Native Revegetation: The Sustainable Erosion Control BMP Challenging Conventional Seeding Practices

Sunday November 7 - Field Trip 11:00am - 4:30pm 

Monday, November 8 and Tuesday, November 9, 2010 8:30am - 5:30pm 

North Tahoe Event Center 

Kings Beach, California 

1. Read the CA Tahoe Conservancy Revegetation Guidance Document (RGD) will be our starting point, so download it now and become familiar with it! Go to California Tahoe Conservancy: Soil Erosion Control Program at  

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Reminder: We will be in the Sierra Nevada so have chains in your vehicle and bring winter outer wear. We revert to standard time on the first Sunday in November, the 7th.

Questions?

If we can be of assistance, please contact Cyndi Brinkhurst at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call (530) 272-2407 until Sat.  Cell (530) 320-9631 Sunday - Wednesday.  We look forward to seeing you all on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe early next week.

Retraction / Clarification

Since the publication of the Fall 2010 Newsletter, it has been fairly brought to my attention that my comments contained in the “Native Revegetation” Technology Transfer Workshop-boosting article “Can This Land Be Saved” unintentionally perpetrated a disservice to certain parties involved in the ongoing stabilization efforts at Smugglers’ Gulch on the U.S.-Mexico Border Fence.

I referenced a visit to the Border Fence project in the summer of 2009, illustrated with a photo taken at that time.  I was not aware that a far more comprehensive revegetation effort was mounted during the winter of 2009/2010 that did indeed grow more than “a blade of grass”.  I should have dug even deeper when researching the sensitive project, notwithstanding the requirement to file Freedom of Information Act barriers that were thrown up to discourage such inquiry.

All consulting and contractor parties who I have talked with over the past 3 years attest to the poor soil challenges that confront anyone attempting to re-establish native vegetation on the drastically disturbed soils encountered on much of the Border Fence project.  Kudos to those IECA members involved who were part of the “far more comprehensive revegetation effort” that brought success in the spring of 2010.