A person whose property borders one of the Conservancy’s preserves kept telling me that there was a red fox roaming around on the preserve. I was a little disbelieving, but this is a wonderful neighbor. Supportive of the Conservancy and its mission. I …

Many are unaware that the Conservancy is required to produce a rice crop on 50 percent of the mitigation land it is responsible for. Scientists have long known that the giant garter snake, one of the primary species covered under the NBHCP, thrives in …

The Conservancy now has lots of white-faced ibis on Conservancy preserves. But not so, really, in the winter. At least until now. When on an inspection tour recently, I spotted this white-faced ibis foraging on the Conservancy’s Bennett South tract in …

Over the past couple of weeks, I have been asked to speak to various habitat land management groups. The total number of people in these audiences totaled somewhere in the 300+ range. The topic I was asked to speak on revolved around the implementation …

Looking at the adjacent photo, you might see a lot of things I don’t. As a habitat land manager, and one charged with keeping things safe, I saw something you might not. When I happened on this scene on the Conservancy’s North Basin Reserve Area in Sut …

Along with a multidisciplinary team from the California Department of Fish and Game, we toured several of the Conservancy’s preserves with Professor Yukihiro Morimoto, Ph.D with the University of Kyoto in Japan. He is a professor of Landscape Ecology a …