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Support the Valley View Preserve!  The Ojai Valley Land Conservancy seeks to raise $650,000 by May 2013 to permanently protect as publicly accessible open space the largest, most visible private parcel remaining in Ojai. The proposed “Valley View Preserve” measures almost 1 mile east to west, and is roughly ½ mile deep. It is a significant part […]

Updated recently, here is a trail map so you can explore the Fuelbreak Trail that sits above the Shelf Road Trail in downtown Ojai.

Check out Ron Singer’s native plant blog below.  Ron Singer manages the OVLC plant nursery and is an avid volunteer. http://ojairambler.wordpress.com/

Make the Ojai Meadows Preserve Accessible to All School is winding down, but community service opportunities abound.  You or someone you know may be interested in a community service project on a section of trail on the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy’s Ojai Meadows Preserve adjacent to Nordhoff High School.  The section in need of work […]

There is a beautiful new bridge in town and it is NOT YET at the Ojai Meadows Preserve.  If you were one of the 100 people who attended the grand opening of the new bridge at the confluence of San Antonio Creek and the Ventura River recently then you witnesses history in the making. Story […]

The Sespe Fly Fishers Club recently recognized Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard’s commitment to preservation of the environment and support for local conservation through direct action in the Ojai Valley. Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, is committed to supporting local conservation efforts. Couinard is also a fly fisherman and member of the Sespe Fly Fishers Club […]

Jim Engel, former Executive Director, at Riverview Trailhead dedication at the Ventura River Preserve. Jim holds a sign of the river bottom circa 1929.   Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear OVLC, happy birthday to you!  In honor of 25 years of conservation in the Ojai Valley the OVLC is […]

Ojai – The California Conservation Corps, Camarillo Crew 22 worked with the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy’s Preserve Manager and volunteers to help save the Wills Canyon trail on the Ventura River Preserve from destruction. Check out the cool soil wrap technique used to stabilize this trail.

The Ventura County Board of Supervisors Proclaims: Eat Local, Buy California Grown Day WHEREAS, California has a rich heritage and is one of the world’s most prolific agricultural regions. California foods are famous for their abundance, diversity, freshness, and high quality.  Buying California-grown food helps local family farmers, California food producers, and California employees and […]

Blank stares. That’s what I get when I tell people I’m a watershed coordinator. The job title even stumped staff at the California Regional Water Quality Control Board this week when I called. The staff person interrogated me for several minutes about what a watershed coordinator does, and then his final question was, “Why?” It’s […]

Girls playing at the Ojai Meadows Preserve Adopt-A-Meadow Program: At The Ojai Meadows Preserve Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to be personally responsible for creating a wildflower meadow? I would tell you how great it feels, but it wouldn’t be the same as feeling it yourself. For those that would like […]

Can you guess what creature made these prints? We are thankful for the beauty that surrounds us.

Greg Gamble was featured on a recent local Surf and River Report on August 10th, 2011. Greg Gamble, Executive Director of the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy (OVLC) gives us a guided tour of the newly established Ventura River Steelhead Preserve in Ventura, CA. More videos about the Ventura River Watershed can be found at www.surfandriverreport.com.

Ojai – This week Lorraine Walter began her three-year tenure as the Ventura River Watershed Coordinator. The Ojai Valley Land Conservancy was awarded a three-year grant to fund the position and is hosting this function from their Ojai Valley office, located at HELP of Ojai’s west campus off of Highway 150.  The idea for the […]

  You may have heard about the coalition advancing the vision of the “Ventura River Parkway” stretching 16 miles from the river’s headwaters to the ocean. Our goal is to connect people with their healthy, functioning river through appropriate and sensitive riverside parks and trails. There are a number of important aspects of this effort, […]

A section of the Ventura River that’s critical habitat for endangered steelhead, and other species is being preserved forever, thanks to a local land conservancy, and some state agencies.  KCLU’s Lance Orozco has the story. Click on link to listen to story (MP3): About the new Ventura River Steelhead Preserve

For Immediate Release – June 21, 2011 Media Inquiries: Greg Gamble, Executive Director, (805) 649-6852 ext.1 New Ventura River Steelhead Preserve Announced As part of its continuing efforts to preserve the entire Ventura River, the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy, on June 17th, successfully completed the purchase of a roughly 1 mile stretch of the Ventura […]

A 12,000 pound log from downtown Ojai was moved to the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy’s Ojai Meadows Preserve near Nordhoff High School to provide habitat for birds and lizards. Thank you Paradise Artists, John Lamar, and T&T Crane Service for making this happen.

Please save May 19th at 3 PM for the grand opening of the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy’s newest trailhead at the Ventura River Preserve.  Join us at the end of Old Baldwin Road off Highway 150.  Click here for the details and directions.

An Expert in Our Midst  Ojai – Last Friday and Saturday the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy’s Conservation Director Brian Stark shared is habitat restoration expertise with scores of professionals from around the State of California.   The Salmonid Restoration Federation is hosting its annual conference this weekend in San Luis Obispo and Brian Stark is front and center […]

The Ojai Valley Land Conservancy has been awarded a 3-year grant to hire a Watershed Coordinator.  The primary responsibility of the Watershed Coordinator will be to work with our Ventura River watershed partners in the development of a watershed management plan.  The grant agreement is being prepared, and after this is complete OVLC will post […]

            We are proud to welcome Rogers, Sheffield & Campbell, LLP (Phil Moncharsh) as new business sponsors of the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy (OVLC).  Phil Moncharsh is one of the founding members of the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy and past OVLC President.  He and his firm want to support conservation efforts in the Ojai Valley […]

The Ojai Valley Land Conservancy would like to welcome and thank Tom Bostrom and his landscape architecture firm for becoming sponsors of the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy! Founded by Tom Bostrom in 1998, Bostrom & Associates Landscape Architecture serves clients with a variety of project needs including public, commercial, institutional, and private estates.  Completed projects […]

The Ojai Valley Land Conservancy was nominated for the Ojai Chamber of Commerce’s Spirit of the Ojai Valley Award! Vote Now (Award #5) by clicking the link below! https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GW95GW6 The Spirit of the Ojai Valley Award This award is for the chamber member who brings more than satisfaction; they give back to the Ojai Valley […]

                                                                  The Ojai Valley Land Conservancy would like to thank and welcome the Law Office of Thomas E. Malley as a 2011 business sponsor. We are pleased to have their support and we hope that you will in turn consider using the Law Office of Thomas E. Malley the next time you need to consult […]

We are proud to welcome Channel Island Sportfishing  owned and operated by Doug and Liz Vernand as new business sponsors of the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy (OVLC).  Liz walks Ojai Valley Land Conservancy land almost every day and she said this is what inspires her to support the Conservancy’s work.  Liz photographs the preserves and […]

Between this fall and next Spring, we are setting out to create a 2 acre wildflower extravaganza on The Ojai Meadows Preserve. In our ongoing effort to restore a variety of habitats on the Preserve, our next phase is to convert our weedy uplands into native grasslands and oak woodlands painted with wildflowers. This season […]

Each quarter we highlight two OVLC business sponsors in hopes that you will get to know them better, and thank them for their support by doing business with them. This quarter our business profiles are…  Back to E-Newsletter (Fall 2010) RAINS OF OJAI –  located in Ojai’shistoric arcade, is a one of a kind upscale country […]

Several fish rescues have taken place on the Ventura River Preserve this summer.   Responsible agencies get together annually – and with the assistance of Rick Bisaccia OVLC’s Preserve Manager – they rescue Steelhead when the swim holes and other parts of the river dry out.  The decision to move fish to safe locations up or […]

This book, authored by our own witty Conservation Director Brian Stark, is practical, humorous, and welcome. This guide has been a long time coming in the Ojai Valley where the Giant Reed has all but consumed parts of San Antonio Creek. The Ojai Valley Land Conservancy has four major areas of focus and one of […]

Here is a photo of our first successful transplants at the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy’s Ojai Meadows Preserve nursery. These plants have spent the last 3-4 weeks in their rooting trays and have now graduated to soil! We are so proud of our little ones. We still need a few more volunteers for the nursery. […]

Back to E-Newsletter (Summer 2010)   Special thanks to Doug & Leanne Campbell, Tom Esensten, Mimi  Gottlieb, Mike Gourley, Kay Martin and Rob Youngan additional 2.5 miles of trails for a connection to a new Ventura River Preserve trailhead. Currently the Riverview and Oso trailheads provide access to the northern and central areas of the preserve. […]

By Brian Stark                                                                                                                     Back to E-Newsletter (Summer 2010) Visitors to the Ojai Meadows Preserve may notice some new activity near the Highway 33 trailheads.  The OVLC is starting a new phase of restoration along the floodway chan that runs through the site to drain water from Maricopa Highway. The project involves planting an additional 500 trees and […]

Back to E-Newsletter (Summer 2010) The Board of Directors is pleased to welcome Roger back as President Elect.  An Ojai resident and avocado and citrus farmer for 36 years, Roger has enjoyed raising his family of two grown children and four grandchildren in the Ojai Valley. He lives in the east end of Ojai on […]

Go to E-Newsletter (Summer 2010) The OVLC habitat restoration program team welcomes Tom Swetek. Tom is a long-time Ojai resident with great experience in restoration project installation and care. Over the last few years he has worked with both the CREW and Channel Islands Restoration on projects to remove non-native plants and re-plant native habitats.  […]

Through the Ventura Arts Alive program Dianne Bennett has received a grant to support her work. The Ojai Valley Land Conservancy is one of her community partners for the year. Please see the video on youtube here  to learn more and to meet Dianne and her work. Additonal information about Dianne and her work can […]