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:

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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.
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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 environmental [...]

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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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This was a big week for the Tejon Ranch Conservancy. The independent nonprofit – created as part of a landmark conservation agreement that set aside up to 240,000 acres of California wildlands,  this week celebrated its first year of work, and debuted its new website: www.tejonconservancy.org. In addition to naming its first Executive Director in Tom Maloney, the [...]

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On May 1, representatives of Audubon California co-sponsored a groundbreaking bird survey on the Tejon Ranch with the Tejon Ranch Conservancy. This was one of the first times that researchers had been allowed to collect information on the vast ecological assets of the ranch. The results were impressive. In one short 4-hour “bird blitz” in Sacatara [...]

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This week marks the first anniversary of the landmark Tejon Ranch Conservation Agreement, which ensures permanent protection for up to 240,000 contiguous acres of spectacular California wildlands. The agreement – reached by Audubon California and five other environmental groups with the Tejon Ranch Company – represents one of the most significant conservation victories in California [...]

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Biologists and volunteers from Audubon California and the Tejon Ranch Conservancy this weekend are taking part in a groundbreaking survey of birds on Tejon Ranch, a private, ecologically significant landscape in Southern California that has been off-limits to researchers for decades. Thanks to a recent conservation agreement between the owners of the sprawling property, the [...]

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On a field trip to Tejon Ranch’s newly-designated conservation lands, Audubon California Executive Director Graham Chisholm snapped this picture showing a tree full of condors. The final count was 11 condors in one tree and another 5 roosting nearby. Sixteen condors represents 5 percent of the total captive and free-flying population, 9 percent of the wild California Condors, [...]

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Tejon Ranch Conservancy, an independent nonprofit overseeing stewardship of newly protected portions of the Tejon Ranch, has its first executive director. Thomas Maloney, an expert in resource management and a veteran of The Nature Conservancy, will lead the team protecting and restoring lands on the Tejon Ranch and create opportunities for the public to enjoy [...]

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In something of a surprise, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service late yesterday released its environmental impact report regarding a conservation plan being proposed by the Tejon Ranch Company for its proposed Tejon Mountain Village development. The L.A. Times has the story on its Greenspace blog.
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Los Angeles Times Reporter Louis Sahagun has some insights into the Tejon Ranch Company’s conservation plan, which must be approved before construction can begin on TRC’s Tejon Mountain Village:
A developer’s draft conservation proposal aimed at clearing the way for approval of a construction project  in the Tehachapi Mountains would prohibit the issuing of permits to [...]

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The Bakersfield California writes today that an important draft conservation plan for the Tejon Ranch should be released within a month. The plan will include conservation strategies for the California Condor and several other threatened or endangered species. The plan’s approval is required before the Tejon Ranch Company can move foward with its Tejon Mountain [...]

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