Nature Links
- Local
- North Campus Open Space (formerly the Ocean Meadows golf course up to Ellwood Mesa and beyond to the Sandpiper golf course next to Bacara)
- UCSB’s information clearinghouse about what is happening and will happen there: http://www.openspace.vcadmin.ucsb.edu (the “Planning” tab–not updated Sept. 2013 to March 2014–may ultimately be a page to watch)
- “Nature Saturdays” Apr.-Sept. 2014 are sponsored by the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity & Ecological Restoration
- Beach erosion during the Jan. 2016 El Nino at the Bacara snack bar, a popular destination for outings from WCP
- History of Campbell Ranch (the Devereux area purchased by UCSB in 2009)
- Sept. 2012 Edhat.com article by the Urban Hikers (Stacey Wright & Peter Hartmann). lavishly illustrated
- Coal Oil Point reserve
- Video of Devereux slough breaching, Feb. 16, 2009
- The Last Barge from the Marine Terminal for Platform Holly, Feb. 22, 2012
- Video histories of the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill (which spawned the modern environmental movement)
- Coronodo/Ellwood Mesa Butterfly Preserve
- KCET page with videos and links
- Ellwood Mesa Open Space page, with maps (by the City of Goleta, which runs the preserve)
- Land Trust for SB County page, with links to Xerxes Society pages about butterfly lifecycle
- Best visiting on sunny days when the temperature is above 57 degrees. Season: Halloween to Valentine’s Day.
- Photo pages on edhat: Jan. 2013 in motion, clusters; map of butterfly count, 1989-2014
- Jan. 31, 2014 Mission & State article about fluctuations in the annual butterfly count at Coronado preserve: 17,150 in 2012, but only 2,355 in 2013.
- Devereux Slough habitat restoration
- Million Dollar Grant for Slough/Wetland Restoration, Dec. 2010
- West Campus bluffs path preservation (Feb. 1, 2011 Independent); (Apr. 19, 2011 opening); 4/2/2012 new restoration grant)
- Ocean Meadows Golf Course: History of developing the flood plain;
- Chris Sandoval’s efforts to restore Snowy Plover habitat at Coal Oil Point Reserve (COPR), Nov. 29, 2016
- Photos & video of Devereux Slough breaching in Dec. 2009 (with data from other years’ first breaches)
- GoletaHistory.com: What’s a “goleta” (schooner)? Where was “our” Nazi POW camp? What about that Ellwood sub attack?
- Barndale & Rio Grande Oil Co. filling station (from 1929, on Hollister near Bacara)
“Architectural Influence” (Apr. 25, 2015): about filling station motifs picked up by Ellwood School and the SB Zoo - History of Mescaltitlan Island — that hump between the airport and Goleta Beach Park
- History of aviation & the airport in Goleta–two original hangars slated for demolition in 2014
- Barndale & Rio Grande Oil Co. filling station (from 1929, on Hollister near Bacara)
- History of Isla Vista: Jennifer Hildreth Strand, “Evolution of a Boom Town: Isla Vista, California, 1915-1968” (UCSB MA Thesis, 1987), 149 pages.
- Isla Vista Recreation and Park District
- Gray Whale count at Coal Oil Point
- SB Museum of Natural History
- West Campus Stables
- Old Town Goleta (Hollister between Fairview and Patterson)
- User photos at Santa Barbara’s online news community edhat.com
- Walk on the Ellwood bluffs, March 2015: herons, lizards, pelicans, plover
- Coal-Oil-Point sunset & birds, Dec. 2013; natural seeps from the air
- Tidepools off of Coal Oil Point, Jan. 2012
- Early Morning Refections in Devereux Slough, Sept. 2011
- This year, there were two pairs of seasonal swans hanging out in the slough, July 2011
- Hummingbirds, Butterflies and Owls at the Ellwood Monarch Preserve, Jan. 2009
- Cormorants, Egrets, Terns, Brown Pelicans, Ducks, and an Ibis enjoying a brim-full slough after the first rain of the season, Oct. 2009
- Coots, herons, ducks and a swan amidst beautiful reflections on Devereux Slough, Dec. 2008
- Lake Los Carneros: Super bird pics May 22, 2012; a few more May 27, 2012
- Knapp’s Castle on East Camino Cielo, not far from Painted Cave Road: Jan. 29, 2012 sunset
(private land but public access). Directions (30+ min. drive): go up highway 154 to East Caminio Cielo (over the crest of the hill), turn right, go 3.0 miles (about 1+ miles after Painted Cave Rd–or turn off 154 onto Painted Cave’s other end, pass the cave and the “Jane Fonda” community, until you hit E. Camino Cielo, then right 1 mile). A great place to take guests. aerial view.
- North Campus Open Space (formerly the Ocean Meadows golf course up to Ellwood Mesa and beyond to the Sandpiper golf course next to Bacara)
- Regional
- Aerial photos of the California coastline
- Los Padres National Forest website
- Nojoqui Falls Park (26 miles up 101, just a short hike to an ektopic waterfall)
- Pacific Crest Trail
- Santa Barbara Zoo: 12/11 Penguin with Teva shoe; 1/12 favorite animal pix; 1/12 new baby giraffe, 4/12 aerial photo of giraffes.
- Santa Maria Museum of Natural History
- U.S. Ocean Commission (commission expired in 2004)
- Carpinteria State Beach: photos at low tide, Jan. 2013 (there’s nothing here you can’t find at our Coal Oil Point!); photos of landscape