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 …

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 …