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It’s always good to get involved in your community. In past Tribunes, we’ve given you some ideas of how you can get involved and help people and the environment. This week, we’re going to show you what others have done to get involved. Chevron has played a great part in helping the environment, and we’d like to mention how.

Here are just a few of the things Chevron’s done to get involved.

Butterflies: The El Segundo Blue is a tiny butterfly on the Endangered Species List, whose habitat once spanned 36 square miles south from downtown Los Angeles. Urban Development shrunk its habitat to two small areas, including two acres of land within Chevron’s El Segundo refinery. To compound the problem, encroaching weeds were choking out the wild buckwheat plants on which the butterfly feeds. In response, the company fenced off the area, retained an entomologist, began eliminating marauding weeds and cultivated additional buckwheat seedlings to ensure the survival of the El Segundo Blue butterfly.

Eagles: In a remote area of Wyoming, Chevron employees helped develop perches that would rise above power lines so that eagles and other raptors could land safely.

Marine life: Old gasoline storage tanks are not often perceived as environmental assets, yet without them marine life would be much less bountiful off the coast of Florida. Here, old Chevron tanks have been cut and sandblasted clean to form environmentally approved artificial reefs to attract fish. Obsolete drilling rigs are used in the same way in the Gulf of Mexico.

Sage grouse: In southwest Wyoming, Chevron employees worked with an assemblage of biologists, ornithologists and federal and state officials to devise a carefully planned pipeline construction project scheduled to minimize the impact on the sage grouse living in the area.

Special Thanks to Chevron