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Moonlight on Mount Umunhum: a Special Weekend Restoration Invitation for Our Volunteers – INVITE ONLY Moonlight on Mount Umunhum: A special weekend restoration invitation for our volunteers – INVITE ONLY You are cordially invited to a special weekend on Mt. Umunhum which includes a service-based workshop on restoration ecology. This is a once in a lifetime event, which is limited to 15 volunteers who will help MROSD and Golden Hour Restoration Institute install the first 1500 native plants over the course of the weekend of September 9th and 10th. Weekend will include: staging plants - digging, planting, and watering backcountry dinner evening naturalist program breakfast and two lunches Participants must be 18 years old and have their own tents and camping equipment. Schedule for Mt. Um Overnight Sept 9-10 Day Start Time Task/Goal Notes 9:00 Arrival of volunteers at parking lot to drive 9:30 Training, Safety Talk, Introduction to 10 Install Tower Garden area with plants that 12:30 Lunch staged on the overlook, 1 Commence plant installation on East 3:30 Commence plant installation in 4 beds in 5 Depart summit for camping area. Set up Dinner served and program at base 6 camp Saturday Sept 9 8 Sunset hike to summit and evening 10 Quiet time, bed Egg and bagel breakfast with warm 7 drinks 8 Commence plant installation in Scarp 11 Complete planting around flagpole area 12 Lunch at basecamp area 12:45 Clean up plant installation areas, tools, Sunday Sept 10 3 Shuttles depart for parking area Amanda Mills: 206 920 8489 Project contacts: Lech Naumovich: 510 495 5885 www.openspace.org www.goldenhour.org A dynamic, inspiring field-based restoration ecology institute powered by community Plant Installation in Rocky Soils Proper installation of plants is critical to their survival and establishment. Although this task is seemingly simple in fertile, loamy soils, this task will be more difficult and include more steps in the rock substrate. The procedure for installing plants is based on numerous training techniques. Figure 1 serves as a visual guide that will help explain the procedure. The text that follows explains each step in detail. Figure 1: General planting diagram with approximate hole depth, width, inoculant placement, and rock mulch placement. The standard planting sequence for substrates that are ready to plant are as follows: 1. Flag all planting sites with color coded flags to allow for a visual inspection prior to installation. Planting should commence from the upper portion of the planting island, moving downward on a slope so fewer plants are impacted as additional plants are installed. 2. Plant is selected and hole is dug to approximately two times the diameter of the pot (e. g. if a plant is in a 5-inch pot that is 5 inches tall, a hole that is 10 inches in diameter and 10 inches deep should be excavated. Large rocks should be removed and placed in a separate pile for rock mulching. 3. 6 inches of soil should be returned to the bottom of the hole. This soil will provide an easy rooting area for the new plant. 4. Soils at base of hole should be watered with approximately 4 inches of water. Golden Hour Restoration Institute 510.495.5885 2150 Allston Way Suite 320 Berkeley CA 94704. www.goldenhour.org A dynamic, inspiring field-based restoration ecology institute powered by community 5. Plant should be inspected and removed from pot. If plant is root- bound at bottom, roots should be separated “tickled” such that the plant “knows” it is out of the pot and new roots can grow downward and sideways. Root- bound plants whose roots are not properly released often fail to establish. 6. Plant should be placed in hole and the plant collar should be placed 0. 5 inches above the soil grade. 7. Remaining soil will be used to fill around edges. Soils should be compacted by hand to remove large air pockets. 8. Place large rocks (2- 6” diameter) around the plant collar, acting as a mulch (Figure 2), downhill and far enough away that rocks will not slide and impact plant collar. Rock mulching will be critical for the establishment of plants on hot slopes. A small cover of rocks near the base of a plant can greatly increase soil- water retention and provide a cooler microsite for the plant to flourish. 9. Plant should be irrigated with water within 5 hours of installation, preferably over two courses with 3- 5 minutes in between watering. 10. Visit plant in next 24 hours to look for obvious stress, exposed roots, defoliation. Consider applying more water by Figure 2: Sample rock mulching technique. hand. Revisit site again in 3 and 7 days. Golden Hour Restoration Institute 510.495.5885 2150 Allston Way Suite 320 Berkeley CA 94704. www.goldenhour.org Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District Mount Umunhum Guide Rare and unusual plants rock sanicle Sanicula saxatilis APIACEAE CNPS 1B.2, State Rare Compound leaves with deeply serrated lobes Grows in rocky areas and talus slopes © Ken Hickman © Ken Hickman © Ken Hickman Mt. Hamilton thistle Cirsium fontinale var. campylon ASTERACEAE CNPS 1B.2 Serpentine tolerant, Leaf wavy, spiny-lobed and velvety with short, erect, jointed hairs Flower green to purple, nodding and, with clasping leaves under the flowers. Stems branch into multiple flowers smooth lessingia Lessingia micradenia var. glabrata ASTERACEAE CNPS 1B.2 Petals white, pink, or lavender *Skinny flower base with hairless phyllaries leaves at base of plant withered when in bloom woodland woolythreads Monolopia gracilens ASTERACEAE CNPS 1B.2 Ray flowers without lobes or slightly toothed. Common species 3-lobed ray flowers Flower branches at the top of the stalk, like a tree. Grows in disturbed, sunny and open areas. bristly jewelflower Streptanthus glandulosus ssp. glandulosus BRASSICACEAE Bristles along stem Petals and sepals bilateral and dark maroon to lilac. Petals form an “X” with a prominent mid-vein and white along the edges. Leaves oblong, hairy and lobed. Loma Prieta hoita Hoita strobilina FABACEAE CNPS 1B.1 Serpentine, Flw 13-19 mm, common spc 9-10 mm <2 m high and erect, common spc <6.5 cm high and low lying 3 leaflets with fine hairs. irregular sepals (calyx) Mount Umunhum Rare and unusual plants Brewer’s redmaids Calandrinia breweri MONTIACEAE CNPS 4.2 Disturbed areas Thick hairless stems <45 cm long pink to red flower with 3 stigmas Fruit larger than sepals by 3 mm or greater Brewer’s clarkia Clarkia breweri ONAGRACEAE CNPS 4.2 Serpentine tolerant Sparse, narrow leaves pink to lavender, petals 2 cm long and wide with 3 lobes, middle lobe is spoon shaped <20 cm stems, sparse, narrow leaves Santa Clara red ribbons Clarkia concinna ssp. automixa ONAGRACEAE CNPS 4.2 flowers with four looping sepals of red to pink erect herbaceous stems serpentine leptosiphon Leptosiphon ambiguus POLEMONIACEAE CNPS 4.2 Serpentine endemic. lavender flower, with maroon flower tube. Anthers yellow (Gillia has blue anthers). Sta- mens attached above hairy ring inside flower. opposite to whorled needle-like leaves flower tube greater than petals (lobes) © Ken Hickman © Ken Hickman Typical bisexual flower radial symmetry Typical composite flower of the stigma style pistil Leaf placement Asteraceae (sunflower) family stamen anther ovary ray flowers filament disk flowers petal (corolla) sepal phyllaries (calyx) alternate opposite whorled pedicel receptacle peduncle bilateral symmetry INCHES 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 .25 .5 .75 .25 .5 .75 .25 .5 .75 .25 .5 .75 .25 .5 .75 .25 .5 .75 .25 .5 .75 .25 .5 .75 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200 210 MILLIMETERS 18 Mt. Umunhum Vegetation Restoration Plan Mt. Umunhum Vegetation Restoration Plan LECH NAUMOVICH, VIC CLAASSEN & RESTORATION DESIGN GROUP December 1, 2016 1 Mt. Umunhum Vegetation Restoration Plan THIS PAGE HAS BEEN LEFT BLANK INTENTIONALLY. 2 Mt. Umunhum Vegetation Restoration Plan TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 5 Background .............................................................................................................................. 5 Revegetation Goals .................................................................................................................. 5 Success Criteria ........................................................................................................................ 6 Implementation Phasing .......................................................................................................... 6 Project Expectations and Limitations ........................................................................................ 6 2 Existing Conditions ........................................................................................................................... 6 Climate .................................................................................................................................... 6 Existing Soil Types on Adjacent slopes and Reconstructed Summit Substrates ......................... 7 2.2.1 Soil Fertility Analysis for Plant Growth ............................................................................ 11 Vegetation Types ................................................................................................................... 11 Site Landform Restoration and Soil Amendment .................................................................... 13 Constraints to Revegetation Success ...................................................................................... 13 3 Revegetation Plan .........................................................................................................................
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