This holiday season, support ACR and make a gift a gift!
 Make a donation today to help fund the land preservation and environmental education programs of Audubon Canyon Ranch, while taking care of a gift on your holiday shopping list.
Just tell us that your donation is in honor of a friend or loved one, and we will send them a letter announcing your support in their honor. |
Nature bookstore
Open for holiday shopping
ACR's Nature Bookstore at the Martin Griffin Preserve is open for holiday shopping. Shop for the experienced or budding nature enthusiast on your gift list, while supporting the ACR mission (100% of proceeds support nature-based education and land conservation!). Then take a post-shopping, rejuvenating hike!
Open now
through December 22nd
10am - 4pm Monday - Friday only (closed weekends)
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| Jim Modini Rancher, conservationist, animal lover
The ACR community mourns the passing of Jim Modini-rancher, land owner, conservationist, and lover of all creatures great and small. We send our sincere condolences to his wife, Shirley Modini.
Read more about Jim's life and his legacy of land conservation in a recent Press Democrat article.
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Love native plants? Become an ACR Steward
The Martin Griffin Preserve Steward volunteers restore and maintain the unique and diverse plant communities of ACR's Martin Griffin Preserve. The team meets weekly on Thursdays. read more... The Bouverie Preserve Stewards assist the resource ecologist with management and habitat restoration projects, such as trail work, planting native species, removing invasive plants that threaten the native species, and helping with fence repair which allows for our prescribed grazing program. The team meets weekly on Mondays. read more... |
Ranch Guide training Starts in January!
Become a Ranch Guide of ACR's Martin Griffin Preserve and share your knowledge and appreciation of nature with our Bay Area community during the awe-inspiring heron and egret nesting season.
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Juniper Committee honored at event
The Juniper Committee of Bouverie Preserve was honored at last month's STARS event at The Hanna Boys Center in Sonoma. Congrats, dedicated volunteers! You have earned it. read more... |
Science publications searchable online
Check it out on egret.org!
ACR's scientific contributions are now available via our online searching tool. ACR sciencists have been publishing their researching findings in journals, at conferences and in scientific publications since 1970. You can now search these publications by keyword, author or publication date on ACR's website. Pretty cool, if we do say so ourselves. Check out this cool feature. |
Outside Whose tail is that?
 If you said a mountain lion's, you're right! A tell-tail (sorry, we couldn't resist) feature of a mountain lion is their long balancing tail. This beauty is roaming past Cougar Pond at the Bouverie Preserve, captured digitally recently thanks to our motion-sensor camera. |
