Location: Santa Barbara County
Project Type: Restoration
Status: Completed
Habitat Type: Tidal Wetland
Cost: $1,799,250
Area Affected: 34.41 acres
Assembly District: 37
Senate District: 19
Congressional District: 24
Project Lead/Grantee:
Land Trust for Santa Barbara County (Michael Feeney 805-966-4520)
For more information, visit scwrp.org
This project enhanced and expanded wetland habitat throughout the 34.41 acres owned by the Department of Fish and Wildlife in the Goleta Slough Ecological Reserve.
Totaling 440-acres, the Goleta Slough Ecological Reserve includes a variety of habitat types addressed through this project including: estuarine, riverine, and palustrine wetlands; coastal bluff scrub; introduced grassland; coastal sage scrub; and Southern coastal oak woodland. Species include ducks, shorebirds, rails, herons, raptors, mice, voles, raccoons, weasels, skunk, snakes, and invertebrates.
The Slough’s history involves the diking and filling of extensive areas of salt marsh and alluvial fan, the realignment of the Slough’s creeks and their channelization, and the destruction of upland habitats within and adjacent to the Slough. This project aimed to take steps towards restoring the Slough’s wetland habitats to ecologically functioning and thriving systems.
