The Santa Lucia Conservancy Resource Library includes videos, articles, guidance documents, field guides and advisories. Expand your naturalist knowledge or learn about The Preserve Design and how this community thoughtfully cares for the land and our wild residents.
Santa Lucia Conservancy Resource Library
- 2021 Preserve Owner Weed Management Guidelines
- 2021 Prohibited Plant List
- 2021 Preferred Plant List
- 2019 Grassland Management Initiative
- 2019 Santa Lucia Preserve Seed Mix
- 2019 Santa Lucia Conservancy Brochure
- 2019 Contractor Training
- 2018 Preserve Weed Management Guidance
- 2018 Preserve Fuel Management Standards
- 1999 The Santa Lucia Preserve Plan
- Conservation Easements
The Conservancy in the Media
- Battle Ground: A quiet Fight for Soil is Unfolding Between Invasive and Native Plant Species (Monterey County Weekly, February 2022)
- Recent rains make prescribed burn at Santa Lucia Preserve possible (Carmel Pine Cone, November 2021, page 10A)
- A prescribed burn at Santa Lucia Preserve aims to employ indigenous wisdom in land management (Monterey County Weekly, November 2021)
- Prescribed burn planned for Carmel Valley (Monterey Herald, November 2021)
- Bears are coming for your trash (Carmel Pinecone, January 2021)
- Local Preserve Wants To Change The Way We Fight Wildfires In California (KAZU, 2020)
- A Force of Nature for 25 Years (Carmel Magazine 2020)
- Community science helps California’s native blackbird gain protected status (Monterey Herald 2018)
- Preserving the Preserve (CSUMB Monterey Bay Magazine Fall/Winter 2017)
- Nature takes hold at the former Rancho Cañada golf courses (Monterey Herald 2017)
- Just as the Carmel River is bouncing back, its most iconic species – steelhead trout – are under attack: Reviving a River (Monterey Weekly 2017)
- California Red-legged Froglets – Gotcha’ Photo of the Month (Wildlife Professional 2016)
- Conservation Grazing: Reclaiming California’s Native Grasslands (Preserve Magazine 2015)
- Where the Wildlife Wander (Preserve Magazine 2015)
- The Santa Lucia Preserve: A Modern Community on and Ancient Land (Carmel Magazine 2015)
- Tricolored Blackbird Woes (Bird Watcher’s Digest 2015)
Living with Wildlife Resource Library
- Wildlife Rescue – How to Help
- Wildlife Species Checklist
- Safe Practices with Pets on Trails 2021
- Keep Black Bears Wild 2020
- Bear League – Bugged By Bothersome Bears?
- Bear Aware 2018
- Black Bears on The Preserve
- Coyotes on The Preserve
- Road Safety and Wildlife on The Preserve
- Mountain Lions on The Preserve
- Mosquito Advisory
- Oak Moths
- Road Safety and Wildlife
- Pollinators of The Preserve
- The Importance of Snags
- Reptiles of The Preserve
- Owl Nest Box Plans and Instructions from Humane Wildlife Control Inc.
Field Guides for the Santa Lucia Preserve
Conservancy Videos
- The Soil Tells a Story with Shawn Salley (January 2021)
- A Bird’s Eye View: Monitoring Birds of Prey to Assess Grassland Health
- Community Town Hall: Active Fires and Black Bear Activity – August 20, 2020
- Hands off or Hands on? Perspectives on Managing Nature with Jeff Schwegmann June 2020
- The Return of the Condor with Mike Stake April 2020
- Biodiversity Sensitive Fuel Management Training 1/3
- Biodiversity Sensitive Fuel Management Training 2/3
- Biodiversity Sensitive Fuel Management Training 3/3
- Santa Cruz Puma Project 2020
- The Santa Lucia Preserve Grasslands 2019
- Staying Fire Safe on The Preserve
- Dinner Under the Pear Trees
- Where the Wildlife Wander 2018
- 1100 Goats Grazing on Penon
- Santa Lucia Conservancy YouTube Library
Publications
Conservancy Posters