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quail forever is an organization that's
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concerned with
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conservation and maintenance of wildlife
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habitat
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the chapter here in ventura has been
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around since the mid 80s
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and a few months ago we approached the
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ventura botanical gardens about
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installing
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a wildlife water source on the
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botanical gardens property and
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the botanical gardens talked with us and
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approved the project
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and we looked at various sites and
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finally selected the site where we
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worked today
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we began this morning at eight o'clock
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so we started working by hand
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and had worked down a little maybe a
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foot
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when we approached a contractor that was
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working for the botanical gardens who
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had a mini excavator
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and once that hole was excavated we
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began
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refilling with material that had been
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broken down
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from large clods into smaller pieces so
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that we could establish a base
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inside the excavation for the water
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tank it's a plastic water tank heavy
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duty plastic water tank
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that collects water during the rainy
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season stores that water and allows
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wildlife to access the water during the
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dry season
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and so we put dirt in to
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establish the base for it leveled it out
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as best we could and then we put in sand
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uh to create a level base for the
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guzzler
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and we then put it in place
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our next step will be to get water into
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it
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we don't expect rain for quite some time
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so we want to
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get some water into that so wildlife can
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become accustomed to where it's located
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and start using it
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we did see some california or valley
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quail
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near the guzzler today so they will
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undoubtedly start using it
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that we've had bobcats mountain lions
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coyotes
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foxes squirrels
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rabbits deer all kinds of wildlife that
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use these water sources
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there are somewhere between 60 and 80 of
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these wildlife water sources
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throughout ventura county and on a
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little bit into santa barbara county
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and san luis obispo and kern counties as well

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