Montrose Settlements Restoration Program

DDTs and PCBs dumped in the ocean decades ago at White Point, near Los Angeles continue to contaminate natural resources in the Southern California Bight. The Montrose Settlements Restoration Program is taking action to restore those resources.

Learn more about the Montrose site, the southern California bight and nearby Channel Islands.

MSRP Awarded Outreach Funds to Youth Agencies

Credit Ron Ballanti

Kid at family fishing event hosted by Cabrillo Marine Aquarium and United Anglers of Southern California.

This summer three organizations that have experience working with young people teaching a range of topics received funds from MSRP to initiate or continue programs focused on safe fishing practices. Each organization is approaching this issue in a unique way but all are presenting information in a hands-on setting. Two of these organizations, Redondo SEA Lab and United Anglers of Southern California, will take children fishing and explain which species are safe to eat, which are not, and how to safely filet and cook the fish. The Asian Youth Center will hold afterschool workshops for students using hands-on activities to demonstrate these same concepts. Each organization will also convey the complexities of environmental contamination issues to the students. Stay tuned for more information about each of these projects!

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Volunteers make a line leading up to the planting area to get supplies to the top of Scorpion Rock.

This fall seabird biologists organized a planting trip to Scorpion Rock off of Santa Cruz Island. The planting was part of a seabird habitat restoration project for Cassin�s Auklets. These seabirds create nests by burrowing under native shrub habitat. Biologists removed the non-native plants that prevented seabirds from nesting on the rock and planted 3,000 native plants this year. Water, people, and supplies are brought over to Scorpion Rock by skiffs from Scorpion Ranch Harbor, Santa Cruz Island.

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Volunteers make a line leading up to the planting area to get supplies to the top of Scorpion Rock (David Mazurkiewicz, NPS)

Planting area is shown in photo. Colored flags represent different plants to be placed in the ground. Water drums can be seen in the background. (David Mazurkiewicz, NPS)