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Discover the World of Native California Grasslands!
April 25, 2024
Story by Lara O’Herlihy, Stewardship Field Specialist I’m sitting on a grassy hillside in the Coleman Valley Creek drainage that overlooks the ocean, pulling the invasive bracypodium […]
Tags: grassblast, grasslands, growing community with nature, oceansong, stewardship
Students Make More Nature and Science Connections through New Environmental Education Pathways Project in Sonoma County
February 5, 2024
Students Make New Connections WithEnvironmental Education Pathways On a brisk and sunny day at Glen Oaks Ranch, 3rd graders from Flowery Elementary School chat merrily as they hike […]
Tags: environmental education, iooby, Rooting Youth in Nature
Reflections: Slow Restoration Community Forestry Project for Women and Nonbinary Participants
November 20, 2023
By Lara O’Herlihy, Stewardship Field Specialist This past October, fourteen strangers met for the first time at Riddell Preserve, LandPaths’ 400-acre protected open space preserve in the […]
Tags: forestry, growing community with nature, riddell preserve, slow restoration, stewardship, wildfirefuelreduction
What’s It Like to Participate in a Prescribed Burn?
October 17, 2023
by Miles Sarvis-Wilburn, Stewardship Field Specialist at LandPaths I arrived at LandPaths’ Ocean Song/Myers Preserve at 7:30am, the sun rising over a thick ocean of fog, and […]
Tags: growing community with nature, stewardship
Reflections on Interconnection in a California Coastal Prairie
August 7, 2023
by Miles Sarvis-Wilburn Stewardship Field Specialist The grasslands at Bohemia Ecological Preserve are California coastal prairie, a protected and unique habitat that contains an incredible amount of species […]
Tags: growing community with nature, stewardship, Volunteer
Fostering a Love of the Land as a LandPaths’ Intern: An Interview with Andrew Magdaleno
May 26, 2023
An internship is an excellent way to gain experience in the field of community conservation in Sonoma County. In the second installment of a new interview series […]
Tags: intern, internship, participate, stewardship, Volunteer, young stewards
Fostering a Love of the Land as a LandPaths’ Intern – An Interview with Calvin Howell
May 23, 2023
Photo by Emmaline Jones – Willowflower Photography An internship is an excellent way to get involved with LandPaths in diverse ways. In this first installation of a […]
Tags: intern, internship, participate, stewardship, Volunteer
A Classroom Takes to the Land: A Day of Environmental Philosophy & Stewardship with Santa Rosa Junior College students
October 25, 2022
by Miles Sarvis-Wilburn, Stewardship Field Specialist I met Professor Alexa Forrester for the first time at a LandPaths’ volunteer stewardship day. A professor of Philosophy at Santa […]
Tags: environmental education, growing community with nature, riddell preserve, stewardship
Covid Policies at LandPaths
October 21, 2022
For 25 years LandPaths has actively worked for land and community in Sonoma County. Our commitment is further strengthened during the immense mental, physical, and financial challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. Since March of 2020, when shelter-in-place […]
Tags: Covid-19
LandPaths receives $700,000 Outdoor Equity Grants Program grant from California State Parks.
June 16, 2022
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 16, 2022 Contact: Leilani Clark, Communications Lead Email: [email protected] Cell: (707) 332-4736 LandPaths receives $700,000 Outdoor Equity Grants Program grant from California State […]
Tags: Bayer Farm, branching out conservation for everyone, grants, nature for all, outdoor equity, partners, young stewards
The Community Rallied to Plant 4400 Redwood Saplings at Rancho Mark West in ONE Weekend
December 9, 2021
A warm and hearty thank you to everyone who helped plant redwood saplings at Rancho Mark West with LandPaths! Volunteers showed up for the land and community big time, joining together to plant […]
Tags: growing community with nature, mark west creek, nature-based solutions, participate, rancho mark west, redwoods, stewardship
Hundreds of Roseland Middle Schoolers Get Outside with LandPaths’ Inspired Forward
October 21, 2021
“This is gorgeous!” declares an 8th grader from Roseland Accelerated Middle School, looking across the waves of native grasslands billowing towards stands of redwood, oak, madrone, and bay trees, underneath a blue sky stippled with clouds at Bohemia Ecological Preserve. The Dutch Bill Watershed, where Bohemia is located, is the […]
Tags: Bohemia Ecological Preserve, environmental education, Inspired Forward, Rooting Youth in Nature, Roseland Public Schools, stewardship
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