State Buying up more Wildlife Preserves and Development Rights
WHAT’S BEING SAVED:
Mendocino County
--disburse up to $3,000,000 to Save-the-Redwoods League to acquire approximately 957 acres known as the Shady Dell Creek Tract, as part of the 50,635-acre Usal Redwood Forest Conservation Project in northern Mendocino County. http://scc.ca.gov/webmaster/ftp/pdf/sccbb/1101bb/20110120Board05_Shady_Dell_Creek_Acquisition.pdf
(NOTE: the Usal forest was purchased from the Hawthorne Timber Company in 2007 by the Redwood Forests Foundation in order to preserve it as a sustainably logged forest. The funds from the State will help pay off the loans which were used to buy the land.)
--disburse up to $2,500,000 to The Conservation Fund to acquire the approximately 464-acre Smith Tract portion of the Ten Mile Ranch, located adjacent to the Ten Mile River, Mendocino County.
disburse up to $500,000 to the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy to acquire and prepare a stewardship plan for 70 acres of the Hollingsworth Ranch property along the Ventura River in unincorporated Ventura County.
MORE DETAILS
Coastal Conservancy, 1/20/2011
http://scc.ca.gov/2011/01/10/coastal-conservancy-public-meeting-january-20-2011/
Coastal Conservancy, 12/10/2010: no land purchases
http://scc.ca.gov/webmaster/ftp/pdf/sccbb/2010/1012/index.htm
Coastal Conservancy, 12/10/2010: no land purchases
http://scc.ca.gov/webmaster/ftp/pdf/sccbb/2010/1012/index.htm
