Vegetation Monitoring @ Stony Point Day 1
Category
Admission
- Free
Location
32°46'18.8"N 117°13'41.2"W
Summary
Description
Join San Diego Bird Alliance staff in tracking vegetation growth at the California Least Tern nesting preserves in Mission Bay.
The monitoring helps to inform enhancement efforts for the future to ensure that the habitat is suitable for nesting in the coming years. All while volunteers have to opportunity to build professional development skills by learning vegetation monitoring sampling methods.
Come prepared in close-toed shoes, long pants, hat, suncreen, etc. No previous experience is required, we'll go over the protocol together and provide all the tools needed.
Example of quadrat vegetation sampling in South Bay
Event Start Time: 9 AM
Event End Time: 12 PM though you are welcome to leave as needed
DIRECTIONS TO STONY POINT
Meeting location: 32°46'18.8"N 117°13'41.2"W
Park at the Fiesta Island Dog Park (32°46'38.8"N 117°13'23.6"W)
- Drive onto Fiesta Island. Keep left at the fork. You’ll cut across a bit of the island, and then emerge on the other side where you will be forced to turn left.
- After turning left, look for a parking lot next to the Fiesta Island Dog Park on your right. Park there (this is outside of the entrance to the dog park). If you end up at the Fiesta Island Youth Camp, you are in the wrong place and will need to continue around the island until you approach the dog park.
- Once parked, walk through the gates into the dog park. Keep the water on your right hand side and walk all the way to the end of the dog park. It will be about a 5-10 min walk.
- You will come to a chain link buffer fence nearing the nesting preserve where the gate will be open.
- Continue walking until you reach the nesting preserve gate and meeting location.
Learn more: Help save the endangered California Least Tern.