Recently we exposed Sacramento City Councilmember Ray Tretheway to the Ray Tretheway Grove on the Conservancy’s Silva tract preserve. About six years ago, when Ray was on the Conservancy’s Board of Directors, he and I planted two trees on what we call …

The photo nearby was taken by County of Sacramento Certified Wildlife Biologist Roger Jones. It’s of a Swainson’s hawk flying above the Conservancy’s Alleghany 50 tract in the Fisherman’s Lake Reserve Area. Roger says, “…it and one other [Swainson’s …

Biological monitoring crews advised me today that on the Conservancy’s Kismat tract, one of the traps set there (in order to conduct regular biological monitoring) produced two females and a male giant garter snake. All three in one trap! This is amazi …

At least two burrowing owls have moved onto the Conservancy’s Elsie tract. They’re occupying one or more burrows in a ditch enhancement project we constructed there last summer. The enhancement effort involved taking 4,000 cubic yards of soil from the …

Mindful of the need to work constructively with the Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District (did you see that the Conservancy won the District’s “Ecological Mosquito Management Award” for 2007 for “innovative mosquito reductio …

The January and February wind and rain storms have been a real challenge. As the attached photos show, two of the Conservancy’s barns took some very serious roof damage. Water leaked through the big barn on the Silva tract, and fell on to a nice stack …