I went out with Sarah a little over two weeks ago to visit a 62 acre preserve in Otay Mesa, which is ju st a stone’s throw away from where I live. It rests about a mile north of Otay Mesa Road, close to the intersection of Lonestar and Harvest Road.The team over at San Diego Habitat Conservancy (SDHC) has been managing this site since January 2013 and working to reduce the cover of non-native grasses so that the native plant seed in the soil have a better chance to grow and become established. By doing this, they aim to help provide the indigenous burrowing owls with a better habitat in which to forage and nest successfully.This image from the SDHC website gives an overall sense of the preserve’s size. I returned yesterday to capture more of this amazing area (and to see if I could spot those cute little burrowing owls). I didn’t have any luck with the owls, but as you can see below, the views at Lonestar are amazing.   The trails through the hills provide for somelonestarscenic landscape in southern San Diego county. If you’d like to help protect this amazing area, then you are only a mouse click away! If you shop at AmazonSmile this Father's Day, then 0.5% of all eligible purchases and an extra $5 will be donated to the team at San Diego Habitat Conservancy to support their preservation efforts. AmazonSmile is the same Amazon you know, with the same products, only with the added benefit of supporting local charity and non-profit organizations. Check it out (http://smile.amazon.com/ch/33-0906648). Also, if you’d like to bring your classroom into the great outdoors so help this generation of children reconnect with the natural world, just contact Sarah @ [email protected] and visit their website at www.sdhabitat.org!