The Wildlands ProjectThe Wildlands Project

Conservation Easements: The Key to the Corridors

• “If we identify a ranch … that’s between two wilderness reserves, and we feel it will be necessary as a corridor, we can say to the rancher, ‘We don’t want you to give up

your ranch now, but let us put a conservation easement on it. Let’s work

out the tax details so you can donate it in your will to this reserve system’.”

Dave Foreman Listening to the Land by Derrick Jensen (Sierra Club Books)

Conservation Easements: The Key to the Corridors

• "The only hope of the Earth is to withdraw huge areas as inviolate natural

sanctuaries from the depredations of modern industry and technology. Move out the people and cars. Reclaim the

roads and the plowed lands."

Dave Foreman Confessions of an Eco-Warrior

Conservation Easements: The Key to the Corridors

• ”Conservation Easements are the key to the Corridors. Once the Easements are Legally in Place, We can Impose Habitat

Restrictions for Wildlife thus Ending Grazing and Other Agricultural

Practices. If the Landowner Refuses, the Easement Management Loophole will Allow Us to Sue the Landowner and

Impose those Restrictions.”

New Mexico Wilderness Alliance Meeting, May 1999

Arizona and New Mexico Targeted Connecting Corridors Arizona and New Mexico Targeted Connecting Corridors

New Mexico Wilderness Alliance Meeting, May 1999

Ultimate Wildlands Project Goal in the Southwest

RED AREAS INDICATE LITTLE TO NO HUMAN USE!!RED AREAS INDICATE LITTLE TO NO HUMAN USE!!

Wildlands Project Goals for CaliforniaWildlands Project Goals for California

RED AREAS INDICATE LITTLE TO NO HUMAN USE!!RED AREAS INDICATE LITTLE TO NO HUMAN USE!!

CALTRANS Wildlands Project GoalsCALTRANS Wildlands Project Goals

Areas in yellow to orange/brown are targeted for habitat connectivity. Areas in yellow to orange/brown are targeted for habitat connectivity.

CALTRANS funding (state and federal)

habitat connectivity project.

Map from CEHCP -

California Essential Habitat Connectivity Project

Description

The California Department of Transportation and California Department of Fish and Game commissioned the California

Essential Habitat Connectivity Project because a functional network of connected

wildlands is essential to the continued support of California's diverse natural

communities in the face of human development and climate change.”

http://databasin.org/datasets/4f6cd2c4e5b4461e9de63e7f7eb2a67a

http://www.dfg.ca.gov/habcon/connectivity/

http://www.scwildlands.org/projects/caltrans.aspx

Essential Connectivity Areas of California (USA)Essential Connectivity Areas of California (USA)

“…a functional network of connected wildlands…”

“…a functional network of connected wildlands…”

http://databasin.org/datasets/4f6cd2c4e5b4461e9de63e7f7eb2a67a

CALTRANS funding (state and federal)

habitat connectivity project.

Map from CEHCP -

California Essential Habitat Connectivity Project

Description

“The California Department of Transportation and California Department of Fish and Game commissioned the California

Essential Habitat Connectivity Project because a functional network of connected

wildlands is essential to the continued support of California's diverse natural

communities in the face of human development and climate change.”