Save Badger Ridge Highlands
6 important wildlife properties are at-risk
You did it! Nearly $66,000 raised to purchase properties
Surrounded by proposed Wilderness in the Cleveland National Forest, it is vital that this land be conserved before it is lost.
Conservation supporters rally together to raise the funds needed to buy 6 properties totalling nearly 10 acres! Great job!
If you want to support our acquisition efforts to conserve threatened open spaces, we would love your support. Click Here for Details.
This is the largest remaining private property in Badger Ridge, an important wildlife area. The property went on the market, we needed to act fast! The above photo by volunteer Mysteri LeMay captures this open space's amazing beauty.
Our special thanks to Ensie and Matthias Blume for this generous pledge to match up to $20,000 for this effort.
Large mammals such as bobcats, cougars, deer, foxes and badger can be found here amongst the flowering plants of the coastal sage scrub habitat and Engelmann oak woodlands. Native milkweed that monarch butterflies depend on can be found here, too!
Badger Ridge is a vital ecological area. Now it will be conserved forever.
UPDATE: The Property has been conserved! We have successfully completed the acquisition. All donors will be invited to a celebration in November.
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LOCATION: Upper San Diego River near Eagle Peak Road and Julian / Pine Hills
Link to Google Map with location
Map of Parcels
In the map the properties that can be conserved are in orange. You can see how we are working to connect SDRPF(yellow) and National Forest lands (green). The red properties are already under contract to purchase. The lands without a color overlay remain privately owned. Badger Ridge (shown) is connected to other SDRPF lands to the north.
Acquisition Details:
Total Cost = $119,800
Available in Acquisition Fund = $55,000
Balance raised! Great work everyone!
Over time we have been able to acquire and conserve dozens of properties in the South Rim area. We will continue to reach out to many private landowners building relationships so that if they decide to sell we can act quickly.
Make a gift today to join with us to be part of conserving this very special place and provide wildlife like this amazing bobcat a place to roam forever.
Bobcat documented at Badger Ridge
Native milkweed growing near the property.
Acquisition provides open space for the following species and many more.
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Wildlife documented at Badger Ridger include these cougar cubs. Gray fox, deer and much more have been photographed through our Critter Cam wildlife camera network.
Your donation today is helping protect wild places for these amazing critters.
DONOR APPRECIATION
Friend of the South Rim
$5 - $99
Receive an invitation to a property dedication ceremony (virtual or in-person) and be listed on this website (let us know if you prefer to be anonymous).
South Rim Defender
$100 - $499
Receive a South Rim 12 oz. campfire mug (must be picked up at event or at our office) plus Friend of the South Rim benefit. Additional ones can be purchased for $10.
Adopt 1/10th acre
$648
This is a special opportunity to adopt 1/10 of an acre. We will provide a certificate as well as identify your unique 1/10 acre on a sign along a trail at the South Rim. This is a limited offer which will end soon!
Plus Friend of the South Rim benefits. An entire acre can be adopted for $6480!
Conservation Society
$1000 and above
Be recognized on the property dedication sign to be located at Eagle Peak Ranch plus plus the Friend of the South Rim Benefits. Invitation to join the River Park Foundation's Conservation Society for one year (or extension of one year if current member).
Conservation Society members are invited to a special fall event . In addition, you will receive occasional updates from our CEO with acquisition news and other information.
- We encourage you to consider joining our River Wildlife Club by signing up for a monthly donation. It is convenient, easy, and provides the fuel to pursue other opportunities! Thank you if you are already a member!
Learn More About the South Rim Conservation Effort
Video by Jim Karnik Films on Vimeo.
For more information on our acquisition program or other ways to get involved, contact our CEO, Rob Hutsel, rhutsel@sandiegoriver.org or call (619) 244-7024..
Thank you to everyone who has contributed
$1000 and above
James Marich
Diane & Bill Hunter
Susan Hector in loving memory of Thomes S. Hector-Rosen
Emily Bowling
Elizabeth Mather
Pat Grant
Vickie Church
Rob Hutsel, Karen Begin & Alex
Ann & Bill Dahnke / American Endowment Fund
Chip Owen
Gary DeBusschere
Amy Schmitz & Jeff Pasek
Matthias & Ensie Blume
Anonymous Fund at the
Jewish Community Foundation
Adopt a 1/10th Acre
Rocks Biological Consulting, Inc.
Ellen Gross
Bill & Cyndy Martin
Douglas Black in memory of Bill and Irene for Badger Ridge Black
Patricia & Douglas Coe
Anonymous
Jennifer Cochrane-Schultz
Cindy Pencek
Lucas & Shannon Worthen
Georgia Dutro
Kelly Halm
$100 and +
Holly and Daniel Gant
Donna Posin & Ken Cote
Christopher Janz
Joyce & William Marsh
Trudy Pachon
Steve Weihe
Ledford Enterprises, Inc.
Michael P. Sampson Family Fund
Tom Wallace
James Noble
Patrick ONeil
Robert Merrill
Deborah Quiett
Nathan Weflen
Callie Mack &
Phil Roullard
Ann Zahner
Dave Hogan
Mollie Martinek
Joan Raphael
Margaret Green
Jim Royle
Mike Kelly
Kevin Flynn
Carolyn Barkow
David Mares
Laura Dick
Jodie Hulden
Anneli Kyner
Theresa Acerro
Scott Crellin
Tom Wallace
Randall Padgett
Glenn Torbett
William & Isabella Lopez-Powers
Jeremy Tuler
Patrick O'Neil
Jackson Moore
Douglas Duncan
Jim & Cathy Potter
Mysteri LeMay
Cindy Burrascano
Anita Reith
Stuart Hartley
Jonathan Weidman
Camille Armstrong & Geoffrey Smith
Cynthia Ford
Ted Sledzinski &
BJ Withall
Sally Trnka
R & B Wehrman Family
Susan Smitth
Molly Gee
Gary Mitrovich
Jeannette & Thomas Poling
James Connolly
Jodi & Terry Deane
Anonymous
Fred Kramer
Sherry Ashbaugh
Louise Streiff
Michael Hender
Ann Sixtus
Joel & Terri Johnson
Olga Offerdahl
Jean & Scott Molentin
Trish Butler & Cary Lowe
Jonathan
Weidman
Pierre La Plant
Derek Loranger
Elaine Stoner
Up to $99
Andriana Wolf
Rae Newman
Pilar Amaya
Andrew Stoner
David Scarafone
Dave Loveland
Joan Tanis
J. Deming
Beth Lander
Erik Hauenstein
Eugene Fosnight
Lance Takata
Creators' Rep
Peggy Junker
Claudia Rhodes
Steve Adams
Lisa Stempka
Danah Woodruff
Renee Woodward
David Scarafone
Kathi Herter
Katherine & John Ellis
Cornelia Gordon
Kathryn Meagher
Michael Lysik
Victoria Mature
Kelsey Schramma
Breanne Pendergraft
Frederick Ashcroft
Keith Larson
Richard Bagnell
Delphine Pastiaux-Murphy
Leslie & Charles Laforest
Anonymous
Phyllis Berger
Peg Blessing
Marcie Mason
Gary Mitrovich
Marilyn Gibbs
Lee Hamm
Liz Abeyta Fine Art
Alita Hetland
Kathy McGaffigan
Stuart Hartley
Jennifer Knox
Sophia Frost
Philip Yeung
Gay Meyers
Ryan Gittins
Christina Rivas
Katherine Ferguson
Peter Welter
Cornelia Gordon
Dave Brown Coaching
Susy Zanese
Donald Hill
Alissa Gabriel
M. Dan McKirnan
Corrine Bassett
Connie Beck
Rana Taha
Norrie Robbins
Mark Hagen
Andrea Rae
Shatila Makrom
Elaine Stoner
Final Update:
9/8
A tremendous thanks to
the River Wildlife Club, a grant from an Anonymous Fund at the San Diego Foundation and other donations which provided $55,000 to allow this purchase to be started.
Please let us know of any errors in your listing so we can correct them.
Thanks!
619-297-7380
Donations are
tax-deductible as allowed by law.
EIN 01-0565671