Spring 2024 Carrizo: Fiddlenecks in bloom (photo by William Buck) Things are still heading for a good, or at least decent, wildflower year in the Carrizo Plain.  Rainfall to date has been good, the soil is moist, and recently the temperatures have come up.  This has...

Spring 2023 Carrizo lupine bloom by Jane Wei. The Carrizo Plain Conservancy was incorporated under the laws of the State of California in October 2013.  In July 2014, we received our Recognition of Status as a Charitable Nonprofit corporation from the...

What a spring we had on the Carrizo Plain! Some say it was the best bloom in recent memory with more of the Plain blanketed in wildflowers than in a long while. The US BLM alone estimates there were 85,000 visitors in March and April to the Carrizo Plain National...

We have had an eventful 2018 so far, and ask for your continued support for our conservation programs in the Carrizo Plain. Here are the highlights. Adding (Again!) to the National Monument Through The “Section 14” Project In the last year CPC has acquired by purchase...

The Carrizo Plain Conservancy announces that it has donated a 42-acre parcel of private land with a quarter-mile of shoreline on Soda Lake to the United States of America for inclusion in the Carrizo Plain National Monument. While Interior Department officials in...

It takes a village to conserve important lands that connect wildlife corridors to keep landscapes and their ecosystems resilient. CPC is delighted to be adding the Sequoia Riverlands Trust (SRT) to our portfolio of partners (www.sequoiariverlandstrust.org). SRT...

In June of 2016, the Bureau of Land Management and Friends of the Carrizo Plain hosted the Carrizo Plain Conservancy and many CPNM friends and associates on a tour for Lois Capps as she completes her years of service in Congress. Neil Havlik presented Ms. Capps with a...

The CPC recently took possession of the Topaz Settlement Lands and the California Valley Solar Ranch Settlement Lands, totally over 8000 acres.

Carrizo Plain Conservancy president Neil Havlik presented Ms. Capps with a request to petition the President to add approximately 16,000 acres to the National Monument.