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BTN Professional Consulting |
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Back to Natives Restoration
can provide your organization with habitat restoration services,
volunteer training, and environmental education (like scout
programs, lectures, workshops and guided hikes). We also
offer landscape design consulting! |
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PRESENTATIONS |
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Back to Natives is available to present to businesses, community
groups, home owners associations, and government agencies
on almost any topic concerning native plants, biodiversity
and volunteerism. Some topics we cover:
- Biodiversity and Why We Care!
- The Color Wheel of the Year: Native Plants throughout
the Seasons
- Orange County Butterflies and their Host Plants
- Back to Native: Alternatives to Traditional Landscape
Plants
- Habitat Gardening for Butterflies and Birds
- Native American uses of Native Plants
- Utilizing Volunteers for Resource Management
We are grateful for the opportunity to help educate your
group, but we do request that you make a donation to Back
to Natives, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, to help offset
the costs of staff time and transportation.
We also offer prepared presentations for elementary, junior
and high school students. Elementary school presentations
are based on the California State Science Standards for
each grade level.
Cost: $50/presentation (maximum 35 students). |
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INTERPRETIVE HIKES & WALKS |
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Back to Natives Naturalists have many years of experience
in leading interpretive (educational) hikes and walks for
audiences of all kinds. Our Naturalists are certified by
the National Association of Interpretation as Interpretive
Guides. We are available to lead interpretive hikes and
walks for business and community groups, as well as non-profit
and government agencies (including City, County, State or
Federal land managers) on almost any natural history topic.
Some interpretive themes include:
- Orange County Butterflies and their Host Plants
- Native American uses of Native Plants
- Solstice & Equinox Walks
- Wildflower Walks
We are grateful for the opportunity
to help educate your group, but we do request that you make
a donation to Back to Natives, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization,
to help offset the costs of staff time and transportation.
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RESTORATION VOLUNTEER TRAINING |
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to Natives Restoration can provide training and recruitment
for restoration volunteers for your organization!. We will
educate volunteers in dry restoration practices. Dry restoration
is weed abatement and seeding where applicable, as water
is a scarce resource.
Each training session will focus on specific aspects of
the restoration process from rudimentary tool identification
and tool and trail safety training, to non native weed identification
and native species identification, proper site entry/exit
protocol as well as mechanical/physical abatement techniques
to reduce soil disturbance and possible weed seed germination.
"If you don't know it, don't pull it!
Current Clients Include: United States Forest Service, Trabuco
Ranger District of the Cleveland National Forest.
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Theatre in the Park, Theatre
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DIRECTOR NEEDED!
Back to Natives Restoration has developed and is promoting
a community development project to perform conservation
themed plays and theatrical presentations at Orange County
Nature Centers, Wilderness Parks and the Cleveland National
Forest.
Through partnerships in the community with Parks, Nature
Centers, University of California Irvine faculty and private
citizens we hope to plant the seed of conservation, sustainable
living, habitat restoration, volunteerism and community
involvement throughout Orange County. The staff at Back
to Natives believes that the best way to save habitat is
"one person at a time." We recognize that you influence
the choices others make through your example.
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LANDSCAPE DESIGN CONSULTING |
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Are you ready to SAVE MONEY
on water and landscape maintenance?
Whether your goal is to draw more butterflies or birds to
your yard, save water, reduce pesticide use, or to showcase
color throughout the year, we can help!
Back to Natives believes that there is an appropriate -
and beautiful - native plant to replace any commercially
available plant at the local nursery. Back to Natives can
work with you to develop a landscape plan that will please
your senses and fit your lifestyle.
By landscaping your yard with native plants, you do more
than save water and provide habitat for animals. You educate
your friends, family and neighbors about native plants and
their benefits.
Back to Natives uses the profits earned from landscaping
your home or business to continue our environmental education
programs, and help restore wild, open spaces. When you pay
us to develop and implement a landscape plan, you are providing
habitat for animals in your backyard and in an
open space near you. |
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See our landscape portfolio!
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CLASSES and WORKSHOPS |
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Native
Certification Class. Learn to ID - to the
genus level - Orange County native plants by
community. This 6 week course takes students to
locations throughout OC, covering the coastal sage
scrub, chaparral, oak woodland, grassland, wetland,
and coastal strand/bluff plant communities.
$60/student (min. 10)
- Native Container
Gardening Workshop. Create a mini plant community
using container friendly natives. One day workshop
includes all materials – container, soil, plants, etc.
$60/student (min. 10)
- Native Plant
Garden Maintenance. Learn how to maintain your
native garden. Incorporates planning for height, spread
and water requirements. Covers commonly used native
plants and describes their individual capacity for pruning,
accidental over or under watering, and ease of propagation.
$10/student (min 10)
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