May 10, 2026By John Holland
Approximately 20 PG&E employees helped plant native vegetation on the last acre of a 106-acre restoration site near Caswell Memorial State Park. Volunteers from PG&E, which helped fund this project, spent a couple of hours planting on a one-acre bunny mound, a graded area at about 8 feet in elevation that will eventually provide refuge, safety, and food for the endangered riparian brush rabbit during extended future floods here. The day ended with an informative pollinator-count activity, when PG&E employees learned first-hand how River Partners scientists observe and tally bees, flies, and butterflies visiting flowers – and how the Western monarch butterfly makes its legendary journey across state and national lines.
“The monarch can go all the way to Idaho, Oregon, British Columbia in multiple generations and somehow find their way back to California in winter.”
~ River Partners Senior Restoration Ecologist Corey Shake
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Photo by Andy Alfaro / The Modesto Bee
