Channel Islands Restoration (CIR) is a licensed landscape contractor and has been restoring habitats on the coastal areas of Southern California since 2002. We specialize in eradicating non-native invasive species, propagating native plants, planting native plants, installing, and maintaining irrigation systems, preparing habitat restoration plans and conducting botanical and wildlife surveys. CIR has a Department of Pesticide Regulation Business License, and several CIR staff retain a Qualified Applicator License or Qualified Applicator Certificates.

CIR personnel have expertise in the identification of native and non-native plants and threatened and endangered species. We have worked on more than one hundred habitat restoration projects in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Los Angeles Counties; and our clients include four federal agencies, six state agencies, nine local or tribal agencies and many private entities.

We are currently treating Arundo in the Santa Clara River on a 250-acre property owned by The Nature Conservancy and have worked on many Arundo eradication projects in the Santa Clara River and other riparian systems in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties over the past 20 years. We are recognized by our colleagues, clients, and agencies for our thorough work, our professionalism, integrity, our ability to identify native plants and animals, our ecosystem knowledge, and commitment to protection of native plants and animals.

See a full list of our services below and contact us today at www.contact@cirweb.org

Ecological Restoration

• Habitat restoration planning, implementation and management

• Specialized invasive plant control

• Collection and propagation of native plant material

• Riparian corridor enhancement and restoration

• Coastal scrub enhancement and restoration

• Channel Islands habitat restoration

• Wetland restoration with special interest in estuaries,
  freshwater marshes, and vernal pools

• Recovery of special interest species

• Installation of irrigation systems

• Brownfields conversions

Planning and Management

• Environmental impact, analysis, and reporting

• Compensatory mitigation planning and reporting

• Nursery construction and management

• Conservation and natural resource management plans

• Management of multi-use natural reserves

• Interpretive plans and signage

• Nature park planning and implementation

Educational Opportunities and Resources

• Presentations and classroom instruction with a focus on promoting the conservation of natural resources and education at all-ages

• Internships and volunteer opportunities

• Field trips that focus on the Channel Islands or the Central Coast

Nature Resource Inventory and Assessment

• Floristic inventories and analyses

• Rare and endangered species assessments

• Resource management and conservation planning

• Vegetation mapping and analysis, including aquatic vegetation

• Wetland classification, delineation, assessment, and analysis

• Lake and pond documentation and diagnostic feasibility studies

• Municipal and county environmental resource inventories

• Comparative wetland functional assessment

• Analyses for special water resource protection areas

• Ecosystem services inventories and analyses, with a special emphasis on Mediterranean ecosystems

Research and Documentation

• Development of systematics collections and museum resources

• Plant sciences research – including taxonomic studies

• Comparative mitigation monitoring and assessment

• Preparation of presentations and scientific publications