WILDLIFE CONSERVATION BOARD Purchases
From meeting on June 4, 2013
SUMMARY:
4649 acres purchased in full
5048 acres of development rights retired
COST: $13.8 million
FULL AGENDA: https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=67524
MAPS: https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=68101
(BELOW: Royal Gorge)
Royal Gorge $3,010,000, Placer and Nevada Counties
grant to Truckee Donner Land Trust to acquire two parcels
totaling 2,520± acres for the purposes of protecting alpine forests and
meadows, … approximately 10 miles west of the City of Truckee, in the Donner Summit area
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MORE PURCHASES:
Sardella Ranch Conservation Easement, $520,000, Tuolumne County
grant to the California Rangeland Trust to assist with the
acquisition of a conservation easement over 523± acres located 7 miles
southeast of the town of Sonora
San Diego
County MSCP/HCPLA 2009 $578,750, (Kemerko)
acquire 132± acres of land to protect core areas of habitat
that will benefit threatened and endangered species, and secure key regional
wildlife linkages located near the communities of Crest and Harbison Canyon
in an unincorporated area of San
Diego County.
Ten Mile River (Perry-Smith Ranch) $3,510,000, Mendocino County
grant to The Nature Conservancy to acquire a working forest
conservation easement over 872± acres of native forest lands located adjacent
to, and along the Ten Mile River, north of Inglenook on the Mendocino Coast.
Garden Bar Preserve $1,452,000, Nevada County
grant to the Bear Yuba Land Trust to acquire 652± acres along
the Bear River, approximately 10 miles northwest of the City of Auburn
El Dorado Ranch $3,000,000, El Dorado and Amador
Counties
grant to the American River Conservancy (ARC) to acquire in
fee 1,059± acres fronting the Cosumnes
River, located approximately 15 miles
south of the City of Placerville
Wilmar Ranch, Diablo Range Oak Woodland
$275,000, Conservation Easement
Monterey
County
grant to California Rangeland Trust to acquire a
conservation easement over 2,114± acres
Rancho Vierra Oak Woodland
$660,000, Conservation Easement
Monterey
County
grant to Big Sur Land Trust to assist with the acquisition
of a conservation easement over 964± acres 6 miles northeast of the City of Salinas
Bufford Ranch Conservation Easement $570,000, Kern County
grant to the California Rangeland Trust to assist with the
acquisition of a conservation easement over 575± acres located approximately 12
miles south of Lake
Isabella
Arrastre Canyon $260,000, Los Angeles County
grant to The Nature Conservancy (TNC), acceptance of
settlement funds from the U.S. Department of the Interior Natural Resource
Damage Assessment and Restoration Fund (aka ARCO funds), and a U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service Recovery Land Acquisition grant and the approval to subgrant
the ARCO funds and grant funds to TNC to acquire 286± acres of land to protect
habitat for threatened and endangered species, and maintain habitat
connectivity within the upper Santa Clara River floodplain and watershed in
Arrastre Canyon, a tributary to the Santa Clara River located just south of
community of Acton
