SCC Feb. 2025

February Land Deals on CA's Coast

SCC 2/13/2025
https://scc.ca.gov/2025/01/31/coastal-conservancy-public-meeting-in-oakland-february-13/

NORTH COAST: disburse up to $5,000,000 for the Great Redwood Trail to the Great Redwood Trail Agency...for the advancement of the Great Redwood Trail in Mendocino, Trinity, and Humboldt Counties.
http://scc.ca.gov/webmaster/ftp/pdf/sccbb/2025/0213/20250213Board06_Great_Redwood_Trail_Agency_Augmentation.pdf
Addendum: Great Redwood Trail Augmentation – REVISED STAFF RECOMMENDATION, 2/13/2025
http://scc.ca.gov/webmaster/ftp/pdf/sccbb/2025/0213/20250213Board06_Great_Redwood_Trail_Agency_Augmentation_Board_Amended.pdf

MENDOCINO: disburse up to $503,400 to Mendocino Land Trust to undertake the Great Redwood Trail Willits to Longvale Planning Project,... for a 12.7-mile segment of the Great Redwood Trail in the City of Willits and unincorporated Mendocino County.
http://scc.ca.gov/webmaster/ftp/pdf/sccbb/2025/0213/20250213Board07_GRT_Willits_to_Longvale.pdf

HUMBOLDT: Consideration and possible authorization to disburse up to $277,400 to the Blue Lake Rancheria to acquire two parcels comprising 33.8 acres at the Baduwa’t Estuary, west of McKinleyville, Humboldt County
http://scc.ca.gov/webmaster/ftp/pdf/sccbb/2025/0213/20250213Board03F_Baduwa_t_Estuary_Acquisition.pdf
Addendum: Support Letter
http://scc.ca.gov/webmaster/ftp/pdf/sccbb/2025/0213/20250213Board03F_Blue_Lake_Rancheria_Grant_Application_Support_Letter.pdf

MARIN COUNTY: approve the Disposition Plan for the Bel Marin Keys South Lagoon Levee, for the purpose of transferring the South Lagoon Levee to the Bel Marin Keys Community Services District to maintain the structural integrity of the levee and to maintain the levee top trail for public access, in Marin County.
http://scc.ca.gov/webmaster/ftp/pdf/sccbb/2025/0213/20250213Board03H_BMK_SouthLagoonLevee.pdf

BALLONA WETLANDS comment, 8 pages
http://scc.ca.gov/webmaster/ftp/pdf/sccbb/2025/0213/20250213Board10_PublicCommentWalterLamb.pdf

WCB 02/2025

February CA Wildlife Land Deals

WCB Meeting 2/26/2025
10:00 a.m. Natural Resources Building, First Floor Auditorium 715 P Street, Sacramento, CA 95814

MAPS  
https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=228285&inline

IN SO-CALIF:

10 acres: Ross (funds amount uncertain), San Diego County
grant to the Escondido Creek Conservancy to acquire 10± acres located near the city of Encinitas.

74± acres: Silo Hills (funds amount uncertain),, Riverside County
grant to the Western Riverside County Regional Conservation Authority to acquire 74± acres located in the city of Hemet in Riverside County.

State Route 91 B Canyon Wildlife Crossing $10,666,000. Riverside County
grant to Caltrans to upgrade the existing box culvert under State Route 91, whose functionality as a wildlife corridor has been constrained due to a bend in the culvert, ... thus reconnecting a linkage to protected lands between the Chino Hills and the Santa Ana Mountains near the Riverside-Orange County border in Riverside County.

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L.A. COUNTY:

South LA County Habitat Connectivity Masterplan Augmentation $787,000 Los Angeles County.
grant to the Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains for a cooperative project with the Wildlife Conservation Network, County of Los Angeles, and City of Los Angeles to complete high-resolution landscape connectivity models and maps for habitats within the urban and urban-wildland interface, engage stakeholders in urban nature conservation, and develop a physical masterplan for projects that will enhance wildlife corridors in southern Los Angeles County.

I-5 Sierra Madre-Castaic Wildlife Crossing Planning $4,921,000 Los Angeles County
grant to the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority for a planning project that will conduct feasibility and constraints analyses for at least four wildlife crossing locations and to identify at least one priority wildlife crossing that will have Caltrans documentation, environmental review, and 65% designs developed to improve wildlife connectivity. The planning area is a 26-mile stretch of Interstate 5 that runs from State Route 138 south to the northern border of Santa Clarita and bisects protected lands in the Sierra Madre and Castaic ranges in Los Angeles County.

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CENTRAL VALLEY/SIERRA NEVADA'S

265 acres: Mourier West ($ amount uncertain) Placer County
grant to Placer Conservation Authority, for a cooperative project with Placer County to acquire in fee 265± acres located near Roseville in Placer County.

22 acres: Daugherty Hill Wildlife Area, Expansion 19 (Anderson) $200,000 Yuba County
acquisition of 22± acres of land by CDFW as an expansion of the Daugherty Hill Wildlife Area located near the community of Loma Rica in Yuba County.

212 acres: Anderson River Park Transfer (funds amount uncertain), Shasta County
transfer in fee of 212± acres of land owned by CDFW to the City of Anderson to own, operate, and maintain the property in perpetuity for purposes of public access and habitat conservation in Shasta County.

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SAN FRANCISCO BAY:

1218 acres: Richmond Ranch $4,000,000 Santa Clara County
grant to Santa Clara Valley Habitat Agency to acquire 1,218± acres located adjacent to the city of San Jose.

98 acres: Ginochio Schwendel $728,000 Contra Costa County
grant to Save Mount Diablo to acquire 98± acres located near Clayton.