, Inc. The project is dedicated to reforesting and maintaining the native oak woodlands in the natural open spaces and mountains of the northwest San Fernando...
Heart Breaking….
Today, I watched Sky Valley, quite literally, go up in smoke... From my vantage point at Sage Ranch, I could see our work area burn. I could see the Santa Monica Mountains beyond it. I realized the column of smoke I was looking at, were the Visitor Center, the State...