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Revving Up Restoration
The number of preserved acres in our watershed continues to grow and we don’t anticipate this stopping anytime soon! With more land spread throughout the watershed, we were faced with the need and opportunity to hire more s...
2020-08-24 -
Home To The Gray Fox… It’s Official
Gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) are known to be quiet, stealthy creatures… but we were starting to wonder if any gray fox lived in the Escondido Creek watershed. The occasional trail tails, unidentifiable scat, and pecu...
2020-08-24 -
5 Ways to Cool Your Climate
It’s summertime and the heat is on. As I write this, the temperature in Escondido is 98°F and San Diego County is experiencing a major heat wave that is spurring planned power outages. While our temperatures may fluctu...
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Introducing The Keithley Preserve
If you live in the Elfin Forest area, you may have noticed some sign changes to the former Los Cielos Preserve. After much thoughtfulness and consideration, we have decided to rename the Preserve after one of our dedicated bo...
2020-08-24 -
Brochures Coming In Spanish!
In an effort to our story more accessible to others, we’ve partnered with Translation Services to translate some of our marketing materials into Spanish. Thank you so much! ...
2020-08-18 -
Why Are Oak Trees Wearing Pink Ribbons?
by Rose Wilkinson & Lissa Schroeder If you’ve been hiking near Elfin Forest, you may have noticed our oak trees have some pink ribbon around them. No, they aren’t streamers leftover from Isabella the deer’s birthday...
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Our Conservation Team Gets Bigger
Like little acorns growing into mighty oaks, The Escondido Creek Conservancy is coming into its own with a growing land care team! This summer, we welcomed Conservation Land Assistant Jamison Lauria and Shirley Innecken joine...
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Wear Wild Face Masks
Get a Wild Face Mask and Support Nature Education Stay safe and show off your wild side. For a limited time, we’re offering wildlife face masks (while supplies last) when you donate in support of the Conservancy. O...
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Are rabbits in for their own pandemic?
While many of us are focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, a different outbreak is sweeping the local animal world—Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus (RHDV). RHDV2, the strain of the disease that is currently spreading across the...
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A Message From The Escondido Creek Conservancy:
We’re grieving along with the rest of the country for all the black lives we keep losing to systemic racism. As Dr. King recognized, “all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mu...
2020-06-04 -
Fun Facts: Barn Owls
Barn Owls do not hoot like other owls—they screech. Barn Owls have super sensitive hearing—they can hear better than most people! Barn Owl’s feathers help them fly silently through the sky. Barn Owls are carnivorous bir...
2020-05-26 -
Charitable Gift Annuities
Your fixed income stream. Your land legacy. You want to give… and want to make sure you’re financially stable throughout your retirement years. Many people accomplsih this through Charitable Gift Annuities. Your sizea...
2020-05-20 -
Restoration Horizons
One of the greatest threats to California’s unique native landscapes is infestation from non-native invasive plants, often referred to as weeds. These weeds, such as highly flammable non-native grass-es, put our neighborhoo...
2020-05-20 -
Farewell Nancy
“Although I have worked as a volunteer for other organizations in the San Diego area, this has been by far my favorite,” said Nancy Samp, an Interpretive Center Docent for the Elfin Forest Recreational Reserve. Since the ...
2020-05-20
