82,000 Acres of Wildlife Habitat was Saved with Our Tax
Dollars Through the CA Wildlife Board in last 12 Months
TOTAL LAND
PRESERVED WITH WCB FUNDING FROM SEPTEMBER 2013 TO AUGUST 2014:
FULL OWNERSHIP (called “in fee”): 13,035 acres
CONSERVATION EASEMENTS (also called development rights):
69,050
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA:
RIVERSIDE COUNTY:
Nelson, Western Riverside
County, $88,000
acquire in fee 119± acres north of the City of Wildomar
. WCB 9/2013
Palo Verde ecological reserve exp 3, Riverside
County, $420,000
acquisition of 36± acres near the City of Blythe
. WCB 9/2013
Carrizo Canyon
Ecological Reserve, Expansion 1, Suzanne Adams Trust Donation, Riverside
County, $10,000
-- donation from the Trust of Suzanne Adams of 100 +/- acres
of land in fee title located southeast of the City of Palm Desert, on the lower
eastern slopes of the San Jacinto Mountains in Riverside County. WCB 2/2014
Western Riverside
County Multi Species Habitat
Conservation Plan (2012) – Berger,
Riverside County,
$71,000
acquire 10± acres of land. WCB 5/2014
Western Riverside
County Multi Species Habitat
Conservation Plan (2012) – Fuller,
Riverside County,
$78,500
acquire 20± acres of land. WCB 5/2014
Coachella Valley
Natural Community Conservation Plan, Shadowrock, Riverside
County, $786,750
-- subgrant federal funds to the Friends of the Palm Spring
Mountains (FOPSM) and to consider a Wildlife Conservation Board grant to FOPSM,
for a cooperative project with the Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy to
acquire 352.82± acres located along the lower elevations of the San Jacinto
mountains, near the northwest border of the city of Palm Springs. WCB 5/2014
North Peak
El Toro, Western
Riverside County,
$95,000
acquire in fee 47± acres. WCB 8/2014
Patterson, Western
Riverside County,
$160,500
Acquire in fee 29 acres. WCB 8/2014
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SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY:
Puma Canyon
exp. 3 & 4, San Bernardino County,
$558,000
grant to the Transition Habitat Conservancy for a
cooperative project with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Office
of Spill Prevention and Response to acquire two separate properties totaling
137± acres in Puma Canyon
on the lower northern slopes of the San Bernardino Mountains,
near the community of Pinon Hills. WCB 9/2013
Sawmill Pebble Plain Ecological Preserve, San
Bernardino County,
$2,015,000
--grant to the San Bernardino Mountains Land Trust to
acquire 166+/- acres of very rare and endangered pebble plain habitat,
supporting a wide variety of endemic plant species, located just south of Big
Bear Lake, in the San Bernardino Mountains. WCB 2/2014
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SAN DIEGO COUNTY:
San Diego River/Palmer, San Diego
County, $676,000
acquire in fee 9± acres near the community of Alpine, in
central San Diego County.
. WCB 9/2013
San Felipe Valley Wildlife Area, Expansion 5 (Thompson) San
Diego County,
$230,000
-- acquisition in fee of 174+/- acres of land. WCB 2/2014
San Diego County
Multi Species Conservation Plan (Bonfils), $208,500
acquisition of 256+/- acres of land located near the
community of Lakeside. WCB 5/2014
San Diego County Multi Species Conservation Plan HCPLA/NCCP
2010 (multiple parcels), San Diego County,
$685,250
-- subgrant federal funds to the Endangered Habitats
Conservancy (EHC) and to consider five Wildlife Conservation Board grants to
EHC to acquire a total of 142+/- acres from five individual landowners near the
city of El Cajon. WCB 5/2014
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LOS ANGELES COUNTY:
Malaga Canyon-Rancho Palos Verdes--Ocean Trails HCPLA 2009
(Ya Yi May and Angeles LLC Properties) Los Angeles
County, $607,250 (USFWS is paying
the other $607,000)
-- two grants to the City of Rancho Palos Verdes (City) plus
federal funds to acquire two separate properties, 16± acres and 42± acres in
size, in Malaga Canyon. The Property has been appraised as having a fair market
value of $1,114,500.. Specifically, the Angeles LLC property has an appraised
fair market value of $659,500 and the Ya Yi May property has an appraised fair
market value of $455,000. The Property owners have each agreed to sell their
Property for its approved appraised fair market value. .WCB 11/2013
Puerco Canyon
in Malibu, Los
Angeles County,
$4,505,000
-- grant to the Mountains Recreation and Conservation
Authority for a cooperative project with the State Coastal Conservancy and the County
of Los Angeles to acquire 703±
acres. WCB 5/2014
Gateway Ranch, North
Los Angeles County,
$1,660,000
A $1.6 million grant to the Trust for Public
Land for a cooperative project with
the City of Santa Clarita to
acquire approximately 302 acres of land to provide corridors linking separate
habitat areas to prevent habitat fragmentation, . WCB 8/2014
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EASTERN SIERRAS:
Burcham and Wheeler Flat exp. 1 (Winter), Mono
County, $225,000
fee title acquisition of 75± acres 15 miles northwest of Bridgeport,
near the intersection of U.S. 395 and S.R. 108, commonly referred to as Sonora
Junction in unincorporated Mono County.
WCB 9/2013
Sinnamon Meadows Conservation Easement, Mono
County, $630,000
-- grant to the Eastern Sierra Land Trust to acquire a
conservation easement over 1,240± acres near the community of Bridgeport.
WCB 5/2014
Amargosa - Tecopa Hot Springs,
Inyo County,
$56,750
acquire 80± acres of land for the protection of wetland and
upland habitat areas and linkages supporting the State and federally-listed
endangered Amargosa vole and the Amargosa niterwort, located just north of the
community of Tecopa Hot Springs. WCB 11/2013
Round Valley Pine Creek Unit, Inyo
County, $1,674,250
acquisition of 100± acres of land located 10 miles north of
Bishop in the unincorporated community of Rovana in Inyo
County. WCB 2/2014
Amargosa Tecopa Hot Springs,
exp. 1-3, Inyo County,
$29,550
acquisition of 4+/- acres and a conservation easement over
2+/- acres. WCB 8/2014
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CENTRAL COAST:
San Vicente Redwoods (Cemex) Forest
conservation easement, Santa Cruz County
A $10 million grant to Save the Redwoods League for a
cooperative project with the Land Trust of Santa Cruz County, Peninsula Open
Space Trust, Sempervirens Fund and the State Coastal Conservancy to acquire a
forest conservation easement over approximately 8,532 acres of working forest
lands, forest reserve areas and habitat linkages near the town of Davenport in
Santa Cruz County. WCB 8/2014
Santa Cruz
Sandhills, Zayante (Dowd and Dumas) Santa Cruz
County, $772,600
grant to the Land Trust of Santa Cruz County (LTSCC) plus
federal funds to acquire in fee 14± acres of land and a separate 37± acre
conservation easement, located in the City of Ben Lomond
in Santa Cruz County.
WCB 11/2013
Santa Cruz
long-toed salamander (King), Santa Cruz
County, $40,000
acquisition of a 329± acre conservation easement located
southeast of the City of Aptos. WCB
8/2014
Pismo Preserve, San Luis Obispo
County, $4,010,000
A grant to the Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County
for a cooperative project with the State Coastal Conservancy and others to
acquire in fee approximately 879 acres near Pismo
Beach. WCB 8/2014
Careaga Canyon
ranch conservation easement, Santa Barbara
County, $1,383,000
--401 acres near the city of Santa
Maria. WCB 8/2014
--WITHDRAWN FROM AGENDA
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CENTRAL VALLEY:
San Joaquin River,
Hidden Valley Ranch, Stanislaus County.
$3 million
to acquire in fee approximately 466 acres located
approximately 10 miles west of the City of Modesto,
just south of the confluence of the Tuolumne and San
Joaquin rivers. WCB 9/2013
Cosumnes River Ecological Reserve Access Easement Exchange,
southern Sacramento County,
$2,500
exchange of an administrative access easement with The
Nature Conservancy property at the Cosumnes River Ecological Reserve. WCB
11/2013
Allensworth Ecological Reserve, Expansion 28, Tulare
County, $9,000
acquisition of 7± acres of land by the California Department
of Fish and Wildlife for the protection and expansion of habitat near the City
of Earlimart, west of State Route
99, in Tulare County.
WCB 11/2013
Allensworth Ecological Reserve, Expansion 28, Tulare
County, $0
acquisition of 7+/- acres of land near the city of Earlimart,
west of State Route 99, in Tulare County.
All of the funding for this project will be reimbursed from the California
Department of Corrections Statewide Electric Fence Project mitigation fund
assigned to CDFW. WCB 2/2014
Allensworth Ecological Reserve, Expansion 29 – 40, Tulare
County, $0
-- acquisition of 22 separate parcels of land totaling
33.4+/- acres near the city of Earlimart
in Tulare County.
the proposed funding source is being provided by the California Department of
Correction’s Statewide Electric Fence Project mitigation fund assigned to CDFW.
WCB 5/2014
Allensworth Ecological Preserve, exp 41-49, Tulare
County, $0
acquisition of 12 separate parcels of land totaling 29+/-
acres near the city of Earlimart, funding source, which is being provided by
the California Department of Corrections Statewide Electric Fence Project
mitigation fund. WCB 8/2014
Canebrake Ecological Reserve, Cap
Canyon Unit, Expansion 3, Kern
County, $332,000
acquisition of 360± acres of land in the southern Sierra
mountains, approximately 20 miles east of Lake
Isabella, in Kern
County. WCB 11/2013
Goose Lake
Legacy Project, Kern County,
$2,348,836
grant to the California Waterfowl Association to acquire
1,670± acres of land for the purpose of protecting wetlands and associated
upland habitat areas in the Goose Lake watershed, , south of the City of Wasco
in Kern County. .WCB 11/2013
Cow Creek Conservation Area, Expansion 3, Triple B
Ranch, Shasta
County, $650,000
-- a grant to the Shasta Land Trust (SLT) to acquire a
conservation easement over 600 +/- acres of land, located north of State
Highway 44 about 10 miles east of the City of Redding in Shasta County. WCB
2/2014
Red Bank, Conservation Easement Expansion, (Burrows Ranch), Tehama
County, $57,000
-- grant to the Northern California Regional Land Trust to
acquire a conservation easement over 170± acres located approximately 20 miles
northwest of the City of Red Bluff. WCB 5/2014
Dry Creek Ranch Conservation Easement, Recovery
Land Acquisition Grant (2010),
Merced County,
$2,068,000
--subgrant federal funds to the California Rangeland Trust,
and to consider a Wildlife Conservation Board grant to the California Rangeland
Trust acquire a conservation easement over 4,417± acres located near the
community of Snelling in Merced County. WCB 5/2014
Swiss ranch conservation easement exp 5, Calaveras
County, $500,000
acquisition of a 329± acre conservation easement. WCB 8/2014
American Basin
Conservation Easement (High Ridge Ranch), Yuba
County
An $805,000 grant to the California Waterfowl Association to
acquire a conservation easement over approximately 226 acres. WCB 8/2014.
El Dorado Ranch
1B, El Dorado County
A $4.8 million grant to the American River Conservancy to
acquire in fee approximately 1,059 acres fronting the Cosumnes
River in El
Dorado County. WCB 8/2014
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SAN FRANCISCO BAY
AREA:
East Contra
Costa County
HCP/NCCP (Roddy Ranch) $4,846,875
acquire 1,885± acres of land located in the Diablo Mountain
Range, above the City of Antioch . WCB
11/2013
East Contra
Costa County
NCCP/HCP (Anna Smith) Contra Costa
County, $2,424,200
acquire 960± acres of land, located in the Diablo Mountain
Range, west of the City of Brentwood
in Contra Costa
County. WCB 2/2014
Pole Mountain,
Sonoma County,
$655,000
--grant to the Sonoma Land Trust for a cooperative project
with the Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District, the
Packard Foundation, and the California State Coastal Conservancy, to acquire
238± acres located near the community of Jenner. WCB 5/2014
Mark West Creek (McCullough II), Sonoma
County, $2,510,000
Acquire 275 acres in fee northeast of Santa
Rosa in the Mayacamas
Mountains. WCB 8/2014
WITHDRAWN FROM AGENDA
Martinelli Ranch Conservation Easement, Marin
County, $1,510,000
--Grant to MALT to buy a conservation easement over 238
acres located west of Bolinas Lagoon. WCB 8/2014
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NORTH COAST:
Usal Forest
Conservation Easement Transfer, Mendocino
County, $0
-- assignment of a conservation easement by the Conservation
Fund to CALFIRE over 49,500 +/- acres in Mendocino County pursuant to the
California Forest Legacy Program Act of 2007. WCB 2/2014
Humboldt County
Community Forest,
McKay Tract, Humboldt County,
$4,510,000
acquire 1,000± acres of land. WCB 5/2014
Lost Coast Redwood and Salmon Initiative, Mendocino and Humboldt
Counties
$3,210,000
-- a grant to Sanctuary Forest Land Trust to acquire a
conservation easement over 2,612± acres of land located near the community of
Whitehorn. WCB 5/2014
Brush Creek Conservation Easement, Mendocino
County, $1,675,000
-- grant to the Mendocino Land Trust (MLT) to acquire a
conservation easement over 2,018 ± acres of land. WCB 5/2014
