Bolsa Chica Land Trust Director of Restoration and Stewardship Beverley Hansen rows across towards the island with a couple of volunteers. To get to the island you need to cross by kayak. Photo Credit: Justin Enriquez
Fish and Wildlife technician Vincent Charles looks across the island at Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve. It would take 3 hours to get most of the weeds out of the island. Photo Credit: Justin Enriquez
Volunteers from Re:Wild and Bolsa Chica Land Trust grab bags and gloves to remove plants from the island. They need to make room for the California Least Tern and Snowy Plover species of birds to nest. Photo Credit: Justin Enriquez
Bags of plants are stored in a black bag and sent off to an area where they are decomposed. Plants like the White Sweet Clover don’t allow for birds like the California Least Tern to nest in these sites where they can be monitored by California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Photo Credit: Justin Enriquez
At the end of the event there was a count of how many bags they had accumulated. And there would be a group photo of the volunteers. Photo Credit: Justin Enriquez
Fish and Wildlife Technician Vincent Charles carries all the bag of plants that were removed from the island and put on the other side of the river. The bags of plants would be dumped in an area where they can be decomposed. Photo Credit: Justin Enriquez
Katy Leach who serves on the Board of Directors at Bolsa Chica Land Trust carries bags of plants that were removed from the island. It is put in an area where it can decompose. Photo Credit: Justin Enriquez
Beverley Hansen and Pete Hendrickson help each other put the invasive weeds in bags. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife put the bags in area where they can decompose. Photo Credit: Justin Enriquez
