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Laguna Canyon Foundation outlines restoration, education and Parcel 5 prairie work
Summary
The Laguna Canyon Foundation summarized its conservation work, volunteer programs, school outreach and a 65-acre Parcel 5 restoration project aimed at restoring native coastal sage scrub and reintroducing species such as the Pacific pocket mouse.
Scott Thomas, executive director of Laguna Canyon Foundation, told the Laguna Woods City Council on June 18 that the nonprofit has shifted from its origins in land-protection protests to long-term conservation, restoration and community education across 22,000 acres in the South Coast Wilderness.
The foundation’s work includes weekly volunteer trail stewardship and habitat restoration, an elementary-school outreach program that brings Title I students to Barber’s Lake and other sites, a native plant nursery and camera-based wildlife monitoring. "We're…
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