By Phil McKenna Naples is the backbone of the eastern Gaviota Coast. It is 2 miles from Santa Barbara County’s Urban Limit Line that creates the boundary between the city of Goleta and the rural lands of the Gaviota Coast. […]
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GCC Encourages your Participation in the Hollister Ranch Planning Process – You’re Invited to Share Your Ideas! The HRCAP Planning Team would like to thank you for staying involved with this planning effort. The State and Planning team have been
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By Andrea Hoot On the most recent Gaviota Coast Conservancy field trip, we visited Santa Barbara Natives, which is a plant nursery located on the property of La Paloma Ranch. The drive up the canyon road was stunning, and the
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By Phil McKenna I recently spent a February afternoon hiking at Baron Ranch with friends. It was a beautiful day; the sun was warm, the air cool. The front country of the Santa Ynez Mountains can be quite breezy, especially
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By Janet Koed March 22 is World Water Day with the theme of “The Value of Water“ Santa Barbara Channelkeeper’s Watershed Brigade is organizing a March Challenge. We all agree that ensuring our coastline is litter-free is an important part
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By Mike Brown Jalama County Park is not your typical county park. Wedged between the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve and Vandenburg Air Force Base on the Gaviota Coast, it’s a slice of rural California for day trippers, RV campers,
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By Reeve Woolpert One way to see terrain is as a water collector or watershed — let your eyes flow over the landscape like raindrops. The principal contours of the Gaviota Coast mark the many pathways taken by precipitation as
By Janet Koed Many years ago, in high school, I took an occupational placement test. The results suggested I should become a forest ranger or a lighthouse keeper. This profile suits me well for walks on isolated beaches during times
By Greg Helms One of the great assets of the Gaviota Coast — and of our work to preserve it — is the biological richness created by its combination of sea and land features. As a volunteer board member with
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By Janet Koed You never quite know what you’re going to get when you sign up for a paddle up the coast from Haskell’s Beach and that was true for the nineteen of us on a guided kayak trip on
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