MGP Stewardship

MGP Stewardship
Website for personal use by MGP Resource Ecologist, organizing important links and information

Educate and Volunteer
powerpoint slides (empty) resources - learn about ecology (empty) upcoming volunteer days (empty) volunteer email templates (empty) volunteerhub site
Goal: Educate interested people in ecology and restoration, and encourage environmental activism and advocacy.

☑️host regular volunteer days

🔲offer ecology workshop

🔲reach out to schools/groups

Phenology and LFM
full data entry NPN data entry paper sheets for the field protocol reference literature phenophase photo guide plot locations - need to add data summaries - waiting on data
Goal: Determine if there is a relationship between LFM and phenology. Gather seasonal data for each, to be used for planning burns.

☑️create protocol

☑️choose data collection locations

🔲clearly flag phenology data collection areas

🔲create phenology photo guide

🔲collect data for a year

🔲invite monthly volunteers for data collection

Grassland Monitoring
data entry paper sheets for the field plot locations data summaries
Goal: Determine annual variations in grassland species composition

☑️collect data for 2022 season

🔲enter 2022 data

🔲analyze and share 2022 data

Invasive Species Removal
calflora map to-do excel sheet invasive species resources workday summaries on calflora
Goal: Exterminate priority species from MGP: Cape Ivy, French Broom, Pampass Grass

☑️complete winter 2021/22 french broom removal

🔲dittrichea treatment

🔲hypericum treatment

Nursery
data entry data sheets plot locations data summaries
Goal: Grow grasses for use as seed sources for throwing out after burns or restoration activities.

☑️start growing elygla and stipul

🔲grow brocar

🔲determine which seeds would be helpful in riparian areas

Plant Species List
data entry data sheets plot locations data summaries
Goal: Inventory all the species that live on Martin Griffin Preserve

☑️create plant species list

🔲add other species list to this site