Amazing Northern California Ranch | Timberlock Ranch Mendocino County, California
Situated on the banks of Mendocino's majestic Noyo River between Willits and Fort Bragg, Timberlock Ranch's 350 acres comprises arguably one of California's finest privately held redwood stands. Walking the redwood strewn valley floor with rays of sunlight casting in from above accompanied only by the sound of the Noyo River is reminiscent of entering the most sacred of cathedrals. Adding to the surreal setting is the fact the entrance of the ranch plays host to the Skunk Train Station where the historic steam locomotive transverses a portion of the ranch as it chugs its way from the interior to the coast at Fort Bragg. Furthering the historic lure of Timberlock Ranch is the remnants of a significant Northern Pomo Indian settlement. The combination of unparalleled natural beauty and living nostalgia makes Timberlock Ranch a truly one of a kind holding.
The ranch has a approximately 4 million board feet of redwood and 1 million board feet of Douglas Fir*. There is a Non Industrial Timber Management Plan (NTMP) in place that has yet to be implemented. Besides its substantial value as a redwood timber preserve the ranch is graced with a tastefully constructed alpine chalet, work shop/barn and a separate guesthouse. There are over 10 miles of roads and hiking trails making for easy access to all the ranch’s interior and to the deep swimming holes along the Noyo as well as providing access to viewing the wildlife that abounds on the ranch including black bear, Colombian Blacktail Deer, turkey, bobcat, puma, mountain and valley quail, etc.. The river and streams also play host to coho and steelhead rushing up from the Pacific Ocean to spawn.
The land stewardship is evident at every turn as well as the stellar state of the infrastructure. Close to a million dollars has been spent on stream and forest restoration and other material improvements. This is truly a turn key property which exemplifies “Pride of Ownership”.
With 4 and possibly 5 legal parcels in place comprising of over 350 acres, the possibilities for sustainable forestry for long term revenue generation, carbon credit potential and/or conservation easement potential compounded with the ability to recreationally utilize the land is what sets Timberlock Ranch apart. Few ranch properties offer the Buyer the ability to earn money to this extent while at the same time enjoying the ranch for its non-material aspects.
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Iowa Land and Sky: Loess Hills And Prairies
Journey from the prairies of central Iowa to the Loess Hills on our state's western rim to experience the scenic vistas, geologic history and environmental challenges facing these landforms.
Making History Personal: Preserve Montana's historic Nevada City Cemetery
What price can you put on family? history? community? Our historic cemeteries reflect the continuity of community and family. But what becomes of the cemetery when there are little to no families left to care for it? George Eliot wrote Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. The Nevada City historic cemetery is just such a cemetery whose sole champion and caretaker is Virginia City resident Evalyn Batten Johnson whose parents, brother and husband are all buried there and in a small empty space at the end of the family row, lies her own plot in wait. The Extreme History Project is helping Evalyn reach her dream of a plan for preserving this historic place. We are implementing a project to map, document and assess the needs of the historic Nevada City Cemetery and are requesting the public's help to make it happen. Nevada City and its cemetery are just a stone's throw from historic Virginia City, Montana, the territorial capital from 1865-1875. The rise of Nevada City coincides with this history of Virginia City and the early history of the state. Preliminary fieldwork began last summer when 200+ unmarked graves were determined. Our project would entail digital mapping of the cemetery (the original plat map has disappeared) including the unmarked graves which have never been mapped; assessing the condition of the extant headstones and preparing a report for ongoing preservation efforts; researching the unmarked graves and providing a memorial plaque listing the known names of those buried in unmarked graves; providing a marker for the unmarked graves themselves to insure no accidental or purposeful disturbance; and securing the flagpole to deter theft (an ongoing problem has been the disappearance of the American Flag at the cemetery). The work at Nevada City Cemetery will support a larger effort to locate and preserve several historic cemeteries in Virginia City. These efforts fall outside the very limited cemetery budget which provides for Virginia City's primary cemetery, Sunset Hills. Your help will ensure that these cemeteries and their eternal residents will truly rest in peace. Thank you for your support.
Inland Empire All-Star Classic
The 33rd IE all-star Classic returns as the best high school football players from Riverside and San Bernardino counties battle it out to see who's best. LIVE from Centennial high school in Corona CA
Bizarre bird migrations could be linked to drought and scarce food
(2 Mar 2012)
Mad Island, Texas - 16 February 2012
1. Wide of large pink birds taking flight in the Mad Island Nature Conservancy
2. Bird perched on rock
3. Wide of Mad Island sign
4. Mid of bird expert making bird calls
5. Close of Bird expert Richard Kostecke making and listening to bird calls
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Richard Kostecke, Bird expert, Mad Island Nature Conservancy:
The big news this year in Texas was the weather and fire. So, we had actually a one-year drought of record, so it's the worst drought, single-year drought that Texas has seen. We've also had historic wild fires, spanning across the state.
7. Wide of waterway
8. Wide of low water mark seen on rock
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Richard Kostecke, Bird expert, Mad Island Nature Conservancy:
So some of the things we're seeing particularly with birds, is there is either direct loss of habitat, so you don't have wetlands available for some of these species any more. Habitat quality and condition is just poor. The vegetation didn't do well this year, it didn't put out buds, it didn't flower, it didn't put out seed or fruit, so a lot of those food sources are lower than they might be.
10. Wide of muddy water
11. Wide of sparse grass in water
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Richard Kostecke, Bird expert, Mad Island Nature Conservancy:
So we're seeing smaller numbers of many birds that we typically expect more of, but it's also causing some displacement. The birds have to find suitable habitats, so they're moving around different places.
Mad Island, Texas - December 2011, Exact date unknown
13. Wide of whooping cranes
14. Mid of cranes
Mad Island, Texas - 16 February 2012
15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Richard Kostecke, Bird expert, Mad Island Nature Conservancy:
They also have some whooping cranes that are wintering as far north as Nebraska, which is very unusual. And there is a whole bunch of cranes, roughly about a third of the known population that have not yet been accounted for.
16. Wide of small white bird
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Richard Kostecke, Bird expert, Mad Island Nature Conservancy:
We have some ducks that have gone unusually far south. So there is the country of Belize apparently had a bunch of new records of different species of waterfowl that they've never seen before.
Mad Island, Texas - December 2011, Exact date unknown
18. Wide of whooping cranes flying
Mad Island, Texas - 16 February 2012
19. Wide of large birds in distance
STORYLINE:
From whooping cranes spending their entire winter in Canada to ducks flying farther south than normal, scientists in Texas have noticed some strange trends in bird migrations of late.
They believe flocks are becoming more desperate for food and habitat, which have become scarce because of the state's stubborn drought.
The unusually mild winter in the Northeast and Midwest has even persuaded some birds they could stay put, fly shorter distances or turn back north earlier than normal.
The list is disturbing.
Endangered whooping cranes flew 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometres) from Canada to Texas, where they usually spend the whole winter.
They pecked around a little before turning around and flying back.
In Nebraska, other cranes never left.
Some ducks just kept flying south, all the way to Belize in Central America.
A snowy owl was spotted near Dallas, only the sixth time that's ever happened.
Migratory birds often use the winter months to rest, eat and gain energy for the long journey back to their nesting grounds, so biologists can only guess at the effects of this season's peculiar movements.
We had actually a one-year drought of record, so it's the worst drought, single-year drought that Texas has seen. We've also had historic wild fires, spanning across the state.
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Texas Quail Index
Dr. Dale Rollins with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service discusses the form & function of the Texas Quail Index projects.
USDA Helps American Indian Tribe Restore Land
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The Audubon California Bobcat Ranch
Audubon California acquired the Bobcat Ranch in 2007. Located just outside of Winters, California, our Landowner Stewardship Program is using the ranch as a laboratory of sorts for learning how conservation and restoration can be made part of working lands throughout the state.
Kern County Board of Supervisors 2:00 p.m. meeting for Tuesday, Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Official meeting agenda is available here:
Hearst Castle, Ranch, Auctioneer, Buffalo Ranching - Americas Heartland
Rob Stewart takes us to the ranch of William Randolph Hearst. One of the most famous locations in America is home to a special grass fed cattle operation. Kristen Simoes travels down South to meet an Alabama woman rancher working to improve the environment. Jason Shoultz heads for the World Cattle Auctioneering Contest. An Arkansas ranch raises big big buffalo.
California’s Environmental Challenges
What is the most important environmental issue the state faces today? Sonja Petek of the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) tells how Californians responded to this question in the annual PPIC Statewide Survey on the environment. Then, a panel of experts provides their answers. They are Assemblymember Richard Bloom, Anne Baker of the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies, and Robert Lapsley of the California Business Roundtable. The moderator is PPIC’s David Lesher.
'Saving Wildlife: Texas' special on KPRC2
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Great Writers of the West: John Steinbeck and the Environment (ArtsWest 2017)
Presentations from the ArtsWest symposium at Stanford University on May 10, 2017.
The world seemed on the brink of catastrophe when John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath in 1939. Today we are confronted with our own cataclysmic moment in time. Steinbeck’s compassionate explorations of inequality, poverty-induced human migration, and environmental degradation yield insights we are at pains to grasp. As perhaps no other novelist before or since, Steinbeck had a fundamental ecological awareness. He shows us that people are not separate from the land on which we tread, and in fact share a common fate.
Living Steinbeck by Valentin Lopez, Amah Mutsun Tribal Band
The Ecology of Humans by William Souder, Writer
We Ain't Foreign: Race, Land, and Nation in Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrathby Sarah Wald, University of Oregon, Department of English and Environmental Studies Program
Sea of Cortez and the 'Toto Picture' by Mary Ellen Hannibal, Writer
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral by Gavin Jones, Stanford University, Department of English
Steinbeck's Holism, Susan Shillinglaw, National Steinbeck Center
Over Wyoming
WyomingPBS takes cameras aloft to explore the sweeping beauty of the Cowboy State and finds etched on the land, history as vast as its horizons and human stories as intricate as its streams. Narrated by Pete Simpson.
Atomic Fracking in Wyoming: Project Wagon Wheel
In the late 1960's a Texas gas company proposed detonating five atomic bombs beneath Sublette County to release natural gas. Atomic Fracking in Wyoming tells how local residents, with an assist from a Wyoming Congressman, blocked Project Wagon Wheel.
The Story of America's Wild Horses and Burros
Released May 2012 - Produced by the Bureau of Land Management, this video helps us better understand how the BLM came to manage federally protected wild horses and burros on millions of acres of public lands across the West. Current and former BLM employees, historians, horse advocates, and others tell their parts of this continuing story.
From the DVD Cover:
The public lands of the Western United States are diverse, ruggedly beautiful, and majestic - as are the horses and burros that live there. These animals are born with the colors of the land upon them. The browns, blacks, reds, blues, dapple grays, and snowy whites all reflect nature's paint brush.
Today, America's wild horses and burros are found in 10 western states. It is the BLM's responsibility to preserve and protect healthy herds of wild free-roaming horses and burros as components of the public lands.
The Wild Horse Annie Act of 1959 and the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971 gave wild horses and burros a legal right to live on public lands without harassment. The Adopt-A-Horse or Burro Program was initiated in 1973 to meet the challenges of balancing the health of public lands with the health of the wild horses and burros.
To read about many adoption success stories, go to facebook.com/BLMWildhorseandburro.
To learn how you can adopt a wild horse or burro, visit blm.gov, call 866-4-Mustangs (866-468-7826) or email wildhorse@blm.gov.
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Pick Peaches, Farm to Fork, Starwberry, Tropical, Market - America's Heartland
Reporter Yolanda Vazquez takes you to Delaware where on farmer lets his customers do the picking. An Alabama chef celebrates local food producers with his own Farm to Table movement. Chef Sharon Profis serves up an unusual pork recipe with a strawberry sauce and delivers a simple strawberry dessert favorite. Reporter Sarah Gardner takes us to Hawaii where a tropical farmers market serves locals and visitors alike.
Thomas Woltz, “Threatened Landscapes: Designed Countermeasures of N. B. W. Landscape Architects”
Public parks are a source of civic identity for the communities they serve – inclusivity and authenticity are crucial. Similarly, memorials are bastions of democratic exchange and act as repositories of our cultural past and evolution. Thomas Woltz will present projects from the portfolio of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects (NBW) that demonstrate the power of the firm’s research-based design to reframe our relationship with civic, ecological, and cultural systems within the public realm. Lastly, Thomas will present NBW projects that prioritize the ecological health and resilience in agriculturally productive landscapes and reveal surprising connections between these typologies.
Over the past two decades of practice, landscape architect Thomas Woltz has forged a body of work that integrates the beauty and function of built forms with an understanding of complex biological systems and restoration ecology. As principal of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects (NBW), a 45-person firm based in Charlottesville, Virginia and New York City, Woltz has infused narratives of the land into the places where people live, work and play, deepening the public’s enjoyment of the natural world and inspiring environmental stewardship. NBW projects create models of biodiversity and sustainable agriculture within areas of damaged ecological infrastructure and working farmland, yielding hundreds of acres of reconstructed wetlands, reforested land, and flourishing wildlife habitat.
Presently, Thomas and NBW are entrusted with the design of major public parks across the United States, Canada and New Zealand, they include Memorial Park in Houston, Hudson Yards in New York City, NoMA Green in Washington DC, Cornwall Park in Auckland, the Aga Khan Garden in Alberta, Canada, and three parks in Nashville, including Centennial Park.
In 2013 was named Design Innovator of the Year by the Wall Street Journal magazine and in 2017 Fast Company named Woltz one of the most creative people in business.
City of Santa Rosa Council Meeting Part 2 January 14, 2020
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