This photo of migrating waterfowl near The Barn at The Cosumnes River Preserve is an example of what we are creating at this 55,000 acre wetland /riparian preserve. The photo is so primordial, it melts my modern civilized mind down

Once a year, The Habitat Restoration Team (HRT) takes a day out of its crowded schedule to review the herbicide safety requirements required by the various government agencies that we report to. We do this in the winter because: 1)

What appears to be a guarantee that funding will be more reliable from The Land and Water Conservation Fund, comes a caveat.  The department of the Interior has to allocate that money.  I remember that back in the 1980s Secretary

Thirty-one years ago, TNC began the habitat restoration for the Cosumnes River at what is now known as “The Trail Head”.  For our first acorn plantings, we applied every technique we could think of to insure success.  That included a