General contact: John Beall Ventura County Agriculture/Weights and Measures    john.beall@venturacounty.gov   805-665-7730

Formed: 2005 to 2014. Reformed in Fall of 2019-Continuous

Meetings: Quarterly-In Person/Zoom Meetings include a program speaker/presentation, participants sharing information on weed projects they are working.  Our goal is to encourage attendees to learn and share with each other their Weed Management work in Ventura County.  We want to get to know each other and work cooperatively on weed management projects.

 

Next Ventura County Weed Management Area Meeting 

Thursday, March 5th, 2026
1 to 3 pm (In Person/Zoom)
Ventura County Agriculture/Weights & Measures Office
555 Airport Way Suite E Camarillo (off Pleasant Valley Rd)

• 1) Introductions/Announcements
  2) Surfrider Foundation’s Approach to Weed Management through the Ocean Friendly Gardens Program and Dune Restoration Projects-Joan Tharp and Laura Bauer-Surfrider
  3) Optimizing restoration strategies in ice plant-dominated landscapes of coastal California-Nicholas Saglimbeni UCSB
  4) Wildflower & Weed Show update (Sat-April 11th Santa Paula)-Eileen Guettler
  5) Pancratium maritimum-Sea Daffodil update Brittney Sheets CA State Parks
  6) Glaucium flavum-Sea Poppy update-John Beall VC AWM
• Topic: Ventura County Weed Area Management MeetingTime: Mar 5, 2026, 01:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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  Nick Saglimbeni is a PhD candidate at UC Santa Barbara in the department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology. His studies focus on the management of invasive species in coastal ecosystems of southern California. Nick’s work seeks to improve our ability to control invasive plant species in diverse ecosystems (coastal sage scrub, wetland, grassland, and dune habitats) at larger time and spatial scales. Through the same lens, he investigates how to best restore native plant communities after invaders have been removed. Before pursuing his graduate studies, Nick worked as a restoration technician at UCSB’s Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration implementing a variety of restoration projects in the open spaces surrounding UCSB’s campus.
  Laura Bauer grew up in Southern California and was always interested in the natural world around her. She leaped into horticulture in 2001 by volunteering (and eventually teaching) at the Theodore Payne Foundation for Native Plants in Sun Valley. She started her own specialty garden maintenance company in Pasadena in 2004, eventually gaining her California contractor’s license. After moving to Ventura in 2012, a free seminar by G3 (the Green Gardens Group) introduced her to the watershed approach to landscape design, which emphasizes capturing rainwater and building healthy soil. The same principles were used to develop the Ocean Friendly Gardens program for Surfrider Foundation, and Laura is a long-time member of the OFG Committee in Ventura. She has also been a Board member of the Southern California Horticultural Society for over ten years and was a member of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers. She is now assistant manager for Growing Works Nursery, a small wholesale nursery in Camarillo that specializes in growing California native plants and other California-friendly plants.
  Joan Tharp has dedicated more than a decade to environmental conservation, volunteering with Surfrider Foundation Ventura County and Ventura Audubon Society’s Shorebird Recovery Program. Her deep connection to the ocean began in childhood visits to Southern California beaches, where she explored tide pools and surf breaks. With a degree in Environmental and Systematic Biology, Joan began her career in Aquaculture, raising abalone along California’s Central Coast for seven years before relocating to Ventura County. She then spent 22 years in the agricultural industry as a project manager for a vegetable seed company, blending her environmental passion with hands-on industry expertise. After retiring, Joan devoted herself fully to volunteer work, focusing on wetlands, beaches and ocean conservation.

December 11^th Ventura County Weed Management Area Meeting -Basic Calflora Training  Recording

Pete Frye has a background in database design and spent years managing large vegetation datasets with a team using Calflora tools.  He has decades of experience in habitat restoration and worked as a Resource Specialist with Marin County Parks.  Pete was involved in the design of Calflora Weed Manager, an advanced system used to map, track weed treatments and create customized reports on invasive plant infestations.

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Ventura County-Agriculture/Weights & Measures

555 Airport Way Suite E Camarillo (off Pleasant Valley Rd)