Jim Hines

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Raised on historic Rancho Santa Ana, beside Lake Casitas.
Family owned "Ojai Valley Nursery" from 1969 till 1984.  My first job was working in the nursery and helping customers.
Active in several local environmental organizations. Member, board of directors of Ventura County Sierra Club.
Owner, garden design and consulting firm.
Authored the "Gardening in Ojai" articles for the Ojai Valley News (1975-1995).

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Restoring the Ventura River

by Jim Hines January 29, 2012

The efforts of our Friends of the Ventura River Coalition (www.friendsofventurariver..org) are now in full swing. We are an organization of organizations and people from the Ojai Valley and Ventura who are concerned about the future of the beautiful Ventura River. Which flows from her headwaters in the Los Padres…

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Ojai Wilderness Meeting

by Jim Hines October 10, 2011

The Ojai Valley looked so beautiful this past saturday.  With Nordhoff Ridge as our backdrop, I hosted the Sierra Club Wildernesss committe meeting at Nordhoff High School.

  Many of our members have never to Ojai before and boy were they impressed.

We spent the day discussing the clubs wilderness…

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Wolf Hunt

by Jim Hines August 28, 2011

On August 30th, the slaughter begins.  That is the date selected by the State of Idaho for the first ever hunt of an endangered species in the United States.  Hunting of the majestic symbol of the american west, the Rocky Mountain Gray Wolf was approved by an act…

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Los Padres Wilderness in Danger

by Jim Hines August 21, 2011

Our efforts to protect close to one million acres of the Ojai backcountry (Southern Los Padres Wild Hertiage Act) for wildlife habitat and wilderness is now threatened by a major anti-wilderness bill introduced in congress.  HR 1581 will, if passed and signed into law, prevent any future congress…

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Ventura River Parkway

by Jim Hines July 16, 2011

Imagine a grand natural park starting in the Los Padres National Forest north of Ojai continuing down along the Ventura River till the river meets the Pacific Ocean at the estuary in Ventura.

  With help of the Ventura River Parkway Coalition (an organization orginally formed to stop the…

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A Sense of Place

by Jim Hines June 4, 2011

People often ask me why I spend so much time over at Lake Casitas.  Well the answer is, because it is “home”  I was born and raised on my familys ranch which included the lands which nowmake up Casitas Dam, Lake Casitas and the surrounding recreation area.  …

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Garden Notes: Water Wise Gardening

by Jim Hines April 30, 2011

Warm weather has now arrived in the valley but our beautiful gardens need not suffer from the heat. By just using a few simple water wise gardening practices we can still enjoy the beauty of our gardens and not use a lot of water.

  It is important to deep…

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A Beautiful Spring In Ojai

by Jim Hines April 10, 2011

  The beauty of spring is in full bloom throughout the valley.  There is wildlfower beauty that I have not seen in years.  The native clematis vines are blooming up along Cozy Dell Trail.  There are even a couple of early bloominmg Yucca whippeli along…

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Garden Notes: Plant Citrus Now

by Jim Hines April 1, 2011

Ah, spring is here and now is the perfect time to plant mouthwatering citrus, avocadoes and tyropical fruits in your ojai garden.  When one thinks of Ojai, one thinks of our fine citrus growing areas, they have made Ojai famous.  But you can have your own citrus fruits…

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Lake Casitas Fence Killing Wildlife

by Jim Hines March 27, 2011

What a beautiful day for an outing to one of my favorite places, Lake Casitas.  So off i went  to enjoy the beauty of nature.  But I was saddened as I and six other motorists on Santa Ana Road watched a young deer IN the…

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