Not all protected plants and animals are warm and fuzzy. The Land Trust recorded an easement on 6 acres of bog, with another four acres of buffer around the periphery, near Grouse Ridge, all to protect a rare plant that smells like dead meat and eats bugs.

This particular green-colored, insect-eating plant, Darlingtonia Californica, is found nowhere else on the face of the globe!

The owner of the site very patiently worked with the Land Trust to allow time to finalize all the legalities and secure the funding needed to protect this site. This is the first lands project with the (NCCA) Nevada County Conservation Alliance to utilize The Nature Conservancy matching grant funding.