Scott Barn 1863

Monterey County Register of Historic Resources: Scott Barn 1863

From Hastings Natural History Reserve

Finch Creek spawning habitat

Hastings Natural History Reservation secured a $100,000 grant from MPWMD to do the design/engineering/permitting work to replace this stream crossing! 

MPWMD found that the concrete ford at Hastings on Finch Creek was the 6th worst barrier on Carmel River tributaries. 

Finch Creek is high in the watershed and contains critical spawning habitat for Steelhead. 

From: Carmel River Watershed Conservancy

it has everything a river should have

From: Carmel River Watershed Conservancy

Big Sur Land Trust Acquires Patriarch Ridge

The Big Sur Land Trust has acquired 83.5 acres of property atop Patriarch Ridge in Carmel Valley.

The land is a mix of old growth mixed evergreen woodland, chaparral and grassland habitat. A dense canopy of stately trees creates an open, park-like understory with adjacent woodlands, grassy slopes and chaparral-covered hillslopes that drop steeply into shaded redwood canyons.

Patriarch Ridge is a very important part of the Esselen Tribe’s sacred lands and includes the upper watershed divide between Williams Canyon and the Garzas Creek drainage. The Esselen name for Patriarch Ridge is “Tebitylat” — meaning “resting spot.”

It has been used for countless generations of Esselen and Rumsen people for ceremonies and as a travel route and corridor for bringing in important food sources from the coast on the northern end of Big Sur at the villages of Sarhentaruc and Ixchenta.

From Monterey Herald