Top 5 FAQ’s

Top 5 FAQ’s

An interview with John Roberts, Executive Director, The Natomas Basin Conservancy. “What are the most frequently asked questions you get?” Click on the photo icon to view the top 5 FAQ’s.
Beak performance

Beak performance

(October 11, 2017)  This photo was taken by Conservancy field crews on the Conservancy’s BKS tract recently. Clearly, these Long-billed curlews like to wade and forage in mud flats and shallow water, and we try to provide that environment for them. And while we are...
Loch Ness monster?

Loch Ness monster?

(September 1, 2017)  The creature that is barely discernible in this photo may look like something much larger, but it is actually of that sometimes-cryptic Giant garter snake (GGS) making its way through some surface vegetation on one of the Conservancy’s marsh...
Honey do

Honey do

(August 17, 2017) On Conservancy preserves, we occasionally grow sunflowers as a rotation crop on land we use for Swanson’s hawk foraging. We had no idea that honey bees would like this so much. You’ve all read how important honey bees are, and even though they are...
Munsters

Munsters

(July 13, 2017)  First, this photo, taken today on the Conservancy’s BKS preserve, is of one of the largest great- horned owls I have ever seen. There are at least five of them on that one preserve, which leads one to conclude there must be a rich and abundant prey...