Sequoia Riverlands Trust, a non-profit land trust, has protected more than 20,000 acres in the Carrizo Plain, California’s largest remaining grassland and a hotspot for endangered and threatened species. Since 2015, we have adaptively managed solar mitigation land for several sensitive San Joaquin Valley endemic species including San Joaquin kit fox and giant kangaroo rat. Our long-term wildlife habitat management and monitoring program has had many successes, including tricolored blackbird nesting habitat restoration, shrub establishment in grassland habitat, and giant kangaroo rat population expansion, as well as challenges such as managing non-contiguous conservation lands in a landscape level framework. We will share the story of our conservation work in the Carrizo Plain and lessons learned, with a look forward to future projects.