Hermosa Valley Greenbelt Trail Restoration

 
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Connectivity

From its beginning as a railway in the 1880s to its conversion to a walking path in the 1980s, the 3.5-mile long Hermosa Valley Greenbelt Trail has been a resource for connectivity and outdoor recreation for our residents. While it is known for its greenery, the trail provides very little native habitat for birds, butterflies, and other pollinators like the endangered El Segundo blue butterfly. As a founding member of the El Segundo blue butterfly coalition, one of SBPC’s strategic objectives is to provide corridors of connectivity between populations of the butterfly in Redondo and at the Chevron property in El Segundo. A secondary objective is to provide year-round pollinators for the monarch butterflies that overwinter on the Greenbelt. Working with the City of Hermosa Beach, SBPC will target invasive monocultures such as ice plant along the Greenbelt for replacement with Seacliff buckwheat (the host plant for the El Segundo blue butterfly) and other native pollinators that bloom in each season.

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Below: Members of SBPC and volunteers from the City of Hermosa Beach at the Hermosa Greenbelt restoration day on June 11, 2022 (photo credit: SBPC)

Project Plant Palatte

Our mission at SBPC is native habitat connectivity and that includes habitat planted on private land! If you are interested in planting any of the natives you’ve seen at this project site, please reference the below list.

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