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Come explore with us
Opportunities to visit Audubon Canyon Ranch
Martin Griffin Preserve Bouverie Preserve |
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 Join our volunteer field observers, and track heron and egret nesting sites throughout North Bay counties. You'll help protect nesting Great Blue Herons, Great Egrets, Snowy Egrets, Black-crowned Night Herons (shown here) and other species. Resulting data is used by scientists, researchers, planners, birding enthusiasts and local residents. We are especially in need of folks in Napa and Solano counties. Contact 415.663.8203 or email cgrc@egret.org.
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Audubon Canyon Ranch presents...
The Art of Eating Sunday, June 3, 2012
1 pm - 4:30 pm
The Bouverie Preserve Please join us for tastings of local food and wine, a live and silent auction, and special culinary selections from Women Who Changed the
Way We Eat Tickets on sale now |
Stewarding Tomales Bay
John Kelly, PhD, ACR Director of Conservation Science, recently presented to the Tomales Bay Watershed Council the "Species of Local Interest in the Tomales Bay Watershed" report.
This report is the result of a major effort by Council members to catalog and rank the native and non-native species of conservation or management concern for the Tomales Bay Watershed. Their hope is that this effort will serve to guide and focus future management of our natural resources.
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A Sense of Wonder
 Folks have been immersed in learning recently on ACR's best-known preserves. Docent training is underway at the Bouverie Preserve, and Ranch Guide training and Advanced Docent Training are taking place at the Martin Griffin Preserve. These dedicated folks will soon impart their knowledge of ecology on the thousands of schoolchildren and visitors who will explore ACR sanctuaries this spring.
As Rachel Carson wrote in The Sense of Wonder, " If I had influence, I should ask that the gift to all children in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength." |
Outside
What's all that noise?
If you live anywhere near nesting Red-shouldered or Red-tailed Hawks, you'll know it. The loud persistent yakking of resident Red-shouldered Hawks is hard to miss. This is their breeding season, so there is much to yak about.
Did you know that Red-shouldered and Red-tailed Hawks mate for life? They also tend to re-use their breeding territories, so the pair you hear is probably the same pair you heard last year. And the year before... |
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Audubon Canyon Ranch 
415.868.9244 Audubon Canyon Ranch protects nature through land preservation, environmental education and conservation science. |
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