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Management Locations

As part of Sonoma Mountain Institute’s mission to enhance the natural world we have been running a restorative cattle grazing program for the past few years on a number of properties. We have also been running a robust monitoring program along side of the grazing program to inform us how we are doing, how we can improve, and to illuminate relationships between grazing treatments and ecological effects on the landscape.

On this page you can choose any of the properties we manage to look at vegetation/grassland monitoring data (with controls and exclosures as well), soil monitoring data, grazing records and anecdotal stories and notes from our grazing management team (shepherd’s notes). You can also look at a variety of panoramic photos taken at the same place every year to evaluate the changes in woodland and grassland edges.

Please click on any of the properties listed below to view the monitoring data we have collected for each site. Vegetation, soil and panoramic data can also be accessed from the map by clicking on their location marker on the map.

Annual Grazing Reports

Quarterly Field Notes

Pike View Location »

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Eames View Location »

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The Eames property is composed of 312 acres of pasture.  S.M.I. started managing the property on 2/8/2022.  There are 6 monitoring points that we collect data on annually, of which the results can be found in the links below.

Triangle G View Location »

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5 Springs Ranch View Location »

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The 5 Springs property is composed of 140 acres of rangeland.  S.M.I. started managing the property on 12/1/2020.  There are 5 monitoring points that we collect data on annually, of which the results can be found in the links below.

Green Ranch View Location »

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Cayetana View Location »

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The Cayetana property is composed of 1460 acres of rangeland.  S.M.I. started managing the property on 2/24/2016.  There are 8 monitoring points that we collect data on annually, of which the results can be found in the links below.

Manor Lane View Location »

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The Manor Lane Property is composed of 387 acres of grass.  S.M.I. started managing the property on 4/24/2014.  There are 42 monitoring points that we collect data on annually, of which the results can be found in the links below.

Glen Ellen View Location »

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The Glen Ellen Property is composed of 84.35 acres of grass.  S.M.I. started managing the property on 4/24/2014.  There are 8 monitoring points that we collect data on annually, of which the results can be found in the links below.

Pangea View Location »

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The Pangea property is composed of 65 acres of fallow and 60 acres of native grass pasture.  S.M.I. started managing the property on 2/18/2015.  There are 2 monitoring points that we collect data on annually, of which the results can be found in the links below.

Mitsui View Location »

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The Mitsui property is composed of 632 acres of grass.  S.M.I. started managing the property on 2/18/2015.  There are 5 monitoring points that we collect data on annually, of which the results can be found in the links below.

Walsh View Location »

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The Walsh property is composed of 280 acres of rangeland.  S.M.I. started managing the property on 2/18/2015.  There are 7 monitoring points that we collect data on annually, of which the results can be found in the links below.