Press Releases

Patag­o­nia: Wit­ness to Wildlife Program

An inter­ac­tive com­mu­nity hike in the San Gabriel – Cas­taic habi­tat linkage

Sat­ur­day, August 29, 2009

8:30 AM

Con­tact: SCV Green Pres­i­dent Dianne Erskine-​Hellrigel

SCV Green is a new Land Trust ded­i­cated to open space and land con­ser­va­tion in the Santa Clarita Val­ley of the South­ern California’s South Coast Ecore­gion. As its first pub­lic event SCV Green will be host­ing a Wit­ness to Wildlife event for Patag­o­nia in the San Gabriel – Cas­taic habi­tat cor­ri­dor in Soledad Canyon near Santa Clarita. Part­ners include the Com­mu­nity Hik­ing Club, SC Wild­lands and Wookey Works Productions.

The link­ages form­ing the South Coast Ecore­gion were designed by nature. They were then iden­ti­fied and mapped out by sci­en­tists. Now it’s the local community’s turn to decide what these places mean to us and what we want them to be in rela­tion­ship to the places we live in.

The hike will be a 3 mile pro­gram along the Pacific Crest Trail, and will start at the National For­est Service’s Indian Canyon Trail­head at the inter­sec­tion of Indian Canyon Road and Soledad Canyon Road at 8:30 AM. Activ­i­ties will be set up along the trail to cre­ate an inter­ac­tive story telling expe­ri­ence with par­tic­i­pants. This is designed to develop con­cepts and ideas for what the habi­tat cor­ri­dor is in the imag­i­na­tion of local com­mu­nity members.

This will be a fun day for groups of friends and fam­ily and the con­tent gen­er­ated will be used to raise aware­ness for this impor­tant habi­tat cor­ri­dor through­out the region. Light refresh­ments will be pro­vided at the end of the hike, but par­tic­i­pants should bring sun screen, a hat and extra water if needed. The National For­est Ser­vice requires a $5 day-​pass for park­ing, which can be pur­chased at the gen­eral store just before the Trail­head on Soledad Canyon Road.

Pho­tos of ani­mals within the cor­ri­dor are avail­able from Dianne Erskine-​Hellrigel.

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Make SCV Green Your Valentine!

Art, Wine and Choco­late on Feb­ru­ary 13, 2010

SANTA CLARITA, CA — Jan­u­ary 23, 2010 — SCV Green invites all who love the Santa Clarita Valley’s open spaces and wild­lands to an evening wine-​and-​chocolate recep­tion and silent art auc­tion from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. on Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 13, 2010, at a Vic­to­rian home in Newhall’s Happy Val­ley neigh­bor­hood. The silent auc­tion will fea­ture local plein-​air artists’ works illus­trat­ing our region’s nat­ural beauty. Plein-​air, or “open-​air” artists paint out­side in a nat­ural envi­ron­ment, rather than in the con­fines of a studio.

Santa Clarita’s All Corked Up is advis­ing on wine pair­ings, and tea and cof­fee will also be available.

While SCV Green hopes both to pro­mote local artists and raise funds for this year’s oper­at­ing expenses, the group also intends to enlist sup­port for a locally-​driven pri­vate land trust that will help keep wild places wild, wildlife cor­ri­dors con­nected and scenic vis­tas undis­turbed. Dur­ing the evening, SCV Green board mem­bers will give a short talk about the wild lands of the Santa Clara River water­shed and what a pri­vate land trust can do in part­ner­ship with pub­lic agen­cies such as the Santa Mon­ica Moun­tains Con­ser­vancy and the City of Santa Clarita Open Space District.

SCV Green is a new local non-​profit land trust and wild land con­ser­va­tion orga­ni­za­tion, formed to advo­cate for and acquire unde­vel­oped land in the Santa Clara River water­shed, and to pro­mote water­shed sus­tain­abil­ity and wildlife habi­tat cor­ri­dor preser­va­tion. For direc­tions to the event and more infor­ma­tion, please RSVP to Dianne Erskine-​Hellrigel, SCV Green President.