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Location Community Useful links Nature links	Nature Links Local North Campus Open Space (formerly the Ocean Meadows golf course up to Ellwood Mesa and beyond to the Sandpiper golf course next to Bacara) UCSB's information clearinghouse about what is happening and will happen there: http://www.openspace.vcadmin.ucsb.edu (the "Planning" tab--not updated Sept. 2013 to March 2014--may ultimately be a page to watch) "Nature Saturdays" Apr.-Sept. 2014 are sponsored by the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity & Ecological Restoration History of Campbell Ranch (the Devereux area purchased by UCSB in 2009) Sept. 2012 Edhat.com article by the Urban Hikers (Stacey Wright & Peter Hartmann). lavishly illustrated Coal Oil Point reserve Video of Devereux slough breaching, Feb. 16, 2009 The Last Barge from the Marine Terminal for Platform Holly, Feb. 22, 2012 Video histories of the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill (which spawned the modern environmental movement) Coronodo/Ellwood Mesa Butterfly Preserve KCET page with videos and links Ellwood Mesa Open Space page, with maps (by the City of Goleta, which runs the preserve) Land Trust for SB County page, with links to Xerxes Society pages about butterfly lifecycle Best visiting on sunny days when the temperature is above 57 degrees. Season: Halloween to Valentine's Day. Photo pages on edhat: Jan. 2013 in motion, clusters; map of butterfly count, 1989-2014 Jan. 31, 2014 Mission & State article about fluctuations in the annual butterfly count at Coronado preserve: 17,150 in 2012, but only 2,355 in 2013. Devereux Slough habitat restoration Million Dollar Grant for Slough/Wetland Restoration, Dec. 2010 West Campus bluffs path preservation (Feb. 1, 2011 Independent); (Apr. 19, 2011 opening); 4/2/2012 new restoration grant) Ocean Meadows Golf Course: History of developing the flood plain; GoletaHistory.com: What's a "goleta" (schooner)? Where was "our" Nazi POW camp? What about that Ellwood sub attack? Barndale & Rio Grande Oil Co. filling station (from 1929, on Hollister near Bacara) "Architectural Influence" (Apr. 25, 2015): about filling station motifs picked up by Ellwood School and the SB Zoo History of Mescaltitlan Island -- that hump between the airport and Goleta Beach Park History of aviation & the airport in Goleta--two original hangars slated for demolition in 2014 History of Isla Vista: Jennifer Hildreth Strand, "Evolution of a Boom Town: Isla Vista, California, 1915-1968" (UCSB MA Thesis, 1987), 149 pages. Isla Vista Recreation and Park District Gray Whale count at Coal Oil Point SB Museum of Natural History West Campus Stables Old Town Goleta (Hollister between Fairview and Patterson) 1948 photo with a bit of local history; same spot on google maps User photos at Santa Barbara's online news community edhat.com Walk on the Ellwood bluffs, March 2015: herons, lizards, pelicans, plover Coal-Oil-Point sunset & birds, Dec. 2013; natural seeps from the air Tidepools off of Coal Oil Point, Jan. 2012 Early Morning Refections in Devereux Slough, Sept. 2011 This year, there were two pairs of seasonal swans hanging out in the slough, July 2011 Hummingbirds, Butterflies and Owls at the Ellwood Monarch Preserve, Jan. 2009 Cormorants, Egrets, Terns, Brown Pelicans, Ducks, and an Ibis enjoying a brim-full slough after the first rain of the season, Oct. 2009 Coots, herons, ducks and a swan amidst beautiful reflections on Devereux Slough, Dec. 2008 Lake Los Carneros: Super bird pics May 22, 2012; a few more May 27, 2012 Knapp's Castle on East Camino Cielo, not far from Painted Cave Road: Jan. 29, 2012 sunset (private land but public access). Directions (30+ min. drive): go up highway 154 to East Caminio Cielo (over the crest of the hill), turn right, go 3.0 miles (about 1+ miles after Painted Cave Rd--or turn off 154 onto Painted Cave's other end, pass the cave and the "Jane Fonda" community, until you hit E. Camino Cielo, then right 1 mile). A great place to take guests. aerial view. Regional Aerial photos of the California coastline Los Padres National Forest website Nojoqui Falls Park (26 miles up 101, just a short hike to an ektopic waterfall) Pacific Crest Trail Santa Barbara Zoo: 12/11 Penguin with Teva shoe; 1/12 favorite animal pix; 1/12 new baby giraffe, 4/12 aerial photo of giraffes. Santa Maria Museum of Natural History U.S. Ocean Commission (commission expired in 2004) Carpinteria State Beach: photos at low tide, Jan. 2013 (there's nothing here you can't find at our Coal Oil Point!); photos of landscape
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