Coastal Prairie Coastal Sage Scrub Chaparral/ Woodland Serpentine Wetland Riparian

 We also serve as consultants for projects involving riparian areas. A few projects: restoration of creek banks severely impacted by human disturbance, islands in a coastal salt marsh, ecological review of salt march restoration, evaluation and mitigation of creek bank disturbance. Minimal soil disturbance promotes reestablishment of the indigenous plant community, by enhancing the growth of the native species, and inhibiting the germination and growth of alien plant species. Riparian areas are one of the most difficult habitats to restore because they are inherently disturbed every spring as water from seasonal rains lifts, moves, mixes, and deposits soil particles on its paths toward the sea.

Also, riparian areas are targets of human disturbance.

After 3 years the site looks like a recovering plant community, (3 years after a fire).

After seven years with no watering or even maintenance, chaparral! The large bushes are Arctostaphylos glauca, the dead stuff was a hydroseed mix that was forced upon us. It looks like a 'normal' hydroseeded site, dead.