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2/1/2013 1 “VALUES IN WORKING RANGELANDS AND RANCHER STEWARDSHIP” …or, “Putting the Rangeland Resolution to Work” Carrie Thompson Regional Coordinator Partners for Fish and Wildlife 11641 Blocker Drive, #110, Auburn CA 95603 [email protected] 530-889-2317
Transcript of “VALUES IN WORKING RANGELANDS AND RANCHER …Ranch, located at the southeastern end of the Carrizo...
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“VALUES IN WORKING RANGELANDS AND RANCHER STEWARDSHIP”
…or, “Putting the Rangeland Resolution to Work”
Carrie ThompsonRegional CoordinatorPartners for Fish and Wildlife
11641 Blocker Drive, #110, Auburn CA [email protected]
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Our Approach
Our approach is simple: engage willing landowners and partners, using direct financial and technical assistance, to conserve and protect fish and
wildlife values on their property.
“Private Lands” work began with wetland restoration adjacent to
National Wildlife Refuges
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Results from 1987 - 2011
Over 44,000 individual private landowner partnerships
3,000+ partnering organizations
Habitat Restored: 1,026,000 acres of wetlands 3,235,000 acres of uplands 9,200 miles of stream
Before restoration
After restoration
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Technical Assistance
Solution-Oriented Habitat Restoration and Conservation Innovation
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50% Cost Share (cash or in-kind)
10 Year Landowner Agreement Required
Generally <$25K from PFW
Limited paperwork, streamlined process
“Sealing the Deal”
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Projects as Diverse as our Partners…
Calaveras CountyRana & Nakagawa Ranches
Project
• Create off-channel watering for cattle
• Install riparian fencing
• Grazing management in wet meadow
• Planting of natives
• Bullfrog management
Francis & Roland Schabram
Keiko & Glenn Nakagawa
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Calaveras CountyRana & Nakagawa Ranches
Results
15 ac, Upland restored
2 ac., Wetlands restored
15 ac, Riparian restored
Cost - $110K
$10K, from Landowners
$50K, from PFW
$ 50K, from NRCS
Mike Dunphy, Galt
Merced CountyKevin Ranch
Project
• Improve grazing capacity, by adding irrigation infrastructure
• Established a managed floodplain (wet periods)
• Riparian fencing
Reyn AkionaLos Banos
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Result
601 ac. of Wetlands restored/enhanced
8.2 miles of Riparian restored
Cost - $84K
- half from PFW
- half from the Landowner
Tehama County
Project
• provide water supply where there’s no water during the summer
• eliminate grazing in the riparian of Clover Creek
• construct three wildlife-friendly livestock troughs
• install water system pump and pipeline
• develop onsite well
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Sheli II
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Results
• 395 ac Wetlands restored
• 6,512 ac. Uplands restored
• 15 miles Riparian restored
Cost - $60K
• $25K, PFW
• $6,537, NRCS
• $28,397, Landowner
Sheli WingoRed Bluff
Project
Technical assistance to design, permit, & implement
Excavate 3,050 ft2 from non-functioning stock pond and repair failed embankment
Revegetate ½-acre upland/riparian habitat with native plants
Fence area for managed grazing to benefit of wildlife
Monterey CountyThe Chualar Ranch
Stock Pond to Ca. Red-legged Frog Pond
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Results
• 101 acres Uplands restored
• .3 ac wetlands restored
Cost - $125,346
• $32,500+, from the Landowner
• $38K, from PFW
• $54,846, from NRCS
Kathleen PollettSalinas
“I am rather proud of the frog pond.”- Landowner, Brian Rianda
Other Programs Looking to
CRCC to Guide Priorities
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The Central Valley ProjectProjects to protect and restore habitats for species impacted by the Central Valley Project.
Conservation Program (Bureau of
Reclamation)
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CVPIA Habitat
Restoration Program
(FWS & BOR)
In 2012, four CA rangeland protection projects received funding:
198 acres of native and non-native grasslands and alkali scrub habitat in Tulare Co.
240 acres of saltbush shrublands/alkali scrub, valley grassland, and valley riparian habitats surrounding the confluence of Silver Creek and Panoche Creek, in Fresno Co.
1,615 acres of valley grassland and scrub-shrub on Stubblefield Ranch, located at the southeastern end of the Carrizo Plain National Monument in Kern and San Luis Obispo Cos.
280 acres of valley grassland and saltbush scrubland habitats on the Martin Ranch, in Fresno Co.
California Foothills Legacy Area
Proposed new conservation easement program
Protect working ranches and the wildlife they support in the “rangeland ring”
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InitialFeedback
Public Scoping & Identify
Issues
Develop Alternatives
Prepare Draft Environmental
Assessment
Prepare Final Environmental
Assessment
Implement Project
The Long Road To Get There…
PublicInput
PublicInput
Summer 11 ~Spring 13
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Putting Our Heads Toge
- reducing the area, “pilotingeasements on a smaller foo
- eliminating the “focal areasfavor of more broad eligibi
- working with partners to credraft easement template thensures that healthy rangecontinue to be managed byranchers whose stewardshcreated those healthy cond
- working one-on-one with ranchers at the local level tcreate the best options
We’re looking for yourfeedback again this Spr
http://www.fws.gov/cno/refuges/planning/CFLA.cfm
Wildlife Rangelands!
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Cowboys Rangelands!
Cows Rangelands!
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The Climate Rangelands!
I My Heritage!
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Put the Resolution to WORK!
