Conservancy Board member Tom Urquhart recently returned from military duty in the Mideast. For the six months he was away, the Conservancy’s Board of Directors agreed it was appropriate to hold Tom’s seat open for him. Small organizations like the Cons …

It’s green! View our Hines Green Office award (PDF) While the Conservancy does its “green” work out in the field every day, sometimes, we have to think about how we handle things here at the office. It’s a pleasure that the Conservancy just received th …

I can’t get over the photo (see here) of the subsoil on the Conservancy’s Betts tract. I’d heard for 20 or more years about the “hardpan” that existed under much of the Natomas Basin’s top soil. Until you see it, it’s difficult to imagine. Once you do …

Alfalfa is regarded as one of the best crops in the Natomas Basin for benefitting Swainson’s hawks, one of the “major” “Covered Species” under the NBHCP. On the Conservancy’s Souza tract, we improved land on which to grow alfalfa, one of the very few– …

Last Thursday, we had a great opportunity to show the Conservancy’s oldest preserve unit to a group of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service senior managers. The delegation from USFWS was led by Ren Lohoefener, Regional Director of the USFWS’s Pacific Southwe …

With assistance from the Conservancy’s vegetation management contractor, we have finally identified a weed that has managed to grow to extraordinary proportions on the Conservancy’s Bennett North preserve. It is pictured here as it has grown in the Ben …