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Bay Area Land Conservation Projects and Programs Your Region 360 California Council of Land Trusts March 3, 2015 Presented by: Annie Burke

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Bay Area

Land Conservation

Projects and Programs

Your Region 360

California Council of Land Trusts

March 3, 2015

Presented by:

Annie Burke

1.4 million acres of

protected land

10’s of millions of park

visitors annually

Thousands of trailheads

Hundreds of farms and

ranches

7 million human residents

Biodiversity hotspot

What does Bay Area land

conservation mean?

What does it entail?

Describing the

Bay Area’s land

conservation

scene is as easy

as describing

Chinese

restaurants in San

Francisco.

Tremendous

diversity

Adapted to

location, climate,

community,

needs

Land trusts

Nonprofits

Resource conservation

districts

City and county

departments (parks &

rec, natural resources)

Special districts

State agencies

Federal agencies

Water districts

Land acquisition

Land stewardship

Outdoor education

Community building

Food production

Water supply

Public health

Habitat restoration

Cultural resources

And 100 other flavors

What we do What they do

Where the magic happens

Examples abound!

Golden Gate National

Parks Conservancy,

National Park Service,

The Presidio Trust

Peninsula Open Space

Trust and Midpeninsula

Regional Open Space

District

Sonoma Land Trust,

Sonoma Regional

Parks, Sonoma Ag

Preservation and Open

Space District

And the list goes on…

• Subtidal, Baylands, Uplands

Habitat Goals projects

(Conservation Lands Network)

• Living Landscape Initiative

• Partnerships between land trusts

and Native tribes

• Buckeye Ranch in Sonoma Co

• 8 acres in El Cerrito purchased by

Trust for Public Land

• Habitat Conservation Plans, Master

plans, Greenprints and Vision

Documents

• And more…

Some examples of how the Bay Area:

PROTECTS THE LAND

• Tamalpais Lands Collaborative

• Urban Releaf in Oakland

• Stewardship 5.0

• Terrestrial Biodiversity Climate

Change Collaboration

• Critical Linkages for wildlife

• Amah Mutsun Land Trust’s

stewardship corp

• Save the Redwoods climate

change research

• And more…

Some examples of how the Bay Area:

STEWARDS THE LAND

• Bay Area Agricultural

Conservationists

• Pie Ranch

• Coyote Valley in the south bay

• Grazing on public lands

• Conservation easements

• Marin Carbon Project

• UC Cooperative Extension

• And more…

Some examples of how the Bay Area:

WORKS THE LAND

• Your Bay Area initiative

• Pogo Park in Richmond

• LandPaths’ Bayer Farm

• Shuttle from Bayview Hunters

Point to the Presidio

• Trails Challenge by East Bay

Regional Park District

• Ridge Trail and Bay Trail

• First Gen Farmers

• And more…

Some examples of how the Bay Area:

CONNECTS PEOPLE TO THE LAND

A network map might look something like this:

There’s an ecosystem

of people,

organizations and

agencies who are

practicing land

conservation in the Bay

Area

There are deep

partnerships that

leverage each

individual’s strengths in

service of a shared

goals

There is more we could

do to partner with

groups who share our

values but who are

different than us

Annie Burke

Deputy Director

[email protected]

510 809 8009 ext 252

www.openspacecouncil.org

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