Volunteer ambassadors for the Santa Rosa Plateau Nature Education Foundation met for their first 2023 training session Saturday, Jan. 14 to learn about the nonprofit’s mission and goals for the new year.The ambassadors and SRPNEF Board of Directors heard from Jane Block, the founder of Rivers and Land Conservancy. The group spurred the initial purchase of land on the Santa Rosa Plateau in the hills above Murrieta in the 1980s that has now become an almost 10,000-acre nature reserve. Today it is jointly managed and operated by California Fish and Wildlife, Riverside County Regional Parks and Open Space District and The Nature Conservancy.Sylvan Meadows, next to the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve, is also a part of the reserve but is designated for multi-use (horseback ridin
