Executive Director's Blog Archive
April 27, 2012
Water watching
NBC120427graphwatercosts The Conservancy is served well by the Natomas Central Mutual Water Company. In fact,…
April 15, 2012
Red Fox. Not the comedian, the real thing.
A person whose property borders one of the Conservancy’s preserves kept telling me that there…
March 1, 2012
Rices, prices, crisis
Many are unaware that the Conservancy is required to produce a rice crop on 50…
February 28, 2012
White-faced ibis makes a rare mid-Winter showing
The Conservancy now has lots of white-faced ibis on Conservancy preserves. But not so, really,…
December 14, 2011
Tiny bubbles (with large impacts)
Over the past couple of weeks, I have been asked to speak to various habitat…
December 14, 2011
It’s not just habitat for animals
Looking at the adjacent photo, you might see a lot of things I don’t. As…
November 1, 2011
International Relations and “Shop Talk”
Along with a multidisciplinary team from the California Department of Fish and Game, we toured…
September 6, 2011
Pretty as a button
These button-willows (also called Buttonbush, Honey-bells) have a scientific name of Cephalanthus occidentalis. But my…
August 3, 2011
Smut
The Conservancy’s preserves have now been infested by smutgrass (Sporobolus indicus). This is going to…