MONTHLY eNEWS

2024

December 2024

  • End-of-year message from leadership
  • The impact you have made in 2024 – a video!
  • Read the Impact Report in English and Spanish
  • Small urban parks that make a big impact
  • Supporting nature at the voting booth invests millions

November 2024

  • A message from Shannon Nichols
  • Monitoring the Drake easement restoration
  • A “decently outdoorsy” couple finds the Land Trust
  • Land Trust Legacy Challenge
  • Prop. 4 passes!

October 2024

  • Why restoring nature is important
  • Winter storms test Lakeville Creek restoration site
  • Our Prescribed Burns are working at Laufenburg Ranch
  • Nuestras quemas prescritas están trabajando en Laufenburg Ranch
  • A day with our Stewardship technicians Grant and Bianca
  • A decade of restoration at Tolay Creek
  • Tax-smart ways to show your support

September 2024

  • Why we support CA Prop. 4 [English / Español]
  • Meet our Advocacy team
  • Investments in nature can work, here’s how
  • Force for Nature Paul Stange
  • Legacy challenge – $1,000 for each new member
  • BioBlitz at Glen Oaks Ranch
  • Welcoming new staff
  • Events & Outings
  • Staff recommendation on voter guides

August 2024

  • Six stories for summer
  • A Force for Nature spotlight: Dianne Brinson
  • Land Trust Legacy Challenge
  • Member Appreciation Day
  • Two policy wins for climate change and conservation
  • Welcoming new staff

July 2024

  • Youth programs that spark connections to nature
  • Meet the Conservation Council Members
  • Enter the outdoor classroom with SLIME
  • What is the Familias al Aire Libre/Families Outdoors program?
  • Force For Nature Miles Horton
  • Good Fire Notifications
  • Concluding our 6-year Campaign on a high note
  • Events & Outings
  • Recommendations for podcasts

June 2024

  • The power of science on our land preserves
  • The science of coastal grazing
  • Spotting owls
  • Adapting to new food sources takes time
  • Celebrating our spring matching gift success
  • Celebrating our legacy league members

May 2024

  • Wildlife on the move
  • Seeking Migrators with Feminist Bird Club Member
  • Mountain Lions sharing a rare meal from ACR
  • Donor Spotlight: Maria Cardamone
  • Welcoming new staff
  • Webinars, events, and outings

April 2024

  • Our interconnected natural web
  • Wander through the wildflowers
  • Sarah Reid’s notes from the field
  • Welcoming new staff
  • Language of the Land Webinars
  • Events & Outings

February-March 2024

  • Lending a hand to our partners
  • Creating the Community Engagement Blueprint for Petaluma
  • The beginnings of a Greenway
  • Supporting an urban one-acre oasis
  • Thea and Linda of the Greenway show their support
  • Honoring our friend and colleague Julia Elkin

January 2024

  • Transitioning a family’s ranch to a public park [English / Español]
  • Accessing a mountain from your back door
  • Tolay Creek Ranch: Revitalizationa nd recreation
  • Welcoming new staff and board member

2023

December 2023

  • 2023 Impact Report
  • 2023 Year in Review video [English / Español]
  • Volunteer spotlight
  • New acquisition: McCormick Ranch
  • Events & Outings

November 2023

  • Mapping the poetic landscape of Sonoma
  • Programming a reconnection with nature
  • Giving Tuesday
  • New staff introductions
  • Outings

October 2023

  • Nurturing nature back to health [English / Español]
  • Meet your land stewards
  • Professional forester carries the torch
  • Language of the Land Webinar
  • Outings

September 2023

  • New acquisition in the Baylands ecosystem
  • Restoring a creek for rising waters
  • Elevating SR 37 – getting out of nature’s way
  • New staff introductions
  • Events & Outings

August 2023

  • Mapping urban heat islands [English / Español]
  • Mark West Area Park
  • Green infill
  • New Philanthropy Operations Associate
  • Events & Outings

July 2023

  • Six Sonoma species
  • Monitoring migration over Sonoma County skies [English / Español]
  • New Digital Marketing Manager
  • Member appreciation day
  • Events & Outings

June 2023

  • Regenerating Lakeville Creek
  • Reversing wells to refill aquifers [English/Español]
  • Reactivating a floodplain using beaver dam analogs
  • New board chair
  • Events & Outings

May 2023

  • Strategic plan 2023-2028 [English/Español]
  • Details on six focal strategies of strategic plan
  • New leadership at the Community Foundation Sonoma County
  • Language of the Land Webinar
  • Events & Outings

April 2023

  • Our strategic plan charrette [English / Español]
  • Transformative internships
  • Teens put science to work
  • Events & Outings

March 2023

  • Sonoma County: Biodiversity Hotspot
  • Vernal Pools Acquisition
  • Sonoma’s Robust Diversity [English / Español]
  • Events & Outings

February 2023

  • Returning Good Fire to the Landscape
  • The Students of Fire [English / Español]
  • Oak Hill Farm
  • Events & Outings

January 2023

  • Unpacking 30×30, California’s part in a global movement [English / Español]
  • A global road map to protect and restore nature
  • What Sonoma County has planned for 30×30
  • Events & Outings