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From: CDFW News <noreply+feedproxy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 28, 2019 at 5:50:19 PM PDT
To: cfrench1366@xxxxxxx
Subject: California Fish and Wildlife News
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California Fish and Wildlife News
Wildlife Conservation Board Funds Environmental Improvement and Acquisition
Projects
Posted: 28 Aug 2019 03:12 PM PDT
At its Aug. 28 quarterly meeting, the Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB)
approved approximately $10.7 million in grants to help restore and protect
fish and wildlife habitat throughout California. Some of the 16 approved
projects will benefit fish and wildlife—including some endangered
species—while others will provide public access to important natural
resources. Several projects will also demonstrate the importance of
protecting working landscapes that integrate economic, social and
environmental stewardship practices beneficial to the environment, landowners
and the local community.
Funding for these projects comes from a combination of sources including the
Habitat Conservation Fund and bond measures approved by voters to help
preserve and protect California’s natural resources.
Funded projects include:
A $505,000 grant to Environmental Defense Fund for a cooperative project with
two private landowners to plant up to 325 acres of multi-benefit breeding and
migratory habitat for monarch butterflies in two maturing pecan orchards.
This project is on privately owned land north of Colusa in Colusa County and
southeast of Knights Landing in Yolo County.
A $750,000 grant to the California Association of Resource Conservation
Districts to administer a block grant to Resource Conservation Districts to
implement monarch butterfly and pollinator habitat improvements on privately
owned land in various counties.
A $499,000 grant to the Sacramento County Department of Regional Parks to
enhance public access at the American River Ranch Interpretive Center in the
City of Rancho Cordova in Sacramento County.
A $2 million grant to the John Muir Land Trust for a cooperative project with
the East Bay Regional Park District to acquire approximately 281 acres for
the protection of wildlife habitat and several special-status wildlife
species and to help expand the Bay Area Ridge Trail Corridor near the City of
Martinez in Contra Costa County.
A $1.9 million grant and two U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Habitat
Conservation Plan Land Acquisition grants to the Rivers & Lands Conservancy,
to acquire approximately 34 acres of land in the City of Colton in San
Bernardino County to protect and preserve the Delhi Sands flower-loving fly.
A $390,000 grant to the Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica
Mountains for a cooperative project with Caltrans, the Santa Monica Mountains
Conservancy and the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority, to
improve wildlife’s ability to cross U.S. Highway 101. This project will
restore and enhance an existing wildlife undercrossing approximately nine
miles east of Thousand Oaks in Los Angeles County that was damaged in the
2019 Woolsey Fire.
A $1.6 million grant to the Endangered Habitats Conservancy to acquire in fee
approximately 42 acres of land to protect habitat that implements or helps
establish Natural Community Conservation Plans near the City of San Diego in
San Diego County.
For more information about the WCB please visit www.wcb.ca.gov.
Click to view slideshow.
Photo at top of page: American River Ranch Interpretive Center and its
existing dirt parking lot (in Rancho Cordova), proposed for improvements.
Photo by John Swain and Thomas Bartlett, Image in Flight Co.
Media Contacts:
John Donnelly, WCB Executive Director, (916) 445-0137
Dana Michaels, CDFW Communications, (916) 322-2420
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