An audience of about 50 members of The Southern California Bluebird Club and the Cavity Conservation Initiative had a jaw-dropping guest speaker at their December monthly meeting. Thirteen year-old Dessi Sieburth, member of the Pasadena Audubon Society, revealed his program to promote dead trees (called snags) for the benefit of birds and other species. […]
Apart from meeting the needs of cyclists, fishermen, runners, birdwatchers, party planners and groups of the elderly and the disabled, Orange County Park Supervising Ranger, Adam Shuck, and staff at the Laguna Niguel Regional Park in southern California, consider their ‘good stewardship’ mandate to protect habitat for birds. Trees are high on the list, and […]
How can a small, all volunteer-run, non-profit like the Cavity Conservation Initiative (CCI) say thank you to a very unexpected, generous and anonymous donor in December? This gift from the sky enables us to open our 2016 calendar with great celebration! To express our gratitude we eagerly assembled for a photo after our January meeting […]
An audience of about 50 members of The Southern California Bluebird Club and the Cavity Conservation Initiative had an unusual guest speaker at their December monthly meeting. Thirteen year-old Dessi Sieburth, member of the Pasadena Audubon Society, revealed his program to promote dead trees (called snags) for the benefit of birds and other species. […]
If you want to remove a dead tree on your property but want to lower the cost, certified arborist, Brian French, is just the man. He’s in Portland, OR, and yes, he does travel for business, even for teaching other arborists! Brian will offer you a win win solution, i.e a win for you and […]
The Cavity Conservation (CCI) was among 550 stake-holders and constituencies that attended the Arbor Foundation’s annual Partners in Community Forestry Conference last week in Denver CO. Program Director, Gillian Martin, was invited to speak about the habitat benefits of dead trees. The honor of such an opportunity was noteworthy given that the conference’s main focus […]
On October 30, the Cavity Conservation Initiative in partnership with West Coast Arborists held its second regional meeting, this time in Riverside, CA, to develop Best Management Practices (BPMs) for tree pruning during the nesting season and to protect habitat for birds. Forty-eight California-based stake holders are now represented on this project. With the except […]
Did you know that a Barn Owl consumes about 1,000 rodents a year? If it raises a family each year, that number could climb into the thousands. And did you know that when we poison rodents, we poison owls and other wildlife that prey on rodents? Snap traps are a better choice and safer for […]
The Cavity Conservation Initiative, in partnership with West Coast Arborists, has organized a ground-breaking 28-person, professional, volunteer task force in southern California to address the problematic issue of tree pruning during the nesting season. Its mission is a response to the widespread harm to nesting birds, an action prohibited by the Federal Bird Migratory Act. […]
Recently wildlife advocates had reason to applaud a crew of tree trimmers from West Coast Arborist who were working in the city of Los Angeles. When the crew discovered nesting birds in a tree that was slated for pruning, they did what advocates wish all tree trimmers would do. They left the vulnerable family of […]
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