Since the year 2000, the Conservancy has acquired LANDSAT satellite images of the Natomas Basin. The images help with tracking changes in land use as well as in the Conservancy’s assemblage of mitigation land holdings. The Conservancy works with Ducks Unlimited’s cartographic experts to acquire the desired LANDSAT image, refine it, and then overlay the Conservancy’s properties onto the image (see red cross-hatched portions of the Natomas Basin). Each year, the Conservancy reviews the many satellite images taken in the autumn of the prior year. Some images are more clear than others, and some, like the image here for 2009, is cloud free. In this case, the fly-over image taken on October 9, 2009 was the most useful to the Conservancy.
Conservancy Board Dedicates the Anne Rudin Preserve
The Conservancy’s Board of Directors officially dedicated the newly-named Anne Rudin Preserve, a mitigation property which serves as sanctuary and refuge for the Natomas Basin HCP’s “Covered Species.” The 53-acre property lies in the Conservancy’s Fisherman’s Lake Reserve Area, adjacent to the City of Sacramento’s westerly city limits boundary. The… Continue Reading Conservancy Board Dedicates the Anne Rudin Preserve