Wildflower Hikes: Apr. 4th & 25th.  Join us for an exciting day of hiking among the beautiful wildflowers of the Preserve. Each spring the Preserve's wildflower display covers the coastal hills with an amazing array of California native wildflowers.  On the 4th we will be joined by botanist extraordinaire, Peter Warner, who will share his vast knowledge of California's flora with us. Click here to sign up.

Ecology of the Preserve:  May 2nd.  Come out and hike with us as we explore redwood groves, rivers and creeks, and coastal prairie grasslands on the Jenner Headlands.  Along the way we will discuss the natural history and ecology of these three diverse habitats and talk about how we are diligently working to bring back the big trees, restore native fisheries, and maintain the incredible habitat diversity found in coastal prairie grasslands.  During the hike we will talk about ecologically-based management practices that are the key to our restoration activities. Click here to sign up.

Workday: May 23rd.  Please join us for work day of removing pampas grass from the Preserve's coastal prairie grasslands.  Over the last few years we have made good headway in controlling and reducing this invasive plant species.  Help us keep this plant in check and create a space for natives to thrive.  Click here to sign up.

As we do every year, we held our annual community meeting at the Jenner Community Center in early March to give everyone an update on our natural resource and public recreation management activities.  We had a good turn-out of local folks interested in learning more about the Preserve and had an extensive question and answer period afterward.  At the meeting we handed out our new Public Recreation Fact Sheet to give everyone a quick way to learn about where we are in the process of providing open public recreation on designated trails.  To download the Fact Sheet and learn more, click here.

If you missed our community meeting and are interested to learn more, we will be holding two meet and greets at the Jenner State Parks Visitor's Center in the town of Jenner on April 11th and May 9th, from 9-12pm.  If you have time, please come by to talk to one of our staff and ask questions.  We will have a table set up in front of the Visitor's Center with information on the Preserve. Hope to see you there!

If you're a nature lover and like to learn about the plants and animals that surround us, then you have to check out our iNaturalist website. iNaturalist is a place where you can record what you see, meet other nature lovers, and learn about the natural world.  Not only that, but if you are interested in learning more about the plants of the Preserve, you can now access our interactive field guides.  You can check them out on your computer, or, using the iNaturalist smartphone app, you can download our guides to your phone and use them out in the field even when you don't have phone reception!  The folks over at iNaturalist seem to have thought of everything and our field guides will help you learn about the Preserve's plants before, during, and after one of our guided hikes. Just visit the iNaturalist field guide webpage by clicking this link and searching or scrolling to the Jenner Headlands Preserve's two plant guides.  The online guides are fully interactive with a search feature to search for a particular plant if you wish, and each species account is linked to a plethora of online databases that will allow you to dig down and learn more about any particular plant to your hearts desire.