Restoration and Conservation at UCSB’s Coil Oil Point Reserve on Zoom

UC Santa Barbara’s Coal Oil Point Reserve encompasses 170 acres of protected habitat for research, education, and outreach. Land and Resource Steward, Kipp Callahan, will discuss the reserve’s habitat restoration program which restores degraded habitat to better support rare coastal ecosystems and has successfully restored more than 20 acres.

Coal Oil Point Reserve is the first place to recover a previously abandoned nesting site for Western Snowy Plovers, a threatened species of shorebird that nests on the beach. Conservation Specialist, Jessica Nielsen, will talk about the reserve’s Snowy Plover Recovery Program.