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Page 1: Bay Area Land Conservation and Changing Demographics

Bay Area Land Conservation and

Changing Demographics

George Wright Society Conference

March 31, 2015

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This is AnnieAnnie Burke

Deputy Director

[email protected]

Twitter: @BA_OpenSpace

Instagram: @bayareaopenspace

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Photo: Lech Naumovich

What does land conservation

mean in the Bay Area?

How does land conservation

happen in the Bay Area?

Who’s changing?

How can we all use our

Outdoor Voice?

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Photo: Lech Naumovich

What does land conservation

mean in the Bay Area?

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1.4 million acres of

protected land

1 million acres publicly

accessible

10’s of millions of park

visitors annually

Thousands of trailheads

Hundreds of thousands

of acres in farms and

ranches

7 million human residents

Biodiversity hotspot

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Redwood forests

Rich agricultural land

Oak woodlands

Hundreds of watersheds

Sacramento Delta

Prairies and grasslands

Mountains and ridges

Urban parks

Beaches and shoreline

Trails of many kinds

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Land acquisition

Land stewardship

Outdoor education

Community building

Food production

Water supply

Public health

Habitat restoration

Cultural resources

And 100 other flavors

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• Conservation Lands Network

(BayAreaLands.org)

• Nonprofit land trusts buy land, turn

over to public agency

• Partnerships between land trusts

and Native tribes

• 20,000 acres in Buckeye Forest in

Sonoma Co all the way to 8 acres

in El Cerrito purchased by Trust for

Public Land

• Habitat Conservation Plans, Master

plans, Greenprints, Mitigation and

Vision Documents

• And more…

Some examples of how the Bay Area:

PROTECTS THE LAND

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• Stewardship 5.0 led by

Sempervirens Fund

• Tamalpais Lands Collaborative

• Urban Releaf in Oakland

• Terrestrial Biodiversity Climate

Change Collaboration

• Critical Linkages for wildlife

• Save the Redwoods climate

change research

• And more…

Some examples of how the Bay Area:

STEWARDS THE LAND

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• Grazing on public lands

• Sunol AgPark

• Pie Ranch

• Coyote Valley in the south bay

• Conservation easements

• Marin Carbon Project

• UC Cooperative Extension

• And more…

Some examples of how the Bay Area:

WORKS THE LAND

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• Trails Challenge by East Bay

Regional Park District

• Healthy Parks Healthy People

• Pogo Park in Richmond

• LandPaths’ Bayer Farm

• Shuttle from Bayview Hunters

Point to the Presidio

• Ridge Trail and Bay Trail

• And more…

Some examples of how the Bay Area:

CONNECTS PEOPLE TO THE LAND

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Photo: Lech Naumovich

How does land conservation

happen in the Bay Area?

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“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

Aristotle

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65 member organizations and agencies including:

Nonprofits: land trusts, advocacy organizations,

friends groups, conservancies

Cities

Counties

Special districts

Resource Conservation Districts

California State Parks

Federal agencies: National Park Service, BLM

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Relationships

Photo by Jen Hale

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Break

bread

together

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Share information

(and not just the good stuff)Photo: Jen Hale

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Make it visible

Photo: Jen Hale

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Have fun

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Photo: Lech Naumovich

Who’s changing?

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By 2050, California’s population will grow by 35%.

That’s the size of metro LA today.

95% of Californians live in urban areas. This isn’t

expected to change.

Today Latinos are the largest ethnic group in

California – by 2050 Latinos will comprise nearly

half the population.

Nearly a quarter of Californians live in poverty

today.

California is growing older, more obese, and

unhealthy.

Source: California Council of Land Trust’s Horizon’s Report

CA

LIF

OR

NIA

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Source: Plan Bay Area, Chapter 2

Between 2010 and 2040, the Bay Area is

projected to add 2.1 million people and 660,000

homes, for a total of 9.3 million people and 3.4

million homes.

By 2040 Latinos will emerge as the largest ethnic

group, increasing from 23% to 35%.

The number of Asians will increase from 21% to

about 24% of the population.

Non-Hispanic whites will drop sharply from

approximately 45% in 2010 to about 31% in 2040.

The African-American population is expected to

decline slightly, dropping from 6% to 5%.BA

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Source: Focus group with 10 Latino participants, January 2015

There is an untapped potential to engage Latinos

and business/tech workers.

People need to be asked to get involved.

LA

TIN

OS

and B

US

INE

SS

I don’t know if I would have done that if not prompted

to, but now that I see it on here, it is worthy of giving a

portion of that (theoretical) $1,000.

I was one of those who wouldn’t have thought to give

to natural areas, unless prompted.

It looks like some of these parks need help and there

is a bunch of things I can do, not just make a bunch of

trailheads. It seems like there is something I can do.

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What are we doing about it?

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What we do What they do

Where the magic happens

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What we do What they do

Where the magic happens

National Park Youth program

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What we do What they do

Where the magic happens

National Park Youth program

Land trustPublic health

department

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What we do What they do

Where the magic happens

National Park Youth program

Land trustPublic health

department

Parks

& Rec

dept

Job

training

center

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Maybe we don’t need to change

what we’re doing.

We will need to change

how we’re doing it.

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Photo: Lech Naumovich

How can we all use our

Outdoor Voice?

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What if we did this math:

Ecosystem of organizations

and agencies protecting the

land, stewarding & working the

land, and connecting people to

the land

+

The need for significant

regional funding

+

More Bay Area residents who

care about land conservation IF

prompted

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Outdoor Voice

A regional initiative to

build a large and

diverse constituency for

land conservation

A way for park users to

deepen their experience

with the places they

love

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Outdoor Voice

www.outdoorvoice.org

facebook.com/outdoorv

oice

@outdoorvoice

Launching at Open

Space Conference on

May 14, 2015

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Photo: Lech Naumovich

Land conservation means a wide range

of things in the Bay Area.

Embracing a culture of collaboration

means achieving more.

We can change what we do, or how we

do it (or both). Either way we need to

change.

A regional initiative is launching to

maximize opportunities and unify the

region.

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This is AnnieAnnie Burke

Deputy Director

[email protected]

Twitter: @BA_OpenSpace

Instagram: @bayareaopenspace