What’s happening with Jenner?

California’s budget crunch has delayed closing escrow on the Jenner Headlands project, but the Sonoma Land Trust is dedicated to making sure this important piece of coastal heritage is preserved forever. The Jenner Headlands also continues to be a top priority for our funding partners, but California’s economic crisis has stalled our state partners’ ability to approve their share of the funding at this time. We are diligently working to find solutions to this hurdle so that we can complete the purchase of the property as soon as possible. Stay tuned…

Grassland monitoring project launched
at Estero

Thanks to generous support from the Gold Ridge Resource Conservation District, and assistance from the Milo Baker Chapter of the California Native Plant Society and Sonoma State University, a vegetation monitoring project is being implemented at the Estero Americano Preserve this spring. The project will help us track the progress of a livestock grazing program designed to promote native plant species in the property’s coastal grasslands. Coastal prairie, a unique vegetation type comprised of native perennial bunchgrasses and flowering herbs, is considered a rare plant community.

Plant propagators needed!

Come beat the heat and join Sonoma Land Trust’s native plant nursery workparty under the shade structures at Sears Point Ranch in southern Sonoma County (near Lakeville Highway & Highway 37), Tuesday, July 28, 10am–noon. Volunteers are needed to propagate native plants in preparation for restoration plantings along Tolay Creek and other wetland sites in the North Bay. The nursery is managed by the San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge, with support from many partnering groups, including the Bay Institute, Sonoma Land Trust, and others working to support wetland restoration in the area.

For more information or to sign up, please call (707) 544-5614, ext. 2 or email volunteer@sonomalandtrust.org.

Mapping grant awarded
to SLT

For the fourth consecutive year, ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) awarded a grant to the Sonoma Land Trust to increase our GIS capacity. The ongoing support of ESRI’s Conservation Program is critical for keeping our GIS technology and skills up to date. The most recent grant, awarded last month and valued at $7,200, will allow additional staff to create maps for the protection and management of SLT lands.

Explore Bay Area nature all year long

Bay Nature magazine is offering a subscriber special to supporters of the Sonoma Land Trust: Sign up for one year of award-winning Bay Nature for just $20. Go to www.baynature.org/store and enter promo code SDJESL at checkout, or call 888-BAYNAT and mention promo code SDJESL. Every quarter, Bay Nature takes readers out into the natural world of the Bay Area to visit beautiful places, learn about interesting wildlife, and meet the people dedicated to protecting them. Visit BayNature.org to learn more.

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July 2009

Tickets
to hear
Ruth Ann Swenson going fast

Internationally acclaimed soprano Ruth Ann Swenson will sing a benefit for the Sonoma Land Trust on Sunday, September 20. If you enjoy opera, don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear one of the world’s leading sopranos at the Santa Rosa home of Donald and Maureen Green.

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SLT garners Gold Leaf Award

The Western Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture has presented SLT with its prestigious Gold Leaf Award for the Land Trust’s work to protect land on Sonoma Mountain and for the recent acquisition of Sonoma Mountain Ranch.

Get out and enjoy the land

Check out our full schedule of hikes and workdays and join in the fun.

“Making the Connections”

If you didn’t receive our 2008 Annual Report, you can read it now.

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Tune in to Climate One

KRCB Radio 91 is airing the Climate One environmental lecture series from The Commonwealth Club this month on Thursday nights at 7 pm. Tonight: Clean Coal — Myth or Reality?

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