Caring for Your Land

Community links:
marinwater.org – Marin Municipal Water District’s helpful information and links for Conservation under Gardening and Planting

Some of the most hazardous and invasive fire-fuel species that grow in Homestead open space and residential areas are blue gum eucalyptus, French and Scotch broom, Monterey pine, pampas grass. Please weed!

Sudden Oak Death (SOD) is a forest pathogen that threatens California Live Oaks. Spread during years of significant rain, hosted by Bay laurels, it is killing oaks in the Land Trust and throughout Homestead. The pathogen was first identified by the Forest Pathology Lab at UC Berkeley. The Lab is a source of information on SOD treatment, testing and management. They run SOD Blitzes each spring where citizen scientists (you) can collect samples of potentially infected bays to submit to the lab for analysis. Results are published in the lab’s SOD Map app. Several years’ worth of data on trees tested in Homestead are plotted on the SOD Map.