One need not look further than these gorgeous wildflower photos to see that Bobcat Ranch is recovering well from the Monticello Fire. Ranch manager and photographer Carissa Koopmann Rivers, "in the top photo we are overlooking Bray Canyon, across the canyon you can see the orange glow of California Poppies (Eschscholzia californica) on the south facing slopes and in the foreground you have the tall purple flowers known as blue dicks (Dichelostemma capitatum) an popcorn flowers (Plagiobothrys collinus) with a couple of purple lupine mixed in.

"This is a photo looks west into Bray Canyon. The flowers in the foreground are purple lupine (Lupinus polyphyllus), with California Poppies in the background on the south facing slopes of the steep canyon wall.

"This is a photo looking south/east towards Winters. In the foreground is purple lupine (Lupinus polyphyllus) and fiddlneck (Amsinckia), and of course, Blue Oaks in the background."

Audubon California acquired the 6,800-acre Bobcat Ranch in 2007, as part of its ongoing effort to support and encourage the conservation and restoration of blue oak woodlands and rangelands in California.