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Putting Protected Areas into Practice: Fiscalini Ranch Preserve
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<p class="MsoNormal">Land trusts, also known as land conservancies, are nonprofit organizations that permanently conserve public and private land either through conservation easements or by becoming landowners themselves. Land trusts also manage or restore conserved land. Better known organizations include The Nature Conservancy, Trust for Public Lands, and Ducks Unlimited but there are more than 1,200 land trusts in the US. Roughly 61 million acres, or 3% of the United States’ territory, is protected by land trusts. For comparison, around 620 million acres, or 25% of the US, is under federal protection.</p><p class="MsoNormal">With operations from regional to local, land trusts often form in response to a community’s desire to protect natural, scenic, recreational, historical, or agricultural values. This avenue for protecting land puts restrictions on its use and pledges to protect the land in perpetuity.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Friends of the Fiscalini Ranch Preserve is a land trust in San Luis Obispo County, California, that holds the conservation easement on a 437-acre coastal property in the unincorporated community of Cambria. Fiscalini Ranch Preserve was purchased with public and private funds in 2000 and the title was transferred to the Cambria Community Services District. I will discuss how this land trust's operations are complicated by such common issues as its foundation in trespass, conflicting priorities of the landowner and easement holder, and climate change.</p>
Keywords: land trust, protected areas, land management, nonprofits
Authors:
Kitty Connolly, Friends of the Fiscalini Ranch Preserve; Submitting Author / Primary Presenter
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Putting Protected Areas into Practice: Fiscalini Ranch Preserve
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