Bring your family and join us on this light volunteer day as we pick up litter at Marks Ranch! Let’s remove trash and debris from your beloved and picturesque Marks Ranch. This is a family-friendly event, so bring your little ones and your not-so-little ones, too! We'll collect litter from the entrance area and from the front pastures. You will ... Read More
Help us survey Marks Ranch for oak and sycamore saplings! Give Big Sur Land Trust’s stewardship team a hand by joining us on Saturday, October 15 to conduct an oak sapling and sycamore survey at Marks Ranch using the citizen science app, iNaturalist. Knowing where these species are will help our team plan future projects and will improve the monitoring ... Read More
Stewardship Volunteers - Shovel Party at Marks Ranch Where: Marks Ranch Date: Monday, July 11 Time: 5:30PM – 7:30PM Last year, the River Fire weakened the soil on the ridges above Marks Ranch. Earlier this year, the rains carried sediment from those ridges down to the main road. We need your help clearing the culverts to prevent road erosion near ... Read More
Summer Solstice Clean-Up Where: Marks Ranch Date: June 20, 2022 Time: 5:30PM – 7:30PM Please join us for a light stewardship event at Marks Ranch as we clear the ranch of litter that may have blown in these past windy spring months. If encountered, we will also remove two invasive thistle species, the Italian Thistle and Milk Thistle. We look ... Read More
Shovel Party – Land Stewardship Volunteer Event Where: Marks Ranch Date: Saturday June 11 Time: 9:30AM – 1:30PM Last year, the River Fire weakened the soil on the ridges above Marks Ranch. Earlier this year, the rains carried sediment from those ridges down to the main road. We need your help clearing the culverts to prevent road erosion near the ... Read More
Thursday May 12 5:30PM-7:30PM Marks Ranch April's Race for Open Space has come and gone and hikers are signing up to visit Marks Ranch again. There has been a continuous volunteer effort to keep the hacienda garden clean and free of bio fuels. We need your help clearing the front of the hacienda as months of gardening have accumulated a ... Read More
Tuesday April 26 5:30PM-7:30PM Marks Ranch The weather is nice and we are out and about celebrating spring in our own personal way! From a napkin to a reusable bottle, inevitably stuff gets left behind. You are invited to join the Big Sur Land Trust at Marks Ranch for a spring cleaning walk with a mission to ensure we leave ... Read More
Join Big Sur Land Trust’s Land Steward, Cate Stanley, on Sunday, November 28 from 12:00PM to 2:00PM for a special “clean-up” day at Marks Ranch. We’ll focus on picking up trash so the “work” part of the day should go fairly quickly—and then you can enjoy a hike through this beautiful historic ranch. Bring your family. It’s a great way ... Read More
Free Field Demonstration Wednesday, November 17 from 9:00am - 12:30pm at Marks Ranch Big Sur Land Trust’s Marks Ranch has served as a grazing land for livestock for many years. However, grazing operations were interrupted in 2016 with the Soberanes Fire and again in 2020 with the River Fire when, throughout the duration of these wildfires, the ranch served as ... Read More
Monday September 20th 5:00PM - 8:00PM Maintenance Mondays is a series of volunteer events to make the land more resilient, enjoyable and safe for wildlife and people alike. We invite you to join us for the next event on Monday, September 20th at Marks Ranch to continue to nurture the lands we love and share. During this event, we will ... Read More
