The Carrizo Plain: Where the Mountains Meet the Grasslands
Monday, March 2 | 9:30 a.m. – 12 noon
Bethany Congregational Church 556 N. Hope Avenue, Santa Barbara
VISTAS member price: $20; non-member price: $30
Presented by Chuck Graham
Come take a visual journey with writer/photographer Chuck Graham into the Carrizo Plain National Monument, the last of California’s historic grasslands. This is a unique landscape that requires one to slow down, observe, and listen to what the grasslands want to reveal. Chuck has spent 20 years writing about and photographing the flora and fauna of the Plain and its surrounding mountain ranges, the Caliente to the west and the Temblors to the east. The Carrizo Plain gets a lot of attention due to its spectacular wildflower blooms, but its appeal is not just about the flowers. The Carrizo Plain is a wild place like no other. Its sweeping grasslands also support an array of wildlife hidden within seasonal arroyos, badlands, sandstone, and alkali loam. There are more endangered species in the Carrizo Plain than anywhere else in California.