News, Events, Resources & Meanderings

Are you looking for fun things to do with kids on the Holiday Break? A visit to the Cache Creek Nature Preserve may just be the ticket!

On Wednesday, December 28, you can be a part of local natural history by joining us at the Yolo Christmas Bird Count. Teams of citizen scientists (basically, anyone interested) will participate in a day of organized nature walks and bird tallying.

Harnawaz Boparai, the Conservancy’s biologist working on special projects, has left the Conservancy to pursue his academic career in ecological paleontology. We had a special last day in a Chevy on a levee eating pie!

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Help us restore the Nature Preserve to its previous health and beauty. We’ll be planting trees, shrubs and forbs.

Christine Golden was selected as the Cache Creek Conservancy’s Philanthropy Day Honoree for 2022. She will receive special recognition with the other 27 volunteers or donors from throughout Yolo County at a reception on November 15.

Owls are birds of mystery. Depending upon your culture, they represent wisdom or death. Great Horned Owls are found throughout the world.

Leok Po (pronounced lay-oak poe) in the Wintun language means Good Fire. This demonstration and workshop will showcase California Native American use of fire to enhance cultural resources and help restore the environment.

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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! 

Join the Cache Creek Conservancy as it takes part in the official launch of the Nature Explorer Backpacks program offered by the Yolo County Libraries.

The Cache Creek Conservancy is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Restoration Biologist. This position reports directly to the Executive Director and is responsible for continued operation and refinement of our avian and wildlife monitoring program (including nest box monitoring), internship program, interpretive tours, and grant research and writing.