Public Education . The Cosumnes Preserve is host to a wide range of school and volunteer oriented activities . An education program which provides free curriculum materials to local schools resulted in over 2,500 student visits in 1995. For the residents of the greater Stockton-Sacramento area, the Cosumnes has become the point of contact with the Delta. The farmland and open space preservation programs of the Cosumnes River Project enhance the quality of life in the Sacramento region.
Many people visit the preserve to experience the outdoors without traveling too far from home.
These advantages encourage everyone to enjoy the Sacramento region where they live. The river's natural process of seasonal flooding creates ideal winter homes for hundreds of thousands of migratory birds. These include the tundra swan and the greater sandhill crane, listed as threatened by the state of California. In 1990 there were about 750 cranes seen in the area. Now it's over 3000 every year.