Tommy Hosts ReWild Presentation on UC Santa Barbara Effort

By Tommy Hough

With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing this year's Love Your Wetlands Day to a virtual setting, I hosted the first of several Love Your Wetlands Day webinars for the San Diego Audubon Society and the ReWild Mission Bay campaign with a presentation from Dr. Lisa Stratton, director of ecosystem management with the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (CCBER) at UC Santa Barbara, who discussed their successful effort to restore and "rewild" an abandoned seaside golf course into 665 acres of restored wetlands, natural habitat, and open space at the mouth of Devereux Creek on the UCSB campus in Goleta.

The entire presentation from Feb. 9th, including greetings from several of our local elected officials, is now on-line at the San Diego Audubon YouTube account.