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Join the Creekspirits for our first luncheon of 2024! David Gress will share about his experience managing the urban forest in and around Santa Barbara and share how trees benefit local wildlife.
Lisa Stratton - Changes at UCSB’s North Campus Space
Lisa Stratton has been the Director of Ecosystem Management for UCSB's Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (CCBER) since 2005.
As the manager of the campus lagoon and other open space areas on campus, she has been active in pursuing opportunities to improve water quality and provide habitat through bioswales and treatment wetlands. She received her PhD at University of Hawaii-Manoa, her Masters from University of Wisconsin-Madison and my undergraduate degree at Stanford. She has been a change agent on the landscape committee since the inception of UCSB's sustainability commitment and worked towards promoting sustainable, non-invasive, low water landscapes that celebrate UCSB's unique location within a matrix of natural habitats and wetlands.
DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC EMERGENCY AND TO KEEP EVERYONE SAFE, THE CREEKSPIRITS SPEAKERS MEETING SCHEDULED FOR APRIL8 WILL BE CANCELLED. AS PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED THERE WILL BE NO MEETING IN MAY. THE NEXT MEETING OF CREEKSPIRITS, WHICH WOULD NORMALLY BE HELD ON JUNE 10 WILL BE RE-EVALUATED NEXT MONTH. PLEASE STAY SAFE.
Our March meeting will highlight a presentation by Rosie Bishop, the Lead County Park Naturalist at Lake Cachuma Recreation Area.
Rosey Bishop grew up in the foothills of Santa Barbara and has always had a love and curiosity for the outdoor areas and wildlife around her. After graduating from Santa Barbara High School, she moved north and attended UC Santa Cruz. After graduating, she returned to her hometown to begin a job as a Naturalist at the Rancho Alegre Outdoor School, known by many in the area as “Science Camp”. She was drawn to this opportunity because she had attended the program as a sixth grader and had amazing memories of the experience. For the next four years, Rosey educated thousands of students from the Central Coast area all about the fascinating wonders of our natural world, while encouraging environmental stewardship. In 2012, Rosey became an Assistant Naturalist for Santa Barbara County Parks at Cachuma Lake. She got a boat captains license to lead Nature Cruises on the lake, developed interesting nature walks, activities and evening fireside programs. In 2015, Rosey was promoted to lead Park Naturalist. Since then, she has continued to create and offer interesting, fun and high quality outdoor experiences to thousands of local and traveling visitors.
February will bring another beautiful program by our own Ines Roberts and our annual Valentine’s Day Tea social. Rumor has it that Ines will be showing images from one of her recent sky diving adventures. Sky Diving??? You have to be kidding. Come and see but be sure to RSVP early as space is limited as you know. Ethel will be taking reservations.
All members of the Board of Directors are requested to be prompt. The Annual Meeting is an important one to set goals and objectives for the coming year.
Sue Eisaguirre, founder and director of NatureTrack, and Holly Cline, co-director of the NatureTrack Film Festival, will present information about the exciting NatureTrack Film Festival coming up for it’s 3rd year March 20-22, 2020, in Los Olivos. “Igniting Passion for Nature Through Film” the festival will bring movies from 20 countries ranging from Documentaries and Biographies to Adventure, Animation and more - all proceeds support NatureTrack, a 501(c)3 non-profit that provides cost-free outdoor field trips for Santa Barbara County school-aged children, utilizing local trails and beaches throughout the county.
Our speaker this month will be a return of popular Greg Gorga, ED of the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum. Greg will dazzle us with some little known facts about the history of oil in Santa Barbara. If you haven’t seen their new exhibit of oil at the Maritime Museum, or even if you have you will want to attend this very informative and entertaining presentation at Creekspirit.
The speaker this month will be Chet Work, ED Land Trust of Santa Barbara. Chet has spent the better part of the past ten years working to ensure that family farms and ranches in Wyoming and Idaho continue to thrive in a landscape that has been under significant development pressure. Mr. Work holds a Masters of Environmental Management from Duke University and conducted post-graduate study in natural history and environmental education at the Teton Science School in Jackson, Wyoming. He is a graduate of the rigorous Executive Leadership Program through the Land Trust Alliance, the umbrella organization for the 1,700 land trusts throughout the country
Our speaker will be Betsy Green, a writer for more than 25 years. As a freelancer, she contributed articles to newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and abroad. She specializes in writing about local history, architecture, and the environment. She researched and wrote about the history of more than 85 homes, and was responsible for nominating five properties to the National Register of Historic Places.
Green is a former associate editor of Reader's Digest and staff editor of World Book Encyclopedia.
She has given presentations in Santa Barbara at the Historical Museum, the Maritime Museum, the Genealogy Society, the Yacht Club, the Woman's Club, Rotary clubs, and other groups.
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