ACTION NEEDED Coyote Creek Solar

The Coyote Creek Solar Project will be before the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors tomorrow November 18th.

Solar is an important part of our energy future, however this project is being proposed in the wrong location. This approximately 1,200 acre industrial solar facility will be located in the eastern part of Sacramento County.  This is an unacceptable location to site such a facility because:

  • They are proposing to cut down as many as 4,787 native oak trees, many of which are older mature oak trees that take decades to grow that large;

  • It will destroy habitat for numerous local and protected wildlife species;

  • It will disrupt an important wildlife corridor in an area where there is very little Oak Woodland Grassland habitat remaining;

  • There are many far more appropriate sites in the county;

  • SMUD does not need this project to be able to close local fossil fuel plants or meet its 2030 net zero carbon goals;

  • It disrupts the ability of the South Sacramento Habitat Conservation plan to achieve its conservation goals;

  • It runs counter to Sacramento County general plan directives for the use of this area;

  • It will destroy sacred ground and the associated cultural resources for local tribes;

  • It will be a visual blight in a very scenic part of the county;

  • It will negatively impact operations and events in the Prairie Creek state vehicular recreation area, immediately adjacent to the proposed facility. These events generate 57 million dollars for the local economy and that revenue would be at risk with the degradation of a massive industrial solar facility being installed immediately adjacent to their facility.

It is important the Supervisors know the level of opposition to this project.

Please let the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors know that this is the wrong location for solar development! Action needed prior to the meeting on November 18, 2025.

Call, write, or visit in person to let your supervisor know that you are opposed to this project. The district map is available here, or search by address here.

If you can, please join us at the November 18th Board of Supervisors meeting to voice your opposition to this project. Even if you are not comfortable speaking, it is important that we pack the room with opposition to this development! Meetings are held at 700 H Street, Suite 1450, beginning at 9:30 AM. 

To learn more you can visit:
https://www.ecosacramento.net/2025/11/day-of-action-november-18-2025/

I hope you are all getting the opportunity to get out and see the wintering and migrating birds.  The White-fronted and Snow Geese have arrived at places like Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge and the Sandhill Cranes are in good numbers in the Delta.  Thank you for your ongoing commitment to conserving our natural resources!

Cliff Feldheim
Conservation Chair, Sacramento Audubon
sacaudubonconservation@gmail.com