Winter Newsletter 2013 Volume 19, Number 4
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The Beauty of OVLC’s Winter Restoration Work at the Ventura River Preserve
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Ojai Valley Land Conservancy P.O. Box 1092 • Ojai, CA 93024 370 W. Baldwin Rd. A-4 Tel. 805.649.6852 • Fax 649.8913 info@ovlc.org • www.ovlc.org
Board of Directors
Don Reed, President Sandy Buechley, Vice President Cricket Twichell, Secretary Nathan Wallace, Treasurer Mary Bergen Roger Essick Brian Holly Ann Oppenheimer
Sandy Buechley Margot Griswold Allan Jacobs Barbara Washburn
Staff
Greg Gamble, Executive Director Nick Auringer, Restoration Technician Rick Bisaccia, Preserve Manager Todd Bertola, Restoration Technician Darcy Gamble, Marketing & Membership Marti Reid, Office Manager Ron Singer, Nursery Manager Brian Stark, Conservation Director Lorraine Walter, Watershed Coordinator Lauren Ward, Restoration Technician
“The Ojai” by OVLC Member and Ojai Native Peter Larramendy The green is more vibrant now. Spring came with the Orioles. One just landed in the Valencia Tree, they are companions once they meet with spring. The forest of tangerines Give the air a luscious taste in my mouth. I savor and handle it with care. Giving each cheek a feel of the taste wtice, before releasing it back into the valley. The meadow is a marsh now. Cattail Reeds grow like fingernails, while Red-Winged Blackbirds sally from tail to rail taunting for terriroty. I was there today, walking in water, had thigh waders on. There was a hole in them water filled the bottom of the boots made squishy Like the mud below.
by Les Dublin
I constructed a home in the middle of the marsh, for tree swallows to enjoy an island house. There were moments that I’ll never forget in the meadow. When I was a boy I plated amoung Tall eucalyptus and oaks who sat and watched me gambol and play hide and seek with my basset hound Chip. During the year, the grass was usually dry. But the marsh I helpted to restor is back to what it was. I’m glad the meadow is a marsh now.