What Land Conservation in the SF Bay Area Means
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Transcript of What Land Conservation in the SF Bay Area Means
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
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
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
510 809 8009 ext 252
www.openspacecouncil.org
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