Author: Michael Phillips

Ecker Ranch

Ecker Ranch Madera County Keeping a Promise to Protect a Family Treasure The 1,080-acre Ecker ranch is located in the Coarsegold area of the Sierra foothills of Madera County; one of California’s fastest growing regions of the great Central Valley. Everything around the ranch is changing, and pressure from developers

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East Sheridan Vernal Pool Preserve

East Sheridan Vernal Pool Preserve Placer County Collaborative Project Protects Critical Habitat Amidst Extreme Pressures In November 2005, California Rangeland Trust, in partnership with Wildlands Inc., completed a land preservation agreement that will permanently protect approximately 382 acres in Placer County; which at the time, was one of the fastest

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Dutchman Creek Ranch

Dutchman Creek Ranch Merced County Westervelt Ecological Services along with California Rangeland Trust placed a conservation easement through a mitigation conservation bank on 501 acres of the Dutchman Creek project located in Merced County in May 2014. As an organization, the Westervelt Company currently manages over one million acres of land

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DS Ranch

DS Ranch Plumas county Conservation Agreement to Pass on Land Stewardship & Ranching Legacy In March 2005, California Rangeland Trust completed a land preservation agreement on the 7,947-acre DS Ranch located in Plumas County. California Rangeland Trust also holds easements on two other ranches in the Sierra Valley- the Bar One

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Dry Creek Ranch

Dry Creek Ranch Merced County Protecting Against Fragmentation and Development The Dry Creek Ranch is located about 3 miles north of the town of Snelling and about 20 miles north of the town of Merced along La Grange Road, also known as Highway 59 in Merced County.  The Dry Creek

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Cunningham Ranch

Cunningham Ranch Merced Ranch Tempering Grown & Protecting Resource Rich Grazing Lands The Nature Conservancy transferred two conservation easements over the 2,067-acre Cunningham Ranch to the California Rangeland Trust in the early part of 2005.  Adjacent to the 3,861-acre Nelson Cattle Ranch where the California Rangeland Trust also holds a

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Centennial/Dressler Ranch

Centennial/Dressler Ranch Mono County Linking National, Wilderness, & Private Lands Located in the pristine Bridgeport Valley on the east slope of the Central Sierra Nevada, the historic 6,350-acre Centennial/Dressler Ranch is one of the last remaining undeveloped mountain valleys in California. The Centennial/Dressler Ranch contains the largest wetland complex along

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Carrizo Ranches

Carrizo Ranch San Luis Obispo County Preserving Endemic Central California Species Judith Friend, owner of the Carrizo Ranch, donated multiple conservation easements of over 27,000 acres of cattle ranch located approximately 36 miles due east of San Luis Obispo, along the southern foothills of the Carrizo Plain. The ranch sits within

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Horses grazing in the golden grass

Bufford Ranch

Bufford Ranch Kern County Eco-Region Diversity Provides Habitat for Rare Species The Bufford Ranch is located about 50 miles east of Bakersfield and 23 miles south of Lake Isabella on the north side of Walker Basin. Two conservation easements were placed on the ranch, one in 2013 and another in

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Bennett Ranches

Bennett Ranches Madera County Unfragmented Open Space for Natural Plant and Wildlife Habitat In January 2011, California Rangeland Trust received two donated conservation easements on Stone Corral, and Tombstone Acreage. The Bennett Ranches are in the central Sierra Nevada foothills of Madera County and possess significant conservation values. According to

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