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Title: Ellwood Nature Preserve in Goleta
Post by: SkierBob on Feb 14, 12, 08:24:44 AM

my friend just sent me these.  shot on 2/12/12

(http://i944.photobucket.com/albums/ad284/Bobalotta/IMG_0688-Compressed.jpg)

(http://i944.photobucket.com/albums/ad284/Bobalotta/IMG_0671-Compressed1.jpg)

(http://i944.photobucket.com/albums/ad284/Bobalotta/IMG_0668-Compressed.jpg)

(http://i944.photobucket.com/albums/ad284/Bobalotta/IMG_0661-Compressed.jpg)

(http://i944.photobucket.com/albums/ad284/Bobalotta/IMG_0689-Compressed.jpg)

Title: Re: Ellwood Nature Preserve in Goleta
Post by: Elk on Feb 14, 12, 08:53:33 AM

Very cool. This is a place I would love to see someday. Thanks SB

Title: Re: Ellwood Nature Preserve in Goleta
Post by: Tomas on Feb 14, 12, 09:18:50 AM

Fascinating

Title: Re: Ellwood Nature Preserve in Goleta
Post by: lagomorphmom on Feb 14, 12, 12:40:33 PM

Just lovely. Back in the day when I did a stint at CSU Long Beach, they used to gather on the bougainvillaea that border the parking lot by the engineering buildings. That was awesome, but not as spectacular as hanging from the trees like the above, WOW!

Title: Re: Ellwood Nature Preserve in Goleta
Post by: Joe Schmoe on Feb 14, 12, 09:23:43 PM

....I wonder where they would go if the invasive Eucalyptus trees weren't there.

Title: Re: Ellwood Nature Preserve in Goleta
Post by: SkierBob on Feb 15, 12, 11:25:02 AM

Yep, good point.  Their native trees in the area would be coastal live oak, but there are very few of them left in very disjunct areas.  In this case, this non-native tree is providing valuable habitat to a charismatic native species, the Monarch.

http://www.monarch-butterfly.com/monarch-migration.html (http://www.monarch-butterfly.com/monarch-migration.html)