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Spending lots of quiet time out in nature, waiting for the perfect shot, brings us closer to the creatures that live there. Jan Lightfoot, local photographer, tells us a story of one encounter.

What a perfect way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day!

The Nature Preserve was showing off its green as all the plants were coming out of their winter slumber.

We’ll make a Game Camera Photo Gallery at some point, but we wanted to share a few from recently and last year in this blog post.

A Boy Scout’s Eagle project has resulted in nine new bat boxes for the Cache Creek Nature Preserve.

This is the story of a beaver dam and its builders, and how one of our game cameras got caught right in the middle of it all.

Congratulations to the winners of the Cache Creek Conservancy’s 2023 Earth Day Photo Contest! The photos from winner’s Tom Pritchard (Adult category) and Peri Hoke (Professional Category) are showcased here and will be used in future communications and promotions of the Conservancy.

Sometimes we need to relocate rattlesnakes at the Nature Preserve for public safety reasons. As you can see and hear, the snakes have their own opinion.

The Cache Creek Conservancy (CCC) is accepting bids for its Gordon Slough Erosion Repair Project at the Cache Creek Nature Preserve.

A pre-bid site visit is scheduled for 9 a.m. Thursday, March 23, 2023.

A group of UC Davis PhD students are researching the bird, Black Phoebes at the CCNP.

See how they paint the toenails of the chicks to keep track of them.

Imagine you could travel back in time to 14,000 years ago here at Cache Creek. Back then it was the Ice Age, and the standard of what large wildlife was very different from today. There were ground sloths, saber-toothed cats, camels, dire wolves, and of course mammoths… or mastodons… or perhaps both? YES!