Flammang Thumb Revegetation Planting Event

Flammang Thumb Revegetation Planting Event

Sea and Desert Interpretive Association partnered with CalEnergy and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for a community revegetation planting event at Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge. Volunteers helped plant 33 native trees and shrubs, including ironwood, blue palo verde, Mexican palo verde, honey mesquite, and screwbean mesquite, within the Flammang Thumb Revegetation Unit.

The seedlings were grown by the Brawley Union High School agriculture class using seeds originally collected on the refuge, bringing the effort full circle from seed collection to cultivation to restoration planting.

Of the 33 native plants installed, 21 have successfully established at the site. Sonny Bono Refuge staff continue to support the project by watering the plants on a weekly to biweekly basis, helping ensure the long-term success of this collaborative habitat restoration effort.