Parker Ranch conservation easement

Kelso Creek Sanctuary Survives the Piute Fire

Spring Nature Festival recap

Tricolored Blackbirds (Agelaius tricolor) Breed Successfully

Cyrus Canyon protects extremely rare Kelso Creek Monkeyflower

San Emigdio Blue butterfly

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National Audubon Society Educational Program

The Friends of the Kern River Preserve prohibits discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, marital or family status.

Kern Valley Pride Day

Join the Friends of the Kern River Preserve team for Kern Valley Pride Day on Saturday, September 20 from 7:30am-11am. This annual event picks up trash around the Kern River Valley by competitive teams. The Friends of KRP generally always collects a lot of trash normally placing first, second or third in the valley. Contact Sandra Wieser to sign up today and order your t-shirt and barbecue lunch.

14th Annual Autumn Nature and Vulture Festival

The vultures are already circling the date... join the Friends of the Kern River Preserve for our annual celebration of America's largest janitorial stewards on September 27-28, 2008.

Air Quality & Climate Change

Restoring the forest along the South Fork Kern River has benefits for wildlife and is a beautiful place for people to visit. One of the greatest benefits of the expanding forest is the amount of carbon sequestered and the air purifying quality of deciduous forests. Read all about how the preserve benefits air quality in the Kern River Valley here.

Parker Ranch conservation easement

Audubon has worked with its partners over the past several years to help purchase a conservation easement on an integral link in the coast to the Sierra wildlife corridor. A win-win situation for nature and the Parker Family. The development rights were purchased to provide the family with much needed capital, now the ranching operations can continue in perpetuity. Ranching managed properly benefits plants and wildlife by providing open space and habitat. MORE...

10th Annual Hummingbird Celebration - August 9th

What a great day for hummingbirds and 291 humans. The weather was perfect, the hummingbirds performed on schedule and the staff and volunteers of the Kern River Preserve pulled off another great festival. This one day event celebrates the six species of hummingbirds that migrate through the Kern River Valley.

We thank Birdie Foster, Christy and Gordon Hancock, Marya Miller and Darrell Barnes, Sandra Wieser, Jeff King and Reed Tollefson for all their great help! Thanks also to Steve Kenton of the USPS, Bill Moffat of the Tule Elk Reserve, Bob Robinson of the Mountain Desert Resource Conservation Service, and Mimi, Doug and Adam of the Student Conservation Service for some great displays full of interesting information. We also thank all of you for coming to learn about how to care for these flying jewels. PHOTO GALLERY

Audubon Kern River Preserve hosts researchers from UC Berkeley's Grinnell Resurvey Project

Important research on changes in vertebrate distribution began in the Kern River Valley in May 2008. Throughout the state, researchers from UC Berkeley have fanned out over the past few years to resurvey transects covered by Joseph Grinnell from 1908 to 1938. more...

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Visit the Kern River Preserve in Weldon, California. Open every day of the year from dawn to dusk.