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Covered Species

LISTED, CANDIDATE, AND OTHER SPECIES
COVERED IN THE 2003 NBHCP

Aleutian Canada Goose  Longhorn Beetle  
Swainson’s Hawk Delta Tule Pea
Giant Garter Snake Sanford’s Arrowhead
White-faced Ibis Loggerhead Shrike
Bank Swallow Burrowing Owl
Tricolored Blackbird Vernal Pool Fairy Shrimp
Northwestern Pond Turtle Vernal Pool Tadpole Shrimp
Valley Elderberry Midvalley Fairy Shrimp
California Tiger Salamander Western Spadefoot Toad
Colusa Grass Boggs Lake Hedge-hyssop
Sacramento Orcutt Grass Slender Orcutt Grass
Legenere  

Land Acquisition

CONSERVANCY LAND BY TRACT

 Name  Date Acquired Acres
 Silva  1.7.99 159
 Betts  4.5.99  139
 Kismat  4.16.99  40
 Bennett (C.L.)  5.17.99  227
 Bennett (H&B)  5.17.99  132
 Lucich North  5.18.99  268
 Lucich South  5.18.99  352
 Frazer  7.31.00  93
 Souza  7.2.01  40
 Natomas Farms  7.9.01  96
 Sills  7.15.02  436
 Alleghany 50  11.7.02  50
 Cummings  11.7.02  67
 Atkinson  6.12.03  205
 Ruby Ranch  6.23.03  91
 Huffman West  9.30.03  181
 Huffman East  9.30.03  136
 Tufts  9.29.04  148
 Rosa East  3.24.05  106
 Rosa Central  3.24.05  100
 Bolen North  4.29.05  114
 Bolen South  4.29.05  102
 Vestal South  9.12.05  95
 Bolen West  9.1.06  155
 Nestor  9.1.06  233
 Frazer South  11.7.06  110
 Bianchi West  11.7.06  110
 Elsie  11.7.06  158

Welcome to the Natomas Basin Conservancy

The Natomas Basin Conservancy serves as plan operator for the Natomas Basin Habitat Conservation Plan. It acquires and manages habitat land for the benefit of the 22 "special status" species covered under the Plan.
Two-year channel clearing projects completed
Tuesday, 09 December 2008

Pre-maintenance conditions
Pre-maintenance conditions

The Natomas Basin HCP requires that the Conservancy’s marsh complexes remain fully functional. The watered channels of the marsh complexes are the biggest challenge in achieving this functionality requirement. During the summers of 2007 and 2008, the first round of marsh channel maintenance activity was successfully completed. This was a major undertaking for the Conservancy.

 
Burrowing owl mound progress
Thursday, 29 May 2008
nbc080529boalleghanyproject2-thWorking with the County of Sacramento, the Conservancy’s Alleghany 50 tract burrowing owl enhancement project is nearing completion. The project is being done by the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District as a mitigation project, and the Conservancy welcomed the opportunity to enhance the area to take advantage of a crop conversion experiment nearby.
 
Preserve consolidation and expansion; enhance urban separator
Thursday, 21 February 2008
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The Conservancy announces the completion of a series of three land exchanges designed to consolidate preserves and reduce fragmented habitat lands. The effort was completed over a period of three and one-half years, and was done to secure land with superior biological resources and to enhance the value of existing habitat land for the species covered under the Natomas Basin Habitat Conservation Plan (NBHCP).
 
Sacramento Congresswoman Doris Matsui leads Congressional delegation on Conservancy visit
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
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 Recently, Sacramento Congresswoman Doris Matsui toured the Conservancy’s Fisherman’s Lake Preserve Area with fellow Members of Congress Mike Thompson of California and Collin Peterson of Minnesota. Peterson chairs the House Agriculture Committee, which is heavily engaged in the 2007 Farm Bill, legislation which will impact the Conservancy and many others in the habitat lands and rice farming community. Congresswoman Matsui wanted to show Peterson and Thompson the interface between rapidly-advancing urbanization in her District of South Natomas and Natomas’ open agricultural fields, with the Conservancy’s habitat lands serving as a buffer between the two. She also facilitated an on-site discussion between the Members of Congress and Conservancy managers regarding a number of key agricultural and habitat land issues.
 
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