Archive for Land Stewardship
Land Stewardship Feature: Conservation Grazing
By Meghan Scanlon, Conservation Project ManagerConservation grazing is an important stewardship method currently practiced on a variety of POST-owned properties. Most notable of these is Toto Ranch, 925 acres on the San Mateo Coast. Here, cattle, llamas, horses, sheep and goats graze the land, contributing to the overall health of the landscape.
A look at the animals on Toto Ranch:
Horse and foal
Healing Habitat on Cloverdale Coastal Ranches
Jeff Powers, Cloverdale Project ManagerBack in August, I joined a team from Go Native out on Cloverdale Coastal Ranches, one of POST’s largest coastal properties. Go Native, a company focusing on habitat restoration, has helped POST with several projects in the last few years. With their help, we managed to restore an old livestock pond choked by vegetation that had created unhealthy conditions for two species that call this pond home: Endangered San Francisco garter snake and Threatened California red-legged frog. Along with establishing a better habitat for these reptiles, Go Native also repaired the dam on the property.
Here is a before shot of the pond:
Before view of the pond at Cloverdale
Click below to see the restoration work unfold and the final result.
Bear Creek Redwoods: Hiking Among Giants
Paul Ringgold, Director of Land StewardshipRecently, I joined a group of POST staff and supporters at Bear Creek Redwoods, an astounding property nestled on the edge of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The property is just packed with redwoods, including some old-growth.
We were lucky to be out there on this particular morning, the fog peeling back off the ridges of the Santa Cruz Mountains and light streaming through breaks in the towering redwoods. We hiked down to Webb Creek and stopped to enjoy the beautiful sights where the trail crosses over the creek.
Webb Creek
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