nature preserve

The Carrizo Plain nature preserve is one of California’s most iconic wildflower viewing areas.

In January, Uno, a female mountain lion often seen patrolling the mountains in Orange County, was killed after being struck by a vehicle on a road near the Limestone Canyon Nature Preserve.

During a recent visit to Kern County, Rohde and several conservation specialists walked in the shade through a lush forest of cottonwood trees near the south fork of the Kern River, visiting a nature preserve she had previously seen only in satellite images.

If a magical world filled with romantic intrigue and comic mischief somehow isn’t endearing enough, a beautiful nature preserve standing in for the play’s enchanted forest ought to do it.

His hope, his plan, was for Tetiaroa to become an ecologically responsible tropical resort, but more vitally, a nature preserve, an open-air experimental science laboratory, a “university of the sea,” all to serve the place and the planet.