Defensible Space through Habitat Restoration
Work with your neighbors, SMMFSC team, and State Parks to promote native plant buffers around your community. This work focuses on supporting oak woodlands within 200 ft of structures. If you are interested in completing a habitat restoration project in your own community, please fill out our request form.
Highlighted project:
Entrada Restoration
The SMMFSC supported a community-led defensible space through habitat restoration program on Entrada Road in Topanga. A dedicated group of neighbors banded together to transform an overgrown dry grass hillside into a budding oak grove. A piece of state park land was dense with invasives, leaving the neighborhood surrounded by dry fuels that could erupt in the face of a wildfire. Local leaders devoted time and energy to obtaining permits, raising funds, and finalizing plans. The area was cleared of non-native species and replaced. Along with the SMMFSC, a group of volunteers spent a day planting native species including scrub oaks, coast live oaks, and toyon shrubs. The hillside is now a budding oak grove that will grow to protect the street for years to come.
