On September 6, 2007, I personally saw 11 Sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis) on the Kismat tract in the Conservancy’s Central Basin Reserve Area. This is the first time these birds, some having wing spans of 80 inches, have been seen on Conservancy pres …

It is with some great pleasure that I record that the large marsh complex channel-clearing project for 2007 has been completed as of September 10, 2007. This project primarily consisted of the Lucich North and Frazer North tracts along the Natomas Cros …

The team that keeps grass height to levels appropriate for Swainson’s hawk foraging (these raptors need to see and be able to access prey, and taller vegetation constrains both) run on four legs and weigh about 40 pounds. Their work to control vegetati …

The Conservancy’s biological effectiveness monitoring team just notified us that two amazing things happened on one of the Conservancy’s preserves. Two of the NBHCP’s “covered species” have been found nesting in places we had not seen before. Fi …

On the Conservancy’s Betts tract preserve, there is a residence rented to the Widdowsons. Both are world-class biologists and do an amazing job of spotting valuable wildlife biology events and activities at the preserve. Recently, they found an injured …

The bad news is that the Mosquito District just called and said it was going to spray pyrethrin insecticide on the Conservancy’s BKS preserve tonight. We normally don’t like this, as insects on the preserve serve as food for some of the NBHCP’s covered …