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Big Plans for Wild Lands
April 01, 2011 by Glen Martin
When it comes to the challenge of preserving biodiversity in the face of climate change, population growth, and other pressures, you have to think big. A new regional plan does just that with a proposal for a comprehensive Conservation Lands Network whose implementation would help ensure the preservation of diverse habitats essential for the survival of healthy populations of native species.
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MALT’s Dolcini Ranch Purchase
October 01, 2008 by Aleta George
In West Marin, the Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT) has purchased an agricultural conservation easement on the 585-acre Dolcini Ranch, …
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West Marin
January 01, 2006 by John Hart
Driving out to the coast among the seemingly endless ranks of Marin County hills, studded with rock outcrops and spotted …
More about Conservation Easements
January 01, 2006 by Matthew Bettelheim
If you are interested in learning more about conservation easements, pay a visit to the San Francisco Bay Area Open …
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Conservation Easements Around the State
January 01, 2006 by Darla Guenzler
California leads the nation in the number of land trusts, with over 150. Similar to their Bay Area counterparts, land …
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Livermore Valley
January 01, 2006 by John Hart
Along Tesla Avenue at the south edge of Livermore, rows of grapevines angle from the roadside, showing a trace of …
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People and Easements
January 01, 2006 by John Hart
From a modern house on a knoll in the Nicasio Valley, Randy Lafranchi, fifth-generation Marin County dairyman and second-generation easement …
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Private Land, Public Good
January 01, 2006 by John Hart
How do you preserve significant parcels of open space in an era of rising land prices and shrinking public budgets? In the 1990s, more Bay Area land was protected using conservation easements, where the owner can stay on the land but gives up development rights, than by outright purchase. Though not without their critics, easements are reshaping the way we go about saving our local landscapes.
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San Mateo Coast
January 01, 2006 by John Hart
South of San Francisco, the Peninsula displays a kind of natural zoning-by-topography. On the east side, along the Bay, is …
