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May 2013
- Land Trust recognized as key landowner along San Francisco Bay
- A writing workshop on “Sense of Place” with Erica Wheeler
- A new generation of hoot-ers at Sears Point
- Working together to eradicate non-native weeds
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April 2013
- Sonoma Land Trust awarded accreditation for meeting national standards of excellence
- Land Trust receives promised Baylands properties from Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria
- Happier trails for you
- Sunflowers for Santa Rosa
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March 2013
- Preservation Ranch lives up to it's name
- Backcountry stewards clear the trails
- Conservation monitors kick off another field season
- And to all a good night
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February 2013
- Funding Secured for new trail at Sears Point
- Happy paddling at Cow Patty Pageant on Estero
- Willow sprigging at Little Black Mountain Preserve
- Land conservation starts with our landowners
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January 2013
- Gifts of all sizes helped secure $500,000 in matching funds
- Hiking along Sonoma County's bayfront
- Birding for a cause
- Forest restoration on the Jenner Headlands
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December 2012
- We're more than halfway to the Match!
- Ensuring safe passage for fish and wildlife
- New red-legged frog ponds filling up as hoped
- Drama in the air!
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November 2012
- Donors pledge $500,000 matching grant
- Building new homes for Glen Oaks barn owls
- Demonstrating fire safety for forest landowners
- Protecting preserve roads from the rainy season
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October 2012
- For red legged frogs, add water
- Citizen science at Tolay Creek Ranch
- Damselfly research at the Estero Americano
- Sharing our hard-won experience with other trusts
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September 2012
- Making the old barn at Glen Oaks like new
- "IOOBY" students explore Estero Americano Preserve
- Forestry brown bag, September 27
- Funds for fish on the Jenner Headlands
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August 2012
- Sonoma Land Trust honored by Supervisors
- Saving wildlife by capping poles
- Seizing opportunities that may not come again
- Pitkin Marsh — an outdoor laboratory
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July 2012
- Extending the trail at Little Black Mountain Preserve
- Saving owls is all in a day's work
- The bees' knees at Oak Hill Farm
- Stuart Creek Run cheers, "Bye bye, bamboo!
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June 2012
- A bonanza of white sedge!
- Forestry conference a wild success
- Martinez clan is leaving the Jenner Headlands
- Enjoy open days at Glen Oaks Ranch
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May 2012
- Celebrating Little Black Mountain Preserve!
- Owl pellets for Mother's Day?
- Conservation Corps crew tackles jubata grass at Estero Americano Preserve
- It's all about community and all about the land
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April 2012
- You never know what you're going to see on a Land Trust hike!
- Managing the Jenner Headlands
- Sears Point restoration project leaps ahead
- Making our Little Black Mountain forest healthier and safer
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March 2012
- Meeting the President
- Bring Back California steelhead to Stuart Creek
- North Coast Conservation Conference
- BioAtlas project
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February 2012
- Japanese scientists learn to grow tidal marsh at Sears Point
- A beautiful and artful bequest
- Healing the land takes a village
- Funds for fish on the Jenner Headlands
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January 2012
- Planting native trees at Tolay Creek Ranch
- Pitkin Marsh on display at statewide conference
- Volunteer accomplishments in 2011
- You Did It!Thank you to everyone who donated to our $50,000 match
- Ken Freeman joins Board
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December 2011
- Help meet $50,000 match
- Sears Point restoration can keep pace with sea level rise
- Successful forestry workshop encourages light-touch practices
- Erosion control underway at Estero Americano Preserve
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October 2011
- We built it–and burrowing owls came!
- Obama Administration fast tracks wetlands restoration
- Celebrating our volunteers
- Paying tribute to Legacy League members
- SSU students working on our lands
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September 2011
- Baylands Center grand opening celebration
- Burrowing owl box installation workparty
- The Glen Oaks Trail Crew at work
- SSU students decipher the landscape's history at Glen Oaks
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August 2011
- The Baylands Center is completed!
- Protecting birds at Glen Oaks Ranch
- Go-to Gang tackles another project
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July 2011
- Steelhead to benefit from latest SLT acquisition
- Students give burrowing owls a boost in the Baylands
- Volunteers clean up historic dairy site on Jenner Headlands
- Our very own badger whisperer
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June 2011
- Parks Alliance formed to keep Sonoma County State Parks open and flourishing
- Bill at Bodega–passing on the history
- Forest Conservation Working Group
- Report finds Bay Area farmland faces challenges
- Estero Americano Preserve coastal grassland monitoring project underway
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May 2011
- Jenner Headlands wildflower meadow named for Jean Schultz
- 2011 membership drive in progress
- Honoring a longtime friend of the land
- New badger photos from the Jenner Headlands
- PRBO Conservation Science on the Headlands and the Estero
- Tolay Creek riparian restoration
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April 2011
- Diggin' the Jenner Headlands
- Meet our new "on-the-land" director
- Big plans for wild lands
- Volunteers prepare Glen Oaks for "Open Fridays"
- What is the "Open Fridays at Glen Oaks" program?
- Volunteer Linda Hale tackles another monitoring field season
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March 2011
- Student Conservation Association stewards Laufenburg Ranch
- Alexander Valley venture capital advisor named SLT board chair
- Cow Patty Pageant a success
- New GIS grant helps upgrade SLT's mapping program
- Celebrating Summerfield Waldorf's farm and farmer
- Americorps team tackles pampas grass at Jenner Headlands
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February 2011
- Lovely Mayacamas ranch bequeathed to Sonoma Land Trust
- Fuel reduction project underway at Little Black Mountain
- Jenner Headlands presentation at SRJC March 16
- Honoring the Ellmans with trails at Glen Oaks Ranch
- Spring Jenner Headlands hikes
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January 2011
- WE DID IT! Thank you to everyone who donated to our $300,000 match
- Former Coastal Conservancy Official Neal Fishman joins SLT board
- Monitors wrap-up another successful field season
- Oak Hill Farm invests in upgraded facilities
- Jenner Headlands outings — 2010 year-end review
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December 2010
- Sebastopol family will match all donations up to $300,000
- Carneros Land Stewardship Foundation gives $20,000 for Tolay Creek restoration
- Getting acquainted with nature
- The Baylands Center is growing!
- REI "digs" SLT workdays
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November 2010
- Jenner Headlands: An outdoor classroom with an amazing view
- We've begun construction of the Sonoma Baylands Center!
- Geology visit to Little Black Mountain
- Willow planting volunteer workday
- PD covers raptor migration on Jenner Headlands
- Lucky paddlers explore the Estero Americano
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October 2010
- Fifth graders held "rapt" at SLT's Estero Americano Preserve
- Local land trusts oppose breaching of conservation easement for Roblar quarry
- Volunteer celebration headlined by photographer Stephen Joseph
- Safe passage for wildlife at Tolay Creek Ranch
- Next step toward restoring Sears Point wetlands
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September 2010
- Young conservationists pluck weeds to help shorebirds
- Volunteer workday at the Jenner Headlands
- Our own green hero
- “Re-Storing” the Little Black Mountain cabin
- SLT staff head for the hills
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August 2010
- Sustaining an endangered butterfly
- Welcome Kristine Acquino!
- Out and about in June, June, June!
- Reducing SLT’s own ecological footprint
- Your donations at work
- Jenner Headlands rocks!
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July 2010
- Thank you, supporters — we met the Schulz match!
- Protecting the remaining coastal prairie
- Out and about in June, June, June!
- CCC crew tackles invasive plants at Glen Oaks and Estero Americano
- Bodega Marine Reserve water quality study of the Estero Americano
- Protecting biodiversity on our lands
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May 2010
- Celebrating the Jenner Headlands — and introducing The Wildlands Conservancy
- Springtime bounty — getting out on the land!
- Birds point to habitat health at the Jenner Headlands
- Sonoma County is “A Painter’s Paradise”
- Matching gift deadline extended to May 31
- Hiking the Jenner Headlands
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April 2010
- Trekking from Tolay Lake to Tolay Creek
- Lend a hand and get out on the land!
- Making room for rare plants to grow
- Managing cultural resources at Little Black Mountain
- Jean Schulz extends matching gift deadline to May 31
- New map shows SLT’s protected lands
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February 2010
- More than 25,000 acres protected!
- Cow Patty Pageant a success
- Support your local native plant nursery!
- Meeting with our neighbors in Jenner
- Milo Baker CNPS Chapter
- Sonoma County Environmental Awards Dinner
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January 2010
- Scenic Bennett Valley property and wildlife corridor protected
- Going to the birds for a day
- Getting ready for baaaackpacking
- Out on a limb for fire safety
- Artisan Cheese Festival returns
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December 2009
- JENNER HEADLANDS — PROTECTED FOREVER!
- Celebrating the season
- Troughs on Tolay help protect native plants
- Species moving up higher and north
- Ballot measure to support state parks
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November 2009
- License plates to protect Bay Area open space
- Double the Value of Your Year-end Donation!
- Fêting and recognizing our volunteers
- SSU students conduct “RDM” monitoring at Estero Americano Preserve
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October 2009
- Global Climate Action Day
- Paul DeMarco joins SLT staff
- Jean Schulz’s matching gift
- Ruth Ann Swenson enchants her audience
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September 2009
- Jean Schulz offers $2 million matching gift to advance campaign
- SLT compiles plant book for Estero Americano Preserve
- Conservation planning at Pitkin Marsh
- Youth group helps steward the Baylands
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August 2009
- Velvet grass studied at Estero Americano Preserve
- Estero livestock operator wins conservation award
- Baylands Pavilion is on track
- SLT hosts youth ecology project
- Transit and Trails — a new resource
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July 2009
- What’s happening with Jenner?
- Grassland monitoring project launched at Estero
- Plant propagators needed!
- Mapping grant awarded to SLT
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May 2009
- Little Black Mountain Preserve turns 30
- Commemorating Nefertierra
- Special trail day at Laufenburg
- From farm to table — a tasty adventure
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April 2009
- Flowers gone wild at Sears Point
- Food for thought at Artisan Cheese Festival
- Visions of Jack London on top of the mountain
- Pitkin Marsh is for the birds
- New life springing from old
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March 2009
- Wildflowers are a-bloomin’
- Come on a wildflower hike with us!
- SF Foundation awards matching grant — April 30 deadline
- Protecting native plants at Pitkin
- SLT volunteers support native plant nursery
- Getting to know our neighbors
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February 2009
- Brainy and brawny Go-to Gang gets into gear
- Students clean up Laufenburg Ranch
- Boosting SLT at Wild Steelhead Festival
- Studying the cultural and historic resources at Little Black Mountain
- Our landscapes and the Sonoma Land Trust — here forever!
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January 2009
- Sonoma Mountain Ranch protected!
- SLT staff visit with Jenner community
- Boy Scouts lend a hand at the Estero Americano Preserve
- Our supporters protect the land
- Welcome new members!
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