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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.

New "Tract Map" series

The Conservancy has long relied on aerial photos to assist in the habitat land management effort. As its preserve holdings have expanded, there has been an increasing need to identify specific features as reference points, to better educate contractors needed on the sites, and to avoid location mistakes. Accordingly, the Conservancy has begun the process of introducing "Tract maps" where an aerial photo is overlain with site-specific features.

Two-year channel clearing projects completed

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

Working 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

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).