Visiting the Cosumnes River Preserve
Mission Statement
The Cosumnes River Preserve is dedicated to:
Safeguarding and restoring the finest remaining example of California’s valley oak woodland and riparian (streamside) forest and their surrounding native habitats.
Restoring and creating freshwater wetlands to increase the Pacific Flyway's populations ofmigratory water birds.
Demonstrating the compatibility of human uses – particularly agriculture, recreation, and education -- with the natural environment.
Management Goals & Objectives
The overriding purpose of this project is to cooperatively manage Preserve lands as a single ecological unit for the protection, restoration, and maintenance of the quality and diversity of two rare communities in California: valley oak (Quercus lobata) riparian forest and freshwater seasonal wetlands.
This management goal includes the protection and management of associated habitats types, such as grasslands, vernal pool, permanent wetland, and mixed riparian forest found within the Cosumnes Basin to promote growth of native flora and provide habitat for wildlife.
The Partners agree that this goal may ultimately be best accomplished by integrating management of wildlife areas with certain human and economic pursuits, such as agriculture, in a "buffer" area that will enhance and complement the land's habitat values.In addition, the Preserve is managed to maximize and enhance the habitat needs of declining, threatened or endangered species of wildlife and plants. This includes the greater sandhill crane, giant garter snake, Swainson's hawk and Elderberry longhorn beetle, while at the same time the Preserve provides protected habitat and wintering grounds for migratory water birds of the Pacific Flyway.
Partners have as an important secondary goal the accommodation and facilitation of research, teaching, nature study and appreciation, historical and cultural interpretation, and similar educational and scientific activities that are appropriate for the Cosumnes River Preserve, without detrimentally impacting its intrinsic ecological and wildlife values.
Cosumnes River Preserve * 13501 Franklin Blvd. Galt CA 95632
(916) 684-2816
info@cosumnes.org