What the heck is wrong with the friends of the Madrona Marsh in Torrance California.
They are so proud that …
Quotes on The Friends of Madrona Marsh (FOMM) is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and restoring the Madrona Marsh. The Friends have been the backbone of the Madrona Marsh Preserve for the last thirty years. They are involved in creating, sponsoring and conducting various activities to promote the preservation and restoration of the marsh and being of service to the Nature Center. Members of FOMM and volunteers also assist in tours and projects of the Torrance Parks and Recreation. Quotes off
…. And yet the only thing about plants that they are proud enough to put on their website is about planting their water wise garden with low water use landscaping plants.
And even though their plants are native to California —– they weren’t native to a marsh!
I truly want to smack them upside the head and say [yelling mode on] what about the marsh plants [yelling mode off].
We have lost 90 plus percent of our California freshwater marshes. We let builders fill in, drain, and build on remaining marshlands Because they promise to recreate it somewhere else. Which is the same thing as allowing them to bulldoze an old growth redwood forest and let them plant some seedlings somewhere else and call it the same thing.
And the FOMM restoration projects are ….
to plant water wise xeriscape landscape plants that you can buy at Home Depot.
People don’t Google a marsh location to read the “Friends Of [that marsh]” babble on about their one lonely restoration project of waterwise plantings representing [drum roll] Coastal Sage Scrub Chaparral Back Dune Scrub Channel Island Desert
These are
representatives of a …. [yelling mode on]Freshwater Marsh??????[yelling mode off]
And then finally a meager selection of Riparian/Woodland plants. I guess that’s as close to a marsh as the Friends of the marsh want to get.
Bob