The folks at Audubon Canyon Ranch are hosting a volunteer workday soon in case you want to get your hands dirty and do some good. It will take place at their Mayacamas Mountain Sanctuary property about seven miles northeast of Healdsburg on Wednesday, Feb. 13, from 1 to 4 p.m. Here’s the official info: “Invasives work day. Join Dave Self and Sherry Adams for a half day of restoration. We will focus on manual removal of milk thistle. This introduced… Read More »
Sometimes those automated cameras that are set up deep inside parks show some interesting visitors. At the Modini Ingalls Ecological Preserve and Mayacamas Mountains Sanctuary, the 1,750-acre preserve northeast of Healdsburg, an Audubon Canyon Ranch motion-sensor camera captured this shot of a black bear at 8 p.m. on Aug. 31. The land, which has been owned by the Modini and Ingalls families for more than a century and was donated to the Audubon group, will never be developed and is… Read More »
I like the story (both the long and the short versions) of how the Bouverie Preserve came to be. In brief, the only daughter of John Jacob Astor IV married a gentleman architect named David Bouverie, who liked trails and open space. They divorced, but the mixture of her money and his passion and creativity ultimately led to the donation in 1979 of about 535 acres of prime land in the Valley of the Moon that will never be… Read More »
Summer chances to see herons, egrets and more in Bolinas.… Read More »
