Our 2025 design features a magnificent Great Gray Owl illustrated by IBP Biologist and Scientific Illustrator Lauren Helton. IBP has done research on this species in the Sierra Nevada for over 25 years and we partnered with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the broader California Partners in Flight community to develop A Conservation Strategy for Great Gray Owls in California. Great Gray Owls are primarily found in the Boreal forest across North America and Eurasia and populations in the Sierra Nevada manage to thrive in a much drier and fire prone area than those in the north.