group of at least a dozen individuals standing at a location at TNBC Preserve, listening to a man talk

Banking of a different kind

There is a national conference of mitigation banking officials being held in Sacramento at present….

blue, brown, and green bar graph that shows rice water costs on Conservancy lands from 2000 to 2012

Water watching

NBC120427graphwatercosts The Conservancy is served well by the Natomas Central Mutual Water Company. In fact,…

close-up of a red fox standing on a wooden deck

Red Fox. Not the comedian, the real thing.

A person whose property borders one of the Conservancy’s preserves kept telling me that there…

Rices, prices, crisis

Many are unaware that the Conservancy is required to produce a rice crop on 50…

close-up of a flock of White-faced ibis foraging in a rice field

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,…

presentation slide of Ever-changing Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Risk Chart

Tiny bubbles (with large impacts)

Over the past couple of weeks, I have been asked to speak to various habitat…

cluster of shrubs and tree branches along a dirt roadway at the Conservancy

It’s not just habitat for animals

Looking at the adjacent photo, you might see a lot of things I don’t. As…

International Relations and “Shop Talk”

Along with a multidisciplinary team from the California Department of Fish and Game, we toured…

close-up of a mix of young and bloomed button-willow plants

Pretty as a button

These button-willows (also called Buttonbush, Honey-bells) have a scientific name of Cephalanthus occidentalis. But my…

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