New Parks to Explore....

In the San Francisco Bay area:

SAN MATEO COUNTY

97 acres bought by POST—Silva, 5/2011

http://www.openspace.org/CGI-BIN/agendas_minutes/2011.05.11.POST_%28Silva%29_Purchase_r-11-14.pdf
http://www.openspacetrust.org/
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SOLANO COUNTY

147 ACRE-conservation easement-Hamilton property
http://www.solanolandtrust.org/NewsDetail.aspx?hArticle=3

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1500 acres—Rockville trails purchase by Solano Land Trust
scc.ca.gov/.../ftp/.../20110519Board12_Rockville_Trails.pdf
http://benicia.patch.com/articles/site-of-proposed-housing-development-now-preserved-as-open-space

http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-06-15/news/29659683_1_open-space-oak-trees-corridor

The deal, reached last week, is in essence a down payment on 1,500 acres of former Indian hunting grounds and settlements that contain some of the Bay Area's most sensitive habitat. The land trust now has until February to raise an additional $10.5 million to buy the remaining 1,170 acres from White Wing Highlands Associates or the developers could exercise their right to build 185 homes.

…The land, known as Rockville Trails Estates, is next to the 650-acre Rockville Hills Park, owned by Fairfield. Once the purchase is completed, the land would connect with the 800,000-acre Blue Ridge Berryessa Natural Area and form a huge corridor of open space with the potential for a regional trail system and numerous recreational opportunities for the public.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/14/MNIM1JOD1E.DTL

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NAPA COUNTY

Wildlake Ranch purchase—Napa Land Trust
http://napalandtrust.org/2011/05/landtrustofnapacountyannouncestheculminationofthenapavalleywildcampaign/

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LAKE COUNTY

Goat Mtn—664 acres by Tuleyome, 4/2011

http://lakeconews.com/content/view/19180/919/
http://www.tuleyome.org/index.php?option=com_phocagallery&view=category&id=6:goat-mountain&Itemid=98

http://www.restorecalifornia.net/goat%20mountain.html

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MARIN COUNTY


BY THE MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST:

1214 acre Corda ranch conservation easement—MALT
http://www.malt.org/news/press/press_06_01_11_malt.php
http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_18186118

http://www.malt.org/about/map.php

160 acres Toluma farms—conservation easement—MALT
http://malt.org/news/easements.php