CAT backhoe machinery on the banks of a partially cleared channel of water

It’s still uneventful. And we like it that way.

Each time we do a managed marsh channel clearing project, the entire team gets a…

thumbnail image of a report that shows the number of species of birdlife identified by a group of Sacramento Audubon Society visitors

Audubon does it again

It is always amazing the power of dedicated and committed volunteers. The attached report shows…

black and white image of three geese standing on the banks of a marsh, taken with a remote camera

Art photos made by machine…

With a remote camera, set to shoot when it detects motion, these geese were captured…

close-up of pink and orange cactus blossoms attached to a cactus

Who says there is no color this time of year?

See the adjacent photo of cactus blossoms on the Conservancy’s Silva tract, right next to…

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,…

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