Volunteer Day at the North Campus Open Space

Help us restore and create NCOS with plants and more! Meet at 6969 Whittier Drive at 9am. Bring water, sunscreen, and wear a hat, clothes and shoes that are suitable for outdoor work. Please RSVP to [email protected].

UCSB's North Campus Open Space (NCOS) comprises 136 acres of upland and wetland habitats contiguous with and augmenting the greater Elwood-Devereux Open Space. The project has restored wetland and associated upland habitats that existed before the area was converted to the Ocean Meadows golf course in the 1960s, which filled in the historic upper arms of Devereux Slough with soil from the surrounding uplands. The NCOS restoration project began in 2017 with a fine scale grading of the site in order to re-create the salt marsh and use the excavated soil to rebuild the upland habitats. Come volunteer with us and support your local wetland restoration project!

Aerial view of the North Campus Open Space Restoration Project. Credit: Bill Dewey.

Sunset over the slough at NCOS.

Black-necked stilts forage in the slough at NCOS.

Burrowing owl on the NCOS Mesa.

Cheadle Center staff and student workers gather seed on the NCOS Mesa.

Host or Publisher Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration