SGERC has been cleaning up Hwy. 84 with a Caltrans encroachment permit since 2007. It was time to renew our signs along the roadway! As part of the Adopt-A-Highway program we've adopted 8 miles from [...] Read more

After a nearly three year hiatus, our team of intrepid volunteers gathered in Cuesta La Honda to tackle new and old pampas/jubata grass plants. Evidence of the heroic work this group has done is the [...] Read more

Now that the Kick Pampass sheriffs have rounded up most of the Jubata plants in town, a new invasive has arrived to challenge the authorities. Dittricia graveolens (aka Stinkwort) is rapidly moving [...] Read more

Flowering pampas grass plants (photo by Neil Panton). It’s hard to see what’s not there! As you drive along our coast, it’s easy to see Jubata/Pampas grass taking over hillsides and ranges. [...] Read more

Volunteers wanted to remove Pampas & Jubata Grass from our San Gregorio Valley. Let’s control these grasses so they won’t spread as they have in Pescadero, Half Moon Bay, and along the coast. [...] Read more

Pampas grass Or this? Pampas free Many consider Pampas grass (Cortaderia jubata) to be an ornamental, and it is. Although it can be quite beautiful, it’s also extremely invasive, and can take over [...] Read more

By Kathleen Dickey Scotch broom flowers, courtesy of Z. Akulova, Calflora. This time of year there’s hardly a drive I take up and over highway 84 without saying to myself, “Got to do something [...] Read more