Twice a month, Ralph Baker and John Harris from Stanislaus Audubon Society spend a day inspecting habitat and counting birds at the Grasslands Wildlife Management Area in Los Banos, one of fourteen refuges named as essential habitat under the Central Valley Project Improvement Act.
Last week, my hospitality was directed at hemispheric travelers of the human variety, Australian biologists. The group was visiting California to learn how to create bird habitat on rice.