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Spring

Early spring is a good time to give your irrigation system a check-up. Water plants deeply and only as needed. This encourages deep roots and drought tolerance, and discourages weeds, overgrowth, and snails.
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Summer

In early summer, give your leaf blower a vacation; use a rake instead. Leaf blowers blow away mulch and topsoil, and they contribute to air and noise pollution. They are also a fire hazard due to engine heat and sparks.
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About Us

SAFE Landscapes is a project of the Natural Resources Program based in Los Angeles and Ventura County Cooperative Extension.
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Useful Links

Outside Links for More Information about Fire and Invasive Plants: Download the Community Wildfire Protection Plan for the Santa Monica Mountains Los Angeles County Weed Management Area: http://www.lacountywma.org/ LA County Fire Ventura County Fire CalFire U.S.
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Post-fire Vegetation Recovery

While California is, on the whole, a Mediterranean climate system, the sheer size of the state, and the extreme topography, ranging from the lowest to the highest points in the contiguous United States, means, that there is a huge diversity of plant communities - and hence, a diversity of fire regim...
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Download Guidebook and Fact Sheets

Download the Southern California SAFE Landscapes Guidebook Click here for the SAFE Landscapes in the WUI Fact Sheet Click here for the Making Your Property Fire Safe Fact Sheet UCCE Collaborated on the Roadmap to Fire Safety in the Santa Monica Mountains Retired UCCE Specialist Steve Quarles' Fact S...
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PISCES Distribution Maps

The fish species location information on this website is derived from the PISCES Database of the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, from a database version obtained on 26 February 2014.
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