Habitat Restoration

Make Habitat a Habit

by Ellen Zagory, Director of Horticulture
Fri, February 25, 2022

Environmental Education

We are fortunate to live in California, with its wondrous diversity of flora and large natural areas that are not only places of beauty but also sources of spiritual and emotional refreshment.

Students on the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden's Learning by Leading Habitat Restoration team work to restore a previously barren patch of land filled with plants that surround their man-made water way.

Restoration Project Proves Invaluable to Student Interns

by Isabella Beristain
Wed, January 08, 2020

Student Leadership

Students on the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden's Learning by Leading Habitat Restoration team work to restore a previously barren patch of land filled with plants that surround their man-made water way.

Katie Pierce

Katie Pierce Environmental Science and Management
Habitat Restoration Student Co-Coordinator, 2015-17

Hunter Stapp

Tue, April 11, 2017

Student Leadership

A testimonial from Hunter Stapp, a Learning by Leading student co-coordinator of the Ecological Restoration team.

Learning by Leading Program update 2015-2016

Wed, July 13, 2016

Student Leadership

We believe that students learn best by leading.

Members of the Friends of the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden, in addition to other loyal supporters, helped us provide internships to the over 80 students participating in our Learning by Leading Program over the 2015-16 school year. Here is a recap of how these students added richness to our landscapes, improved our outreach efforts, and leveraged staff resources.

Image of Learning by Leading students restoring a landscape along Hopkins Road.

Restoring UC Davis landscapes one acre at a time

Wed, April 06, 2016

Student Leadership

“Learning by Leading” Habitat Restoration and Naturalized Lands Management interns have completed a multitude of projects across campus focused on the provision of native wildlife habitat and the improvement of our campus stormwater quality.

Students lead landscape improvements along west end of Arboretum waterway

Fri, November 13, 2015

Student Leadership

The bare banks of the west-end portion of Arboretum’s waterway is receiving a new landscape thanks to students participating in the Arboretum and Public Garden’s “Learning by Leading” Habitat Restoration and Naturalized Lands Management Program.

Learning by Leading Students Crucial to New Initiatives

Thu, September 03, 2015

Student Leadership

The Learning by Leading students provided countless hours, creative energy, and passion for designing and leading new projects with the Arboretum and Public Garden.

Scouts from Troop 111 work to install posts along the reserve to protect the sensitive landscape at UC Davis Putah Creek Riparian Reserve.

Scout project helps protect creek habitat

Tue, August 11, 2015

Community Engagement

Scouts installed posts along the perimeter of the Putah Creek Riparian Reserve to help protect the reserve's sensitive landscape.

Waterway & turtle habitat upgrade underway

Fri, March 09, 2012

Environmental Education

At the very west end of the Arboretum, construction crews are working to complete a project on a channel of Putah Creek that will not only improve our campus utility operations, but restore a native turtle habitat.