Completed Projects / Planning / Restoration

Sespe Cienega

(2020-2021) Sespe Cienega Restoration and Public Access Planning Project Aerial photo of the Sespe Cienaga, including the complicated network of historic watercress beds, agricultural fields, riparian and wetland areas, and…

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April 18, 2022
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Aerial photo of the Sespe Cienaga, including the complicated network of historic watercress beds, agricultural fields, riparian and wetland areas, and the main channel of the Santa Clara River.
Completed Projects / Education and Outreach / Restoration

Wetlands Recovery Project

(2017-2019) Wetlands Recovery Project Sespe Cienaga Habitat Restoration Project A student from Briggs School planting sedges in the perennial wetland. Friends of the Santa Clara River contracted SCRC to restore…

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April 16, 2022
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A year later, the garden is filling in and the native plants are thriving.
Ongoing Projects / Restoration

Fillmore

2019 – ongoing Fillmore Arundo Removal at the Sespe Cienaga, Proposition 1 Funded Restoring a Native Ecosystem Working with University of California, Santa Barbara, this project will remove 175 acres…

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April 16, 2022
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An overview of the Sespe Cienaga project site including historic channelized watercress and agricultural fields, the Fillmore Fish Hatchery (photo right), and very dense monotypic giant reed growth neighboring river scrub habitats (photo left).
Ongoing Projects / Restoration

North Shiells Property

2020 - ongoing North Shiells Property Invasive Plant Removal and Wetland Restoration Neighboring the Sespe Cienaga Introduction The Santa Clara River Conservancy is conducting non-native invasive plant removal and associated…

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March 9, 2022
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Looking across the complex wetland features of the north Shiell’s project site.