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FUN FACTS:
Helping Hands on the Land IRC Land Stewards and Public volunteers have spent a total of 520 man hours alone clearing invasive weeds from Quail Hill, Bommer Canyon, and Agua Chinon this year. These weeds include crops-gone-wild, like Artichoke Thistle and medicinal plants-gone-wild, like Castor Bean. They both come from the Mediterranean and have taken up valuable space that our native plants could live on. But with the help and enthusiasm of volunteers their days here are numbered. 12th Annual Inner-Coastal Cleanup Day During this year's event, 71 Conservancy volunteers rallied together to clean up Black Star Canyon. In Orange County overall, a total of 55,323 pounds of trash was collected and properly disposed. 5,100 pounds (nearly 10 percent) of the total was gathered by Conservancy volunteers. A total of 2,771 people participated in this year’s event in Orange County, and cleaned approximately 64.25 miles of streams and coastline of trash that would otherwise make its way into waterways and the ocean. For a statewide list of results visit http://www.coastal.ca.gov/publiced/ccd/ccd.html. Remembering Fire Season Beware of the pumpkins! Although long term dry conditions and recent fires prove that fire season is really all year long, the greatest risk of catastrophic wildfire continues to be during Santa Ana wind days. More than 90 percent of all acres burned happen during these Red Flag events. A great way to remember the wind season is by checking your local supermarket! Once stores begin to stock up on pumpkins, it's a sure bet that winds will soon start to stir up some seriously dangerous fire conditions. Be cautious and alert, and report suspicious activities to local law enforcement agencies. 
The 2007 Santiago wildfires destroyed more than 28,000 acres of land.
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