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Caring for the Land at Ya-Ka-Ama Indian Educational Center
September 12, 2024
Story by Miles Sarvis-Wilburn, Senior Stewardship Field Specialist Stewardship is a strengthening of the relationship between person and land. When we steward, we connect directly with the […]
Tags: growing community with nature, right relations, slow restoration, stewardship, wildfirefuelreduction
Dar y admirar: Vamos a Yosemite 2024
August 21, 2024
El grupo de Vamos a Yosemite con LandPaths llegó al emblemático parque nacional un viernes por la tarde, justo después de una breve tormenta de verano, en […]
Tags: branching out conservation for everyone, stewardship, vamos afuera, yosemite
Giving Back and Standing in Awe: Vamos a Yosemite 2024
August 21, 2024
The Vamos a Yosemite con LandPaths group arrived at the iconic national park on a Friday afternoon, just after a brief summer rainstorm, in passenger vans rented […]
Tags: branching out conservation for everyone, stewardship, vamos afuera, yosemite
How LandPaths Gets Ready for Summer Nature Camp Season
June 24, 2024
The morning sun peeks through the coastal clouds, birds caw and sing from their perches in the surrounding oaks, and 40 LandPaths’ staff and volunteers gather in the meadow at Bohemia Ecological Preserve for a daylong training […]
Tags: Owl Camp, Rooting Youth in Nature, volunteers
Community Partnership: Worker Leaders with North Bay Jobs with Justice Create Fuel Breaks at a LandPaths’ Preserve
June 18, 2024
Community partnerships lie at the heart of LandPaths’ mission to foster a love of the land in Sonoma County. In March, we collaborated with worker leaders with […]
Tags: growing community with nature, stewardship
Remembering Lorri Duckworth
April 30, 2024
Lorri Duckworth was one of those small family farmers who genuinely loved her produce. Even more so, she loved how people from all over the Bay Area, […]
Tags: duckworth family farm, environmental education, iooby, Rooting Youth in Nature
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
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