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Community Meeting to Save Coyote Creek, Dec 9

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Shepard Garden & Arts Center
3330 McKinley Blvd, Sacramento, CA

Background:

On November 18, 2025, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the Coyote Creek Agrivoltaic Solar Project that will:

  • kill over 3000 native oak trees
  • destroy sensitive and increasingly rare habitat (vernal pools, valley grasslands, and one of the last continuous blue oak woodlands in California)
  • destroy cultural resources that are unique, sacred, and irreplaceable to local tribes
  • set a precedent for poorly-sited development that conflicts with local and regional plans in Sacramento County.

Join environmental and OHV (Off-Highway Vehicle) activists to stop this project.

Cal4Wheel | California Native Plant Society | Defenders of Wildlife | Habitat 2020

Sac supervisors shouldn’t just rubber-stamp SMUD’s Coyote Creek project, November 17, 2025, The Sacramento Bee

By The Sacramento Bee Editorial Board | November 17, 2025 | The Sacramento Bee

The Sacramento Municipal Utility District — SMUD — has made a mistake it is unable to extricate itself from: A lack of due diligence surrounding the site of a potential energy project by outside developer D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI) has put more than 1,400 acres — and 3,700 native oak trees — at risk of destruction for a solar array that critics say was poorly planned.

Click here to read the article in full.

Day of Action: Nov 18

Join ECOS and Sierra Club

The environmental community in Sacramento needs to take a highly visible stand against these two terrible projects. Help us fight them.

Attend the meetings

You can speak your piece, or just be there. We need to pack the room.

Say no to Coyote Creek Agrivoltaic Ranch!

Proposed for eastern Sacramento County, between the Prairie City SVRA and Deer Creek Hills Preserve. It would destroy 1,357 acres of vernal pools, grassland habitat, and +3,500 oak trees for a temporary solar farm.

To Learn More Visit https://bit.ly/nocoyotecreek
And write to the Board of Supervisors

On Tuesday, November 18
Attend the Board of Supervisors meeting
2:00 p.m., 700 H Street, Suite 1450

Say no to Airport South Industrial Project!

Proposed in the Natomas Basin, within the Pacific Flyway, outside the urban services boundary. +6 million square feet of warehouses on 450 acres of land near a residential community and elementary school.

To Learn More Visit https://bit.ly/NoASIP
And write to the City Council

On Tuesday, November 18
Attend the City Council meeting at City Hall
5:00 p.m. 915 I St.

Comments Re DEIR Coyote Creek Agrivoltaic Ranch Project

On May 5, 2025, comments were submitted on behalf of 350 Sacramento, California Native Plant Society, California Wildlife Foundation, Central Valley Bird Club, Defenders of Wildlife, Habitat 2020, Sacramento Audubon Society, and Sierra Club on the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for the proposed Coyote Creek Agrivoltaic Ranch Project.

Click here to view the letter.