Description:
At the Arcadia Ecohome and its Microforest, a Certified Wildlife Habitat and Certified Pollinator Habitat located at the foothill of the Angeles National Forest in the San Gabriel Mountains, CIEDM is holding a local grassroots celebration with an action program during the Labor Day long weekend on September 4-7, 2026, to support and take part in the following five awareness campaigns: - Trees for Wildlife Month (TFWM), observed throughout September - National Wildlife Day (NWD), observed on September 4 - International Vulture Awareness Day (IVAD) and National Hummingbird Day (NHD), observed on September 5. - California Biodiversity Day (CABD), observed on September 7. Our actions include the following tasks: 1. Network and profile building: The program has been registered with wildlifeday.org and California Biodiversity Day, is also listed in data/event platforms such as CitSci and Luma. 2. A forest management and tree maintenance action to keep up a heathy ecosystem, including removing dead branches from the prolonged heatwaves in the past two summer months and rewilding the landscape for habitat conservation. 3. A citizen science based bioblitz walk to observe, record and share data at data platforms. 4. Take advocacy action with environmental and conservation groups by sending messages or petitions to decision makers on the subject matters, and spread our actions on social media as activists. 5. A social media campaign to spread the messages of the four awareness campaigns and share what we are doing as grassroots.