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The sun is shining on the Stones’ Yolo Land and Cattle Co. where the family has just won a regional award for stewardship and recently put the final touches on a
conservation easement, held by the California Rangeland Trust, assuring that the land will continue as a working ranch.
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Hank Stone shares some free time with Mary Kimball, Director of Center for Land Based Learning, which has coordinated and overseen local high school students who have helped with native plantings
and restoration work on the ranch.
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Carson Stone checks to see if anyone is home at one of the hundreds of swallows nests built on the ranch and overlooking a revegetated pond.
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NRCS District Conservationist Phil Hogan explains to the videographer for the Environmental Stewardship Award Program how the Stones practice exemplary stewardship.
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The Stone family, May 2007. From left to right: Carson, Scott, Austin, Karen, Susie and Hank.
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Native oaks reseed themselves at Yolo Land and Cattle, contributing to a healthy plant and wildlife ecosystem on the ranch.
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