SCC 4/2024

Bay Ridge Trail Preserve is Expanded

disburse up to $1,683,000 to the California Rangeland Trust to acquire a conservation easement over approximately 1,402-acres of Stonier Ranch for the protection of open space, wildlife corridors, viewsheds, natural resources, and grazing lands, in Santa Clara County.
http://scc.ca.gov/webmaster/ftp/pdf/sccbb/2024/2404/20140418Board08_Stonier_Ranch_staffrec.pdf

WCB 5/2024

Notice of Meeting WILDLIFE CONSERVATION BOARD
Thursday, May 23, 2024, 9:30 a.m. Natural Resources Building, First Floor Auditorium
715 P Street Sacramento, CA 95814

DETAILS AND MAPS
https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=222475&inline

AGENDA ITEMS:

NORTH COAST:

Trinity Headwaters $12,100,000 Trinity County
grant to Pacific Forest Trust to acquire 10,700± acres located west of Interstate 5 and the city of Mount Shasta, and southeast of the community of Callahan. $1.4M from SNC, $2M from feds
INFO AND MAP: https://www.pacificforest.org/conservation-project/trinity-headwaters/
https://www.pacificforest.org/conserving-trinity-river-headwaters/

Miner's Creek $2,750,000 Siskiyou County
grant to The Nature Conservancy to permanently protect 389± acres
https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/california/stories-in-california/staff-stories/ see 12/15/2023 post

Upper Bear Creek Meadows Conservation Easement $4,485,000 Siskiyou County
grant to Siskiyou Land Trust for a cooperative project with CAL FIRE to acquire a conservation easement over 4,768± acres located east of the community of McCloud. $1.2M from CalFire

Parks Creek Ranch $9,300,000 Siskiyou County
grant to The Nature Conservancy to acquire 5,277± acres located five miles from Weed.

Arcanum Ranch $550,000 Mendocino County
grant to Sanctuary Forest to acquire 50± acres located two miles south of the community of Whitethorn.

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SO-CALIF:

El Monte Valley (Digenan) $810,000 San Diego County
grant to Lakeside’s River Park Conservancy for a cooperative project with the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) and the County of San Diego to acquire in fee 75± acres located eight miles east of the city of Santee. (Price includes $690k from CNRA for total $1.5M.)
The Property connects the County’s El Monte County Park to the County’s 2,619-acre El Capitan Preserve,

Santa Rosa Hills $347,000 Riverside County
grant to the Oswit Land Trust for a cooperative project with CNRA to acquire in fee 165± acres located one mile east of the city of Hemet. (CNRA is paying $1M, for total price of $1,34M)

Western Riverside MSHCP Johnson $371,000 Riverside County
grant Federal & WCB funds to the Western Riverside County Regional Conservation Authority (RCA) to acquire in fee 10± acres located in the city of Hemet. USFWS is paying $690k

Happy Valley $1,400,000 Riverside County
grant $2.6M Federal & WCB funds to the Oswit Land Trust to acquire in fee 639± acres located near Indio Hills.

Palo Verde Ecological Reserve, Expansion 5, $8,000,000 Imperial County
acquisition of 1,971± acres located south of the city of Blythe. Dept of Water Resources paying $2M, $25.5M from Lower Colorado MSCP Consortium

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L.A. COUNTY:

Angeles Linkage $824,000 Los Angeles County
grant to the Trust for Public Land for a cooperative project with the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority to acquire 113± acres located half a mile south of the community of Acton.
RMC paying $1.5M, and CNRA $1M

Follows Camp Ecological Design $2,080,000 Los Angeles County
grant to City of Industry for a project to develop restoration design plans and initiate environmental education programs, located on 118 acres of city-owned land eight miles northeast of the city of Azusa.

Simi Divide - Box Canyon Connector $850,000 Ventura County
grant to Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority for a cooperative project with the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy to acquire 166± acres located near Simi Valley. SMMC paying $385k

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CENTRAL COAST:

Elkhorn Slough Ecological Reserve, Expansion 19, $640,000 Monterey County
To consider the acquisition of 24± acres located near Castroville.

LI Livestock Ranch Conservation Easement $1,056,124 San Benito County
grant to the California Rangeland Trust for a cooperative project with the Bureau of Reclamation to acquire a conservation easement over 1,631±-acres located adjacent to Pinnacles National Park. Bureau of Reclamation paying $980k

Beach Ranch $5,000,000 Santa Cruz County
grant to The Land Trust of Santa Cruz County to acquire 264 ± acres located 2.5 miles southwest of Watsonville. Coastal Conservancy paying $8M, LT of S. Cruz $900k

Santa Cruz Long-toed Salamander, Section 6 (La Selva Uplands) $6.1M, Santa Cruz County
grant federal & WCB funds to The Trust for Public Land and The Land Trust of Santa Cruz County as successor grantee for a project to acquire in fee 144± acres located near Watsonville. USFWS paying $3M

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SF BAY AREA:

Barnett Ranch $1,997,000 Contra Costa County
grant to John Muir Land Trust to acquire 134± acres located in Martinez in Contra Costa County

Morgan Valley Expansion 1 (Aigner) $70,000 Lake County
grant to The Regents of the University of California to acquire 12 ± acres.

Morgan Valley Expansion 2, $30,000 Napa County
grant to The Regents of the University of California to acquire 5± acres.

Tiburon Ridge (Martha) $5,500,000 Marin County
grant to The Trust for Public Land and Marin County Open Space District as successor grantee to acquire 110± acres located in the town of Tiburon. $49M total price; $29m from Marin CO OSD

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CENTRAL VALLEY/SIERRA NEVADAS:

Western Placer County HCP/NCCP (Redwing Ranch North) $1.1M, Placer County
grant federal & WCB funds to the Placer Conservation Authority, for a cooperative project with Placer Legacy Open Space and Agricultural Conservation Program to acquire in fee 430± acres located near Lincoln. USFWS paying$4.3M, Placer Legacy Program $400k

C & P Conservation Easement $1,410,000 Sutter County
grant to Ducks Unlimited for the acquisition of a conservation easement over 313± acres of land buffering high quality wetlands located on the Sutter National Wildlife Refuge

Island Dairy $11,100,000 Stanislaus County
grant to River Partners to acquire fee title over 482± acres located between the historic San Joaquin River channel and Laird Slough immediately adjacent to the unincorporated community of Grayson.