Whittier Channel Restoration

The project will collaborate with a number of local schools and non-profit organizations to provide experiential opportunities for students and community members at the project site. These partners include the UCSB nonprofit student group “Your Children’s Trees”, Kids in Nature II, Santa Barbara Audubon Society, Department of Water Resources Urban Streams Program, The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County, and local community members.

Once the channel banks have been graded to a more natural slope, project partners will host a series of restoration events where community members and student groups will propagate locally sourced seeds, plant and irrigate riparian and wetland seedlings, and remove and control non-native plants.