Previous Intern with the SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS FINDS IDEAL JOB AS A RESTORATION TECHNICIAN

Makenna Brown, a Conejo Valley native who currently works for Laguna Conservation Foundation as a restoration technician, reflects in this article on her experiences as a restoration intern doing plant surveys in the Santa Monica Mountains.

She said: “ Under the tutelage of two incredible botanists, I learned more about the mountains in two weeks than I had in the previous 15 years. By giving names to the plants that lined the trails, the ecosystems suddenly came into sharp focus, as if putting glasses on for the first time in my life. What previously had been a blur of green with punctuations of color, slowly crystallized into a diverse and intricate array of habitats and food sources.”

FInd more about her journey here: lagunacanyon.org/stories/a-sense-of-place/