Bodega Land Trust is extremely pleased to announce Mark Jacobsen's donation of Title to the important Tannery Creek Reserve (TCR) property to BLT. For almost 12 years, BLT has held a Conservation Easement on TCR, a beautiful 187.2 acre property that includes Tannery Creek canyon and its surrounding redwoods, owned by Mark Jacobsen. Mark is retiring sometime in the next several years and decided to protect TCR for the long term by donating the title to it to BLT, which was accomplished just before the New Year! Thanks to Mark for preserving this special property and for his support over the many years! BLT looks forward to working with the Tannery Creek Reserve Neighborhood Association, which together with Mark, has forged an impressive stewardship approach for the land. More on this exciting event in a future eNotes, but for now, suffice it to say that the Tannery Creek Reserve is truly protected for posterity.
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For 40 years, Bodega quilters have been making gorgeous quilts, one every year, to raffle off to support worthy local causes. For many of those years the Bodega Fire Department has been the recipient of the Bodega Quilt Raffle proceeds.
This year, Bodega Land Trust has been honored in memory of the passing of two of their cherished leaders in the last two years, Sandy Sharp (2019) and Don Sherer (2020). Proceeds will go to BLTand the Bodega Volunteer Fire Department.
Because of this the 40th Bodega Quilt is very special and very beautiful. You see below the poster made up of the individual pieces before being assembled into the quilt.
Go to the eNotes section of this Website and read the stories about the quilt and its individual pieces.
You can support BLT by purchasing tickets when you see the Quilt on display at local Markets at the pricing noted on the flyer below. You can also purchase tickets through our Donate button! If you do this, we would appreciate your donation of $20 or more and for every $20 donation, you will receive 24 chances to win this beautiful Bodega Quilt.
The winning ticket will be drawn on November 30, 2021, at 6pm on the patio at the Casino in Bodega. Stay and have dinner at the “Holly & Tali Show” at the Casino.
To buy raffle tickets by Donating to BLT, just use the Donate Now!featureon theBLT Website homepage. When you enter an amount and select Donate, you can choose to pay with PayPal or with a Debit/Credit Card, and we will take it from there. Make sure to enter a comment with your payment that it is for Quilt Raffle tickets.
When the raffle drawing is done, and if you win, we will contact you using your Donation contact information.
Bodega Land Trust greatly appreciates your generous donations!
To ring the new year, Bodega Land Trust received from Sonoma Land Trust a convservation easement over a beautiful quarter-mile stretch of Coleman Valley Creek west of Occidental. The creek which runs across a property donated to Sonoma Land Trust in 2017 is a major tributary of Salmon Creek, It is a priority for our land and water protection work in the watershed.
The new easement is named after Alden Gilchrist, who loved the underlying property and whose partner generously donated the land to the Sonoma Land Trust. We are grateful for our partnership with Sonoma Land Trust, which increases our opportunities to protect the Salmon Creek watershed.
Just inland from the beautiful Pacific coast in western Sonoma County is an agricultural and environmental jewel with its own unique watershed. The significance of conserving this working ranchland and its native grasses, riparian habitat, and spring-fed creeks cannot be overstated. Threatened steelhead and freshwater shrimp can still be found in the creeks; endangered Coho salmon are being restored to waterways where they have not been seen for a decade. The coastal prairie and grasslands are temporary home to migratory birds and water fowl, particularly with the proximity to critical nesting grounds near Bodega Bay.
Another completed project: The rare coastal prairie meets the redwood mist forest in southwest Sonoma County
A unique ranch of almost 1000 acres, located in western Sonoma County, California, exemplifies this important ecosystem. A conservation easement was granted to Bodega Land Trust in February 2021, culminating years of planning and effort.
The property includes the transition zone between coastal prairie and redwood forest and supports organic agriculture, incredible biodiversity, and habitat for several endangered and threatened species. Protection will include the aquifers and surface water that are a primary source for domestic water, livestock, and fisheries.
Bodega Land Trust will monitor this easement, and work with lessees to establish and implement a management plan.
New projects
Bodega Land Trust is actively working on new conservation easements as well as undertaking a major planning update to its Strategic Plan.
How you can help
Your donation to Bodega Land Trust will help conserve this incredible piece of western Sonoma County forever. Please give us a call at 1(707)874-9001to discuss the various ways you can be part of making this historic easement a reality.
If you do shopping via amazon.com then here is another way of donating without actually donating. I know it's confusing but here's how this works. Amazon has a program named Amazon Smile. All you need to do is just simply login using https://smile.amazon.com, choose the organization you wish to support (in this case... Bodega Land Trust!) and shop!
Amazon will donate a small amount to us everytime you shop without adding anything to your bill. For more information on how to sign up, check the video above.
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