Students install a protection cage around a newly planted oak. Photo by Nancy Wilcox.

Environment / Nature

Students plant oaks at Pacheco Creek Reserve

Local kids learn about and restore oak woodland next to Highway 152.

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Agriculture

STRAW Returns to Gonzales Ranch with Local Students

Students and Teachers Restoring a Watershed (STRAW) continues restoration planting with local students on a working cattle ranch. Interested community members are invited to participate.

Jose Rocha, Maria Gonzales, Maria Castro, and Yahir Martinez, 4th graders from R.O. Hardin Elementary School prep the ground for planting a tree at the Gonzales Ranch restoration project.

Agriculture

Local Students Help Restore Nature on Working Lands

Students from Tres Pinos and R.O. Hardin Elementary schools, San Benito High School, and Pacheco 4-H Club, along with teachers, parent volunteers, and community members planted native trees and shrubs along the Pajaro River

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Agriculture

Students aid restoration efforts

Volunteers plant trees to shore up a local creekside

Photo by Kristi Parker Johnson

Agriculture

River restoration creates critter highway

Pajaro River restoration project creates safe corridor for wildlife to travel between mountain ranges