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Meet our Maintenance Worker, David
Meet our dedicated subcontractor David Garcia! David is a wonderful, hard-working and dedicated maintenance worker that helps keep the trailheads clean for all of us. He always has a friendly smile and many of you probably already know him. We recently gave David a Certificate of Appreciation for his outstanding efforts of extinguishing a fire from a vehicle accident and for his first-rate dedication and hard work in caring for the Habitat Authority properties especially during this pandemic. (David works for the MRCA, the agency that the Habitat Authority contracts with for ranger services) If you see him on the trails, wave and say...
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Read MoreFire Preparedness
FIRE PREPAREDNESS With summer comes the heat. Native plants, which were lush and blooming during the spring rainy season, go dormant and the Puente Hills turn golden. Fire season is actually the time of year in which emergency responders are at a higher level of preparedness for fires. This is dictated when weather patterns are warm and dry, vegetation (fuels) are at a low moisture content point, and winds are strong. This season has expanded over the years and is typically May to January in our local area, if not year-round. From CalFire’s recommendation of hardening homes to reducing the fuel load around structures, preparation from all angles is our collective...
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Ecologist Blog
- Time for the Animals
- What Makes Them Tick - By Bo Gould (intern)
- Shaking it Up with Rattlesnakes - by Bo Gould (intern)
- Living With Coyotes
- It’s the Great Backyard Bird Count
- Rodenticides....Unintended Consequences
- Stop, look, listen!
- Something is bugging our oaks...
- Should you be afraid of bobcats?
- What’s Lurking in your Firewood?