Join us in the Native Plant Garden at the Lost Coast Education Center in Whitethorn for our First Sunday of the month volunteer work party! Please bring your own water and snacks. Tools will be provided. Rain cancels. Email [email protected] for more information, to RSVP, or to register for a youth stipend.

On Saturday, March 8, Friends of the Lost Coast will host a free workshop on creating pollinator sanctuaries with native plants. Restoration ecologist and permaculture designer Kyle Keegan will teach participants how to use the quick and easy method of “sheet mulching” to convert yard, orchard and garden areas into sanctuaries for native pollinators. This…

All are invited to join BLM & Friends of the Lost Coast in the King Range on Sunday, March 9 from 10a.m. to 2p.m. for a rescheduled Lost Coast Trail Stewards workday.  We'll be maintaining the Horse Mountain Creek Trail and work will include tree removal, brushing and trail tread. Meet 9:50am at the intersection…

This Native Plant Sale has been cancelled due to heavy rains in the forecast for Sunday.  Please join us for our next two spring plant sales on April 20th and May 11th. Spring is a perfect time for planting, so come stock up on native plants for your garden at Friends of the Lost Coast’s…

Join FOLC & BLM on Sunday, March 23 for a late season fungi foray in King Range NCA! Lost Coast Mike, a local fungi enthusiast working to catalogue mushrooms and fungal species of the Lost Coast, will guide us on a field outing (location TBD), followed by a "lab" session at the Lost Coast Education…

The 25th anniversary of the National Conservation Lands will be celebrated with stewardship and an opportunity for the community to help in commemorating our national monuments at a rescheduled Black Sands Beach brick-laying and Shelter Cove work party on Sunday, April 6.  Hosted by Friends of the Lost Coast and BLM King Range, volunteers are…

Join FOLC and BLM on Saturday, April 19, from 10am to 1pm for our first Adopt-A-Beach Cleanup of 2025!  We’ll meet at 10am at Mal Coombs Park and will work until 1pm to keep Shelter Cove's beaches clean and pristine.  A limited number of $10/hr stipends are available for youth, ages 10-17, with advance registration.…

Spring is a perfect time for planting, so come stock up on native plants for your garden at Friends of the Lost Coast’s Easter Celebration & Native Plant Sale on Sunday, April 20 from 10a.m. to 3p.m., weather permitting.  The nursery has a wide selection of flowering native annuals, perennials, shrubs, trees and grasses available…

Friends of the Lost Coast, Sanctuary Forest and CA State Parks are teaming up again on Saturday, April 26 from 10am-2pm to remove French broom in Sinkyone Wilderness State Park.  Meet at the Jones Beach Trailhead, parking is limited and carpooling is recommended. Email [email protected] to RSVP for the workday. Tools and gloves will be…

Celebrate Earth Day by helping to steward our local public lands on Sunday, April 27 from 10am to 1pm in King Range National Conservation Area.  Join Friends of the Lost Coast, BLM King Range, Sanctuary Forest & D.Perkins Events for a day of stewardship and fun, plus an Earth Day poster contest for youth!  Meet…