The Audubon Christmas Bird Count hit one of California’s most spectacular landscapes today, the Tejon Ranch. You might recall that this is a new count, enabled by 2008′s landmark Tejon Ranch Agreement, which opened up this incredible landscape to science. Anyway, our Audubon Christmas Bird Count correspondent Alison Sheehey took these on the ranch’s south [...]

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Our Audubon Christmas Bird Count correspondent, Alison Sheehey, just sent us this photo of fellow-birder Ellen Schafhauser surveying a section of permanently protected land on the Bear Valley Springs CBC. Audubon and many partners helped to secure protection from development on this section of Tejon Ranch. The Tejon Ranch Conservancy is an appreciated partner of [...]

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About an hour’s drive east of Bakersfield is an amazing natural oasis that few Californians ever get a chance to see. The Kern River Valley is home to one of the largest contiguous riparian cottonwood forests in the state – which is a fancy way of saying that it’s an awesome place for birds. This [...]

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Dan Airola today reports the first sighting of a Purple Martin in the Sacramento area, and his is the only record of the bird in eBird. Coincidentally, Maggie Smith of Arroyo Grande also spotted a Purple Martin down in her neck of the woods, as well. Both of those birds likely came from as far [...]

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Imagine you’re a bird – a MacGillivray’s Warbler, for kicks – and you’re coming north through the southern part of California. You’ve just crossed the immense Mojave Desert, or the dry San Fernando and Antelope valleys. Suddenly you hit a wall of mountains, and it’s hard to imagine how you’re going to get around or [...]

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Staffers from Audubon California are participating in today’s Christmas Bird Count on Tejon Ranch. Before Audubon and four other environmental organizations struck a landmark conservation agreement with the Tejon Ranch Company in 2008, the natural treasures of this pristine wilderness were off limits to researchers. Since that agreement, however, Audubon has been able to add [...]

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OK, we normally try to stick to birds around here. But every once in a while we get something that must be shared. This falls into that category. This is a baby horned lizard that our friends at the Tejon Ranch Conservancy found in the field yesterday. Yes, that’s the palm of someone’s hand, and [...]

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In a move that ensures the lasting protection of some of California’s most ecologically important landscapes, the state of California today approved a grant to fund the purchase of conservation easements on 62,000 acres of the Tejon Ranch. The $15.8 million grant will establish one of the largest conservation easements in California history. The action [...]

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Last week, we shared a bunch of videos from new Audubon President David Yarnold’s recent trip to California. He’s written up an overview of his trip around the country that includes some nice moments from California, including an up close look at a Golden Eagle and this: “And at Debs Park, in the Latino heart [...]

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Experts from Audubon California recently joined the Tejon Ranch Conservancy and Western Field Ornithologists to survey Tejon Ranch for Purple Martins. Check out the video: Share on Facebook

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The Audubon Center at Debs Park’s Arroyo Green Team recently visited the Tejon Ranch at the invitation of the Tejon Ranch Conservancy. The group visited the General Beale Adobe and surrounding ranchlands. The Green Team had the opportunity to interact with the scientists with the Tejon Ranch Conservancy and learned about their conservation work.  The group explored two [...]

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If you’ve been out in the wild lately, you’ve no doubt noticed that the recent rains are producing wildflowers all over the place. Few places are offering wildflowers as well as the Tejon Ranch, site of the recent landmark conservation agreement. The good folks at the Tejon Ranch Conservancy sent us these photos taken yesterday [...]

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A great article in Audubon Magazine highlights the terrific research and conservation work being done on Tejon Ranch since a major conservation agreement protected up to 240,000 acres of the property in 2008. Share on Facebook

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Audubon California Executive Director Graham Chisholm writes today in the San Francisco Chronicle about the Tejon Ranch Conservation Agreement that set aside for permanent protection up to 240,000 acres of spectacular California wildlands: For decades, the 270,000-acre Tejon Ranch was California conservationists’ Holy Grail – and our greatest worry. Thanks to a landmark conservation agreement between [...]

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 A group of Junior Naturalists from the Audubon Center at Debs Park visited the Tejon Ranch last weekend at the invitation of the Tejon Ranch Conservancy. The group of young people learned about the recent agreement to preserve up to 240,000 acres of ecologically significant wildlands, and explored the terrain. In addition to observing birds, [...]

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