Blog Posts by Alane
Here are blogged musings from our volunteers. Depending on how you access this collection, it will include posts about a specific site or about general issues. Click on the title bar of a post in order to open it up.
We told you there was more radish! [Bayview Hill]
17 July 2008 - 00:04, Alane said:
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A small but determined group ascended Bayview Hill on Saturday morning, July 12th to do battle with the remaining radish around the radio tower. The radish plants had grown a lot since our last visit and were covered with seed pods. Fortunately, very few seeds had matured. The ground was dry and hard, so we were surprised at how often we got the radish roots, but we piled the truck bed high. Good riddance!
Our reward, besides a much improved area for native plants, was seed collection. We hunted and gathered seeds from Soap plant (Chlorogalum pomeridianum), Bee plant (Scrophularia californica) and Tufted hairgrass (Deschampsia caespitposa). The seeds will be used to grow seedlings at the nursery for planting in natural areas.
As always, it’s beautiful up on the hill. It’s golden like most California hills this time of year, and it feels far away from the City even though the City is RIGHT THERE. (The views are breathtaking.) Isn’t that a good reason to visit Bayview Hill? We hope to see you up there sometime soon.
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High on native grasses [Bayview Hill]
12 May 2008 - 17:07, Alane said:
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Saturday, May 10th was one of the most beautiful days we’ve had on Bayview Hill, and that’s saying a lot because that is one beautiful hill. It was sunny and warm with a cool, mellow breeze.
We gathered seeds, mostly from grasses such as Purple Needle Grass (Nassella pulchra), California Barley (Hordeum brachyantherum), Blue Wild Rye (Elymus glaucus), and Onion Grass (Melica californica). We saw non-native grasses, including Wild Oats (Avena barbata) and Ripgut Brome (Bromus diandrus).
We also cleared European radish from around the radio tower (don’t worry, there’s more), and were treated to a man climbing the tower to change light bulbs up there. A hawk landed on the tower BELOW him.
If you like watching the wind move over grassy meadows and lots of yarrow and poppies in bloom, among other earthly delights, I recommend a visit to Bayview Hill right about now. Enjoy.
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