Save the date for Saturday, October 5! Volunteers are needed from 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. to help plant trees that will secure the future of the Goleta Butterfly Grove at Ellwood Mesa. Throughout summer and fall 1200 new eucalyptus, 800 native trees, and several thousand flowering shrubs and wetland plants will be planted.

Ellwood Mesa is one of the West’s most important winter sites for migrating monarch butterflies. In recent decades, drought and storms have damaged the forests where monarchs seek shelter, and their populations have declined. Join the City of Goleta as we undertake a nationally-significant conservation project to restore and improve the monarch butterfly habitat for generations to come.

Tools will be provided, please bring the following:

• Comfortable walking shoes
• Reusable water bottle
• Sunscreen
• Hat
• Snacks
• Gloves if you have them
• Whatever else you need for your comfort

Let us know you are coming – sign up here. Meeting location: gate at the end of Santa Barbara Shores Drive.