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Moss Beach’s Vallemar Bluff Coastal Prairie Habitat Restoration Update 2020

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PRESS RELEASE. Sunday, Dec. 6th, 2020 from the Midcoast Community Council.

Vallemar Bluff Habitat Restoration Update 2020

The grassland on Vallemar Bluff just north of Julianna in Moss Beach is rare Coastal Prairie habitat that will be restored and protected by a Conservation Easement as part of the approval of four new homes on Vallemar St. in 2019.

During 2020, the restoration team has been conducting invasive plant management and seed collection and propagation.  Major restoration tasks at the site during the first two weeks in December will require some heavy equipment (supervised by biologists) and will include:

  • Removal of ice plant (~6,400 sf), ornamental shrubs, and wood chips.
  • Recontouring of mounded soil.
  • Planting ~ 7,400 native plants of seven different species, which Go Native propagated from site-collected seed.

Due to the dry weather forecast, the new plantings will be irrigated this first season.  Restoration work will continue over the next four years.

 

More on the History of the Vallemar Bluff Development on the Midcoast Community Committee Website

Vallemar Bluff lies along the spectacular rocky shoreline north of Juliana, west of Vallemar, in Moss Beach.  The undeveloped 2.5-acre property is zoned RM/CZ (Resource Management/Coastal Zone) and has popular trails, a cypress grove, and rare coastal prairie habitat.

 

 

The grasslands of Vallemar Bluff are an increasingly rare native plant community known as ‘Coastal Prairie’. Some very rare plants grow here including “coast yellow leptosiphon” which grows nowhere else in the world.

Local Botanist Toni Corelli letter and slides Dec 2015.

 

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