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Conservancy scientist Larry Serpa spends his days mucking around in watery habitats to uncover the elusive creatures that help us gauge the health of our rivers and streams.
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Our new online newsletter brings you the latest conservation issues the Conservancy is tackling to help preserve our natural resources in California — and beyond.
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Building on the past 50 years, the California Program continues to blaze the trail in conservation. Learn how the Conservancy is shaping the conservation of tomorrow.
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California’s leaders recently passed the most comprehensive water package the state has seen in more than 30 years.
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Since 1999, the Conservancy has been hard at work to protect the Santa Clara River, as well as the people and animals that rely on it for water and habitat.
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Learn what the Conservancy is doing to protect our diminishing freshwater mussel populations — a vital species to the overall health of our freshwater systems.
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Our changing climate is disrupting nature’s perfect balance and threatens the very resources which sustain us all. Learn what the Conservancy is doing to help fight climate change.
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Thanks to everyone who voted, our ROV has been christened. Find out the winning name, and watch a video of the ROV in action!
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The Conservancy's 300,000-acre Mount Hamilton Project is not only home to iconic landscapes, but is also a major source of fresh water for millions of Bay Area residents
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Building on our decades-long experience, the California Coastal and Marine Program is helping to protect our valuable oceans and preserve our maritime heritage.
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Learn how the Conservancy and partners helped to bring the Santa Cruz Island fox back from the brink of extinction.
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Spectacular vistas and diverse wildlife await the summertime traveler at the Carrizo Plain National Monument — 250,000 acres of pristine California wilderness east of San Luis Obispo.
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Together with fishermen, The Nature Conservancy is working to find sustainable ways to fish in order to protect nature and preserve California’s maritime heritage.
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In 1980 the Coachella Valley fringe-toed lizard sparked a controversy that resulted in an innovative model of conservation that benefited both people and wildlife.
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With salmon populations dwindling in the West, the Conservancy has been fighting to protect some of the best spawning habitats in California — the creeks of the Lassen Foothills.
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Read a Q&A with wildlife biologist Peter Sharpe about the early and tragic ending of the Santa Cruz Island bald eagles' 2009 nesting season.
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The Nature Conservancy has protected the 4,543-acre Shasta Big Springs Ranch in Siskiyou County, California — one of the last strongholds for endangered coho in California.
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What happened to the Santa Cruz Island eaglets? Read a Q&A with a wildlife biologist to learn more about the 2009 nesting season for bald eagle parents K-26 and K-10.
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Twenty years ago, the Sacramento River had as little as two percent of its original riverside forest left. Since then, The Nature Conservancy and its partners have been working to restore a 100-mile stretch of riparian habitat between Red Bluff and Colusa.
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The big cats are making tracks in the wilds of southern California, and Conservancy scientists are mapping their every move.
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Since 1983, the Conservancy has worked with numerous partners to help protect nearly 10,000 acres of Riverside County — creating an oasis in the midst of southern California’s urban sprawl.
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Follow the activities of bald eagle parents K-26 and K-10 during the 2009 nesting season on Santa Cruz Island.
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After three decades of tireless work, Santa Cruz Island has emerged as a model for successful island restoration and innovative conservation that can be implemented by other island projects around the world.
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The Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta is an ecosystem on the verge of collapse. Learn about the Delta and what we're doing to protect it.
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In 1972 The Nature Conservancy stepped in to protect the beautiful rolling hills and pristine shoreline of the Marin Headlands from development.
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Just in the nick of time, The Nature Conservancy and its partners saved the 95-acre Cheung Ranch — a critical wetland habitat in California's central coast.
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The Molera family’s beautiful Rancho del Sur property in the heart of Big Sur was protected through the efforts of the Molera family and the Conservancy in 1965. Today it is part of the state park system for all Californians to enjoy.
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What was originally thought to be a mammoth tusk turned out to be a significantly older find — a whale jawbone dating as far back as 10-25 million years ago.
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Read a Q&A about why the Delta is important and what we need to do to protect it.
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In 1959 the Conservancy acquired its first property in California: 3,100 acres of pristine old-growth Douglas-fir forest in Mendocino County.
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2009 marks the Conservancy’s 50th anniversary protecting California. In these 50 years, we’ve safeguarded hundreds of parcels of land and waterways and millions of acres of ocean — natural habitats essential to the survival of all species, including us.
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Take a trek to the Carrizo Plain for spectacular winter birding in a dramatic landscape. And if you can’t make the drive, take a tour through our slideshow!
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In 2008, The Nature Conservancy in California had an extremely successful year thanks to our generous supporters and partners. Learn what you’ve helped to protect.
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Galt school children are lending a hand to nature by gathering acorns at the Cosumnes River Preserve.
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Conservancy ecologist Jennifer Carah spotted juvenile endangered coho salmon in the Pardaloe Creek of the Garcia River watershed — the first sighting here and a significant distance upstream from where the salmon have previously been seen.
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The magnificent sandhill cranes are back! More than 7,000 cranes have already returned to the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta, many of them to land that has been preserved by the Conservancy.
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Since 1988, The Nature Conservancy has planted more than one million seedlings and is nearing its goal of restoring a continuous 100-mile stretch of vital riparian habitat to flood-prone lands along the Sacramento River between Red Bluff and Colusa.
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The Nature Conservancy is working with UC Berkeley researchers and its partners at the Carrizo Plain National Monument to count and map giant kangaroo rat populations using satellite remote sensing data.
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California harbors most of the continent’s Mediterranean habitat. Known as Las Californias, the area reaches from the southernmost tip of Oregon to northern Baja California, and is one of the most desirable places to live on Earth — but not just for people.
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Citing the effectiveness of the Northern Sierra Partnership, of which the Conservancy is a founding member, the governor stressed the importance of public-private partnerships to protect the northern Sierra, one of California’s most critical water resources.
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Day after day of 110 degree temperatures. Heat radiates up from the sand by early morning. To the human eye, there appears to be no shade, no haven from the sun’s brutal rays. How does anything survive out here?
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The Nature Conservancy has accomplished its goal of protecting at least 4,000 acres of the Ramona Grasslands, one of southern California’s last remaining stretches of native grasslands.
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Mongolian park ranger Amar Purev and six other Mongolians visit California and Arizona in search of strategies that will help them better protect Toson Hulstai Nature Reserve.
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The Conservancy has protected the 28,359-acre San Felipe Ranch through a conservation easement. The ranch — located between two county parks and one state park — is the missing link in a corridor of protected lands that stretches 70 miles.
Nature pictures (top to bottom): © Larry Serpa/TNC (adult red-bellied newt); © Richard Herrmann (sea stars and anemone); © Ian Shive (salamander, San Felipe Ranch, California); © Mike Eaton/TNC (a flock of swans swim in floodplain waters of the Cosumnes River watershed); © Douglas Caldwell (Santa Clara River); © Nancy Crowley/TNC (Conservancy scientist searching for mussels in a chilly California stream); © Bridget Besaw (Conservancy scientist conducting research at the Garcia River); © MARE/TNC (longnose skate caught by ROV cameras); © Ian Shive (San Felipe Ranch, Mt. Hamilton, California); © Bridget Besaw (Fishing boats set sail at Morro Bay, California); © Ian Shive (Santa Cruz Island fox); © Alan Schmierer (Carrizo Plain National Monument); © Kathleen Goldstein (Morro Bay harbor, California); © Ian Shive (hiker at the Coachella Valley Preserve); © Ian Shive (salmon make a run upstream to their spawning grounds); © Institute for Wildlife Studies (Santa Cruz Island bald eagle in flight); © Bridget Besaw (salmon); © Institute for Wildlife Studies (Santa Cruz Island bald eagles); © Grant Johnson (Sacramento River); © Kevin Crooks (mountain lion); © Harold E. Malde (a light mist covers the grasslands atop the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve); © Institute for Wildlife Studies (Santa Cruz Island bald eagles); © Stephen Francis Photography (Santa Cruz Island); © Karen Gregg Elliott/TNC (Cosumnes River watershed area); © Ian Shive (Marin Headlands); © Stephen Slade/Land Trust of Santa Cruz County (Cheung Ranch); © Mark Godfrey/TNC (Andrew Molera State Park); © Lotus Vermeer/TNC (fossilized jawbone discovered on Santa Cruz Island); © Harold E. Malde (Delta watershed); © Ian Shive (Angelo Coast Range Reserve); © Ian Shive (San Felipe Ranch); © Mark Godfrey/TNC (Otgonbaatar Tsog, a Mongolian herder, talks with rancher Bob Blanchard); © Alan Schmierer (Carrizo Plain National Monument); © Ian Shive (Parker Ranch); © Sandi Matsumoto/TNC (Galt school children collect acorns on the Cosumnes River Preserve); © Jonathan Warmerdam/North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board (Conservancy scientist snorkeling in Pardaloe Creek); © Ramona Swenson/TNC (sandhill cranes); © Grant Johnson (fishing on a slough adjacent to the main channel of the Sacramento River); © Alison Cleary (giant kangaroo rat close-up); © Richard Herrmann (Oyster fishing boats float on calm waters in San Quintin Bay, Mexico); © Anne Chadwick (Governor Schwarzenegger with Rebecca Morgan, the Morgan Family Foundation, and Alex Mas, The Nature Conservancy); © Esther Rubin (Sonoran Desert); © Macduff Everton (San Diego backcountry); © Mark Godfrey/TNC (Mongolian herder talks with California rancher Bob Blanchard about protecting grasslands); © Ian Shive (San Felipe Ranch, California).
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