ESLT is working hard to continue preserving land for future generations. We want to get your feedback, as dedicated members, supporters, and volunteers, about how you envision the future of the Eastern Sierra region. Below are several ways to help us achieve our goal. Please join us in this quest for inspired direction! Take Our Survey! Click here to take our survey. ESLT's first online survey is quick and easy to fill …continue reading
This past Saturday, ESLT hosted a GPS (Global Positioning System) Field Workshop in conjunction with the owners of Snowcreek Resort in Mammoth Lakes. The second annual event took place in Snowcreek Meadow, taking advantage of the beautiful paths and views the property has to offer. Check out some photos from the day: After the lecture, we broke into two small groups, and were set out into the meadow on what …continue reading
ESLT's last round of summer site visits were a bit more adventurous than those previously undertaken this year. For starters, the property we monitored was Crowley Hilltop Preserve, which overlooks Crowley Lake and the adjacent community from the south. This property is the most demanding to monitor: the Lands Program Coordinator and I had to vertically climb over 300 feet to the top hill, then scramble around the steep and sandy property …continue reading
Read it Today! ESLT's Summer 2010 Newsletter is now available to read online. SierraScape Highlights include: indepth look at the DeChambeau Creek conservation easement Crooning Spadefoot Toads in the Mono Basin How ESLT is helping to improve rangeland and habitat List of ESLT business partners continues to grow Member Spotlight highlights local Eastern Sierra Plein Air painter We hope you'll enjoy! Serena
"Twenty years ago a handful of friends met to paint at a coastal California Bluff." So begins the history of the Oak Group. When the group of friends found out that the very open space they painted was going to be developed, they decided to bring attention to the development by holding a exhibition of their paintings. Now, twenty years, fifty-four some odd exhibitions, and over 1.5 million in painting sales (half …continue reading
Aaron Johnson, our Lands Program Coordinator, and myself, have been escaping the Bishop heat for cooler ground up in Mono County. We have begun the annual monitoring process of ESLT's conservation easements. Each easement has its own monitoring plan, to be carried out according to the values for which it was preserved. All easements, however, must be monitored annually with the same degree of specificity and detail. We always schedule these visits …continue reading
Believe it or not, I once had a job that required me sitting for hours amongst the flowers, notepad in hand, counting the number and type of pollinators making visits to a specific plant. I found it quite meditative, though it probably sounds more romantic than it really was once you factor in the summer heat and note that the sea of flowers were the spiny heads of the invasive …continue reading
Our 2nd annual Art for Conservation Show and Sale opens July 1st at the Mono Council for the Arts Gallery in Mammoth Lakes! Click here for a map and address to the gallery. The gallery will be open to the public from 12pm to 5pm, Tuesday through Sunday, with no admission charge. The main feature of the event is ESLT's conservation easement at Benton Hot Springs Ranch. In May, Eastern …continue reading
Wednesday evening, the ESLT garden hosted the business community for a Bishop Chamber Mixer. The blossoming garden was a great setting to meet some new and old friends. With the 3rd-graders' sunflowers towering above, this mix of for-profit and nonprofit business representatives learned a bit about what ESLT is and how business is an integral part of a conservation easement. There are lots of opportunities to work together for the …continue reading
ESLT celebrated youth in the garden this past week with a Sunflower Party for local third grade classes that participated in ESLT's Sunflower Project, which is in its second year. The program consists of educating youth about planting, the life cycle, and offering children the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in the garden. ESLT worked with two classes from Elm Street Elementary School: Sara Steck and Victoria Hamilton's third grade classes. Every …continue reading